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arXiv:2010.04613 · Physical review. B./Physical review. B

Local density of states of the interacting resonant level model at zero temperature

Gonzalo Camacho, Peter Schmitteckert, Sam T. Carr

Published Feb 7, 2022• 2 citations
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Abstract

The Anderson single impurity model, including its Kondo limit, can be seen as the hydrogen atom for correlated systems. Its most striking feature is the universal scaling of its low-energy properties governed by the appearance of a single emergent scale, the Kondo temperature ${T}_{K}$. In this work, we demonstrate the emergence of a second independent energy scale in a quantum impurity model, the interacting resonant level model, which is equivalent to the anisotropic Kondo model. We study the local density of states at the impurity site in the ground state (zero temperature limit) of the model. We see collapse of data onto universal curves at low energies, however this is only achieved by defining a second low-energy scale with a different power law dependence on model parameters than the Kondo temperature. We provide an exact expression for this second critical exponent. We also report on a splitting of the central resonance as the interaction strength is increased in the absence of any external magnetic field in the model.

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10.1103/physrevb.105.075116

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The Anderson single impurity model, including its Kondo limit, can be seen as the hydrogen atom for correlated systems. Its most striking feature is the universal scaling of its low-energy properties governed by the appearance of a single emergent scale, the Kondo temperature TK{T}_{K}TK​. In this work, we demonstrate the emergence of a second independent energy scale in a quantum impurity model, the interacting resonant level model, which is equivalent to the anisotropic Kondo model. We study the local density of states at the impurity site in the ground state (zero temperature limit) of the model. We see collapse of data onto universal curves at low energies, however this is only achieved by defining a second low-energy scale with a different power law dependence on model parameters than the Kondo temperature. We provide an exact expression for this second critical exponent. We also report on a splitting of the central resonance as the interaction strength is increased in the absence of any external magnetic field in the model.
We present results of the impurity local density of states of the interacting resonant level model at zero temperature. We concentrate on low-energy properties and predominantly use the numerical renormalisation group technique. As interaction is increased, we find that the resonance peak at zero energy disappears, while two new peaks at finite energy emerge. This is in the absence of any field breaking the resonance. We further show that the height of the spectral function does not scale in the same way as the width, and in fact defines a second distinct exponent. We back up our results with analytic strong-coupling calculations as well as an analytic diagrammatic renormalisation group calculation that rather surprisingly gets the second exponent exactly, even for strong interactions.
The Kondo scale TK{T}_{\mathrm{K}}TK​ for impurity systems is expected to guarantee universal scaling of physical quantities. However, in practice, not every definition of TK{T}_{\mathrm{K}}TK​ necessarily supports this notion away from the strict scaling limit. Specifically, this paper addresses the role of finite bandwidth DDD in the strongly correlated Kondo regime. For this, various theoretical definitions of TK{T}_{\mathrm{K}}TK​ are analyzed based on the inverse magnetic impurity susceptibility at zero temperature. While conventional definitions in that respect quickly fail to ensure universal Kondo scaling for a large range of DDD, this paper proposes an altered definition of TKsc{T}_{\mathrm{K}}^{\mathrm{sc}}TKsc​ that allows universal scaling of dynamical or thermal quantities for a given fixed Hamiltonian. If the scaling is performed with respect to an external parameter that directly enters the Hamiltonian, such as magnetic field, the corresponding TKsc,B{T}_{\mathrm{K}}^{\mathrm{sc}},\mathrm{B}TKsc​,B for universal scaling differs, yet becomes equivalent to TKsc{T}_{\mathrm{K}}^{\mathrm{sc}}TKsc​ in the scaling limit. The only requirement for universal scaling in the full Kondo parameter regime with a residual error of less than 1% is a well-defined isolated Kondo feature with ${T}_{\mathrm{K}}\ensuremath{\lesssim}0.01\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}D$ irrespective of specific other impurity parameter settings. By varying DDD over a wide range relative to the bare energies of the impurity, for example, this allows a smooth transition from the Anderson to the Kondo model.
