Hubbard-U Band-Structure Methods

Details Hubbard-U Band-Structure Methods Hubbard-U Band-Structure Methods

2009-07-06

arxiv.org/abs/0907.1028v1

J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21, 343201 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

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The last decade has seen a large increase in the number of electronic-structure calculations that involve adding a Hubbard term to the local density approximation band-structure Hamiltonian. The Hubbard term is then solved either at the mean-field level or with sophