Effective low-energy Hamiltonians for interacting nanostructures

Details Effective low-energy Hamiltonians for interacting nanostructures Effective low-energy Hamiltonians for interacting nanostructures

2010-02-12

arxiv.org/abs/1002.2513v1

Phys. Rev. B 82, 155430 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

13 pages

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We present a functional renormalization group (fRG) treatment of trigonal graphene nanodiscs and composites thereof, modeled by finite-size Hubbard-like Hamiltonians with honeycomb lattice structure. At half filling, the noninteracting spectrum of these structures contains a certain number of half-filled states at the Fermi level. For the case of trigonal nanodiscs, including interactions between these degenerate states was argued to lead to a large ground state spin with potential spintronics applications. Here we perform a systematic fRG flow where the excited single-particle states are integrated out with a decreasing energy cutoff, yielding a renormalized low-energy Hamiltonian for the zero-energy states that includes effects of the excited levels. The numerical implementation corroborates the results obtained with a simpler Hartree-Fock treatment of the interaction effects within the zero-energy states only. In particular, for trigonal nanodiscs the degeneracy of the one-particle-states with zero-energy turns out to be very robust against influences of the higher levels. As an explanation, we give a general argument that within this fRG scheme the zero-energy degeneracy remains unsplit under quite general conditions and for any size of the trigonal nanodisc. We furthermore discuss the differences in the effective Hamiltonian and their ground states of single nanodiscs and composite bow-tie-shaped systems.

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