Three-body Fermi liquid corrections for an infinite- U SU( N ) Anderson impurity model

Rok Žitko, J. Bonča

Yoshimichi Teratani, Akira Oguri

Kaiji Motoyama, Yoshimichi Teratani, Kazuhiko Tsutsumi +4 more

We study the three-body Fermi liquid effects in the SU($N$) Anderson impurity model within the strong interaction limit $U\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\infty}$, where the occupation number ${N}_{d}^{}$ of the impurity levels varies over the range of $0<{N}_{d}^{}<1$. The three-body correlations arise among the impurity electrons when the electron-hole symmetry, the time-reversal symmetry, or both are broken by external fields or potentials. They play a key role in low-energy transport, particularly in the next-to-leading-order terms of power expansion with respect to temperature $T$ and bias voltage $eV$. Using the numerical renormalization group approach, we calculate the differential conductance and nonlinear current noise through quantum dots, as well as the thermal conductivity of both quantum dots and magnetic alloys. Specifically, we focus on the SU(2) and SU(4) cases, demonstrating how the three-body correlations evolve in the strong interaction limit across the $1/N$-filling Kondo regime at ${N}_{d}^{}\ensuremath{\simeq}1.0$ and the valence fluctuation regime where the occupation number ${N}_{d}^{}$ varies rapidly with the position ${\ensuremath{\epsilon}}_{d}^{}$ of the impurity levels. We also show that the three-body correlations strongly couple with asymmetries in the tunnel couplings between quantum dots and reservoirs. For $N=4$, this coupling significantly affects the order ${(eV)}^{3}$ nonlinear current through the quarter-filling Kondo state, where the electron-hole symmetry is broken. In particular, in the $U\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\infty}$ limit, the expansion coefficients exhibit clear plateau structures associated with the Kondo effect at ${N}_{d}^{}\ensuremath{\simeq}1.0$. Our formulation and analysis pave the way for deducing the three-body correlations from the low-energy experiments on the next-to-leading-order transport.

Edward Perepelitsky

In this work, we describe the simplifications to the Extremely Correlated Fermi Liquid Theory (ECFL) \\cite{ECFL, Monster} which occur in the limit of infinite spatial dimensions. In particular, we show that the single-particle electron Green's function G(k) can be written in terms of two momentum-independent self-energies. Moreover, we elucidate the nature of the ECFL \\lambda expansion in the limit of infinite dimensions and carry out this expansion explicitly to O(\\lambda^2). Additionally, we demonstrate the vanishing of vertex corrections to the optical conductivity in general and to each order in \\lambda in the limit of infinite dimensions. We generalize the ECFL formalism to the infinite-U Anderson impurity model (AIM) , and demonstrate a Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (DMFT) like mapping between the ECFL objects of the infinite-dimensional t-J model and the infinite-U AIM, and show that this mapping holds to each order in \\lambda. We compute the spectral function for the AIM to O (\\lambda^2) and make comparisons with results obtained through Numerical Renormalization Group (NRG) computations. Finally, we develop a novel formalism for the high-temperature expansion of dynamical correlation functions in the infinite-U Hubbard model which is more efficient than any used previously and gives results for an arbitrary number of spin species. We use it to calculate the single-particle Green's function G(k) to fourth order in (\\beta t) for m spin-species on a d-dimensional hypercube.

Qimiao Si A

Qimiao Si A, Gabriel Kotliar

We study an extended Hubbard model in the limit of infinite dimensions and its zero-dimensional counterpart, a generalized asymmetric Anderson model. In the impurity model we find three kinds of mixed valence states: (a) the usual strong-coupling state in which a resonance forms at the Fermi level; (b) a weak-coupling state in which neither the impurity spin nor the impurity charge degrees of freedom are quenched; and (c) an intermediate-coupling state where the spin but not the charge degree of freedom is quenched. The corresponding phases of the extended Hubbard model in infinite dimensions are (a) a Fermi liquid; (b) a non-Fermi-liquid state with incoherent charge and spin excitations; and (c) a non-Fermi-liquid state with incoherent charge but coherent spin excitations. The non-Fermi-liquid phases are incoherent metallic states with vanishing quasiparticle residue, self-similar local correlation functions, and asymptotically decoupled charge and spin excitations. The non-Fermi-liquid phases occur for a wide range of parameters.