Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Perturbation theory of the electronic properties in strongly correlated solids

M. M. Steiner, Robert C. Albers, Douglas J. Scalapino, Lu Jeu Sham

Published Jan 15, 1991• 43 citations

Abstract

In an attempt to obtain a better description than the local-density approximation (LDA) for the electronic structure of realistic narrow-band systems, we have studied a perturbation-theory method for the self-energy and have tested it on the electronic properties of the periodic one-dimensional Anderson model. For a number of models we have calculated a wide range of properties such as quasiparticle energies, spectral densities, reduced hybridizations, and various magnetic correlation functions. For two different models we were able to compare with Monte Carlo results and found good agreement. In general, we have obtained a description of narrow-band systems that is more reasonable than the one given by the LDA.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.43.1637

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