Published September 1, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

The completeness problem in the impurity Anderson model

  • 1. Instituto de Fisica da, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Av. Litoranea s/n, 24210-346 Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (Brazil)
  • 2. Departamento de Fisica, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Ciudadela Universidad Nacional, Bogota (Colombia)
  • 3. Instituto de Fisica Gleb Wataghin - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Barao Geraldo 13083-970 Campinas-SP, Brasil (BR)

Description

With the recent development of the nanoscopic technology, the impurity Anderson model (AIM) was experimentally realized in quantum dot devices, and there is renewed interest in the study of the Kondo physics of the AIM. Several Green's functions approximations by the equation of motion method (EOM), that incorporates the Kondo effect through a digamma function, have been presented in the literature as an adequate tool to describe, at least qualitatively, the Kondo effect. However, these approximations present several drawbacks: they are no longer valid as the temperature decreases below the Kondo temperature, because the logarithmic divergence of the digamma function makes the spectral density at the chemical potential to vanish, and the Friedel sum rule and the completeness in the occupation numbers are not fulfilled. In this work we present a critical discussion comparing the results of digamma approximations GF with the atomic approach, recently developed by some of us, that satisfy the completeness and the Friedel sum rule. We present results for the density of states, the Friedel sum rule and the completeness

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physb.2007.04.057;
PII
S0921-4526(07)00337-7;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
398
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 446-449
ISSN
0921-4526
CODEN
PHYBE3

Conference

Title
New trends in structural, electronic and magnetic properties of matter
Acronym
Workshop on at the frontiers of condensed matter III
Dates
11-15 Dec 2006
Place
Buenos Aires (Argentina)

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
38106644
Subject category
S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
APPROXIMATIONS; DENSITY; GREEN FUNCTION; IMPURITIES; KONDO EFFECT; QUANTUM DOTS; SIMULATION; SPECTRAL DENSITY; SUM RULES
Descriptors DEC
CALCULATION METHODS; EQUATIONS; FUNCTIONS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SPECTRAL FUNCTIONS

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