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arXiv:1802.03864 · Physical review. B./Physical review. B

Projective truncation approximation for equations of motion of two-time Green's functions

Peng Fan, Ke Yang, Kou-Han Ma, Ning-Hua Tong

Published Apr 27, 2018• 16 citations
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Abstract

In the equation of motion approach to the two-time Green's functions, conventional Tyablikov-type truncation of the chain of equations is rather arbitrary and apt to violate the analytical structure of Green's functions. Here, we propose a practical way to truncate the equations of motion using operator projection. The partial projection approximation is introduced to evaluate the Liouville matrix. It guarantees the causality of Green's functions, fulfills the time translation invariance and the particle-hole symmetry, and is easy to implement in a computer. To benchmark this method, we study the Anderson impurity model using the operator basis at the level of Lacroix approximation. Improvement over conventional Lacroix approximation is observed. The distribution of Kondo screening in the energy space is studied using this method.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.97.165140

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In this paper, we first develop the projective truncation approximation (PTA) in the Green's function equation of motion (EOM) formalism for classical statistical models. To implement PTA for a given Hamiltonian, we choose a set of basis variables and projectively truncate the hierarchical EOM. We apply PTA to the one-dimensional ϕ^{4} lattice model. Phonon dispersion and static correlation functions are studied in detail. Using one- and two-dimensional bases, we obtain results identical to and beyond the quadratic variational approximation, respectively. In particular, we analyze the power-law temperature dependence of the static averages in the low- and high-temperature limits, and we give exact exponents.