Anderson impurities in gapless hosts: comparison of renormalization group and local moment approaches

Details Anderson impurities in gapless hosts: comparison of renormalization group and local moment approaches Anderson impurities in gapless hosts: comparison of renormalization group and local moment approaches

1999-09-07

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9909101v1

J. Phys.: Condens. Matter (2000) 12 4899

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

26 pages, 14 figures, submitted for publication

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-8984/12/23/302

The symmetric Anderson impurity model, with a soft-gap hybridization vanishing at the Fermi level with power law r > 0, is studied via the numerical renormalization group (NRG). Detailed comparison is made with predictions arising from the local moment approach (LMA), a recently developed many-body theory which is found to provide a remarkably successful description of the problem. Results for the `normal' (r = 0) impurity model are obtained as a specific case. Particular emphasis is given both to single-particle excitation dynamics, and to the transition between the strong coupling (SC) and local moment (LM) phases of the model. Scaling characteristics and asymptotic behaviour of the SC/LM phase boundaries are considered. Single-particle spectra are investigated in some detail, for the SC phase in particular. Here, the modified spectral functions are found to contain a generalized Kondo resonance that is ubiquitously pinned at the Fermi level; and which exhibits a characteristic low-energy Kondo scale that narrows progressively upon approach to the SC->LM transition, where it vanishes. Universal scaling of the spectra as the transition is approached thus results. The scaling spectrum characteristic of the normal Anderson model is recovered as a particular case, and is captured quantitatively by the LMA. In all cases the r-dependent scaling spectra are found to possess characteristic low-energy asymptotics, but to be dominated by generalized Doniach-Sunjic tails, in agreement with LMA predictions.

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