The local moment approach (LMA) has presented itself as a powerful semianalytical quantum impurity solver (QIS) in the context of the dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) for the periodic Anderson model and it correctly captures the low-energy Kondo scale for the single impurity model, having excellent agreement with the Bethe ansatz and numerical renormalization group (NRG) results. However, the most common correlated lattice model, the Hubbard model, has not been explored well within the LMA+DMFT framework beyond the insulating phase. Here in our work, within the framework we complete the filling-interaction phase diagram of the single band Hubbard model at zero temperature. Our formalism is generic to any particle filling and can be extended to finite temperature. We contrast our results with another QIS, namely the iterated perturbation theory (IPT) and show that the second spectral moment sum rule improves better as the Hubbard interaction strength grows stronger in LMA, whereas it severely breaks down after the Mott transition in IPT. For the metallic case, the Fermi liquid (FL) scaling agreement with the NRG spectral density supports the fact that the FL scale emerges from the inherent Kondo physics of the impurity model. We also show that, in the metallic phase, the FL scaling of the spectral density leads to universality which extends to infinite frequency range at infinite correlation strength (strong coupling). At large interaction strength, the off half-filling spectral density forms a pseudogap near the Fermi level and filling-controlled Mott transition occurs as one approaches the half-filling. As a response property, we finally study the zero temperature optical conductivity and find universal features such as absorption peak position governed by the FL scale and a doping independent crossing point, often dubbed the isosbestic point in experiments.
We study the non‐interacting single‐impurity Anderson model (resonant level model) on a lattice at finite temperature as an illustrative example for an exactly solvable quantum‐mechanical problem, and derive the free energy, various thermodynamic potentials (internal energy, entropy, magnetization), and response functions (specific heat, zero‐field magnetic susceptibility). We calculate the magnetic screening cloud, and derive the corresponding correlation length in one dimension beyond which the correlations decay exponentially. The present results remain qualitatively applicable for the interacting single‐impurity Anderson model when the energy scale Г of the resonant‐level model is replaced by the Kondo scale TK.
We study the competition between Kondo physics and dissipation within an Anderson model of a magnetic impurity level that hybridizes with a metallic host and is also coupled, via the impurity charge, to the displacement of a bosonic bath having a spectral density proportional to ${\ensuremath{\omega}}^{s}$. As the impurity-bath coupling increases from zero, the effective Coulomb interaction between two electrons in the impurity level is progressively renormalized from its repulsive bare value until it eventually becomes attractive. For weak hybridization, this renormalization in turn produces a crossover from a conventional spin-sector Kondo effect to a charge Kondo effect. At particle-hole symmetry, and for sub-Ohmic bath exponents 0<s<10<s<10<s<1, further increase in the impurity-bath coupling results in a continuous zero-temperature transition to a broken-symmetry phase in which the ground-state impurity occupancy ${\stackrel{\ifmmode \hat{}\else \^{}\fi{}}{n}}_{d}$ acquires an expectation value ${⟨{\stackrel{\ifmmode \hat{}\else \^{}\fi{}}{n}}_{d}⟩}_{0}\ensuremath{\ne}1$. The response of the impurity occupancy to a locally applied electric potential features the hyperscaling of critical exponents and $\ensuremath{\omega}∕T$ scaling that are expected at an interacting critical point. The numerical values of the critical exponents suggest that the transition lies in the same universality class as that of the sub-Ohmic spin-boson model. For the Ohmic case s=1s=1s=1, the transition is instead of Kosterlitz-Thouless type. Away from particle-hole symmetry, the quantum phase transition is replaced by a smooth crossover but signatures of the symmetric quantum critical point remain in the physical properties at elevated temperatures and/or frequencies.
Single-particle dynamics of the Anderson impurity model in the presence of a magnetic field H are considered, using a recently developed local moment approach that encompasses all energy scales, field and interaction strengths. For strong coupling in particular, the Kondo scaling regime is recovered. Here the frequency (ω/ω K ) and field ( H /ω K ) dependence of the resultant universal scaling spectrum is obtained in large part analytically, and the field-induced destruction of the Kondo resonance investigated. The scaling spectrum is found to exhibit the slow logarithmic tails recently shown to dominate the zero-field scaling spectrum. At the opposite extreme of the Fermi level, it gives asymptotically exact agreement with results for statics known from the Bethe ansatz. Good agreement is also found with the frequency and field-dependence of recent numerical renormalization group calculations. Differential conductance experiments on quantum dots in the presence of a magnetic field are likewise considered, and appear to be well accounted for by the theory. Some new exact results for the problem are also established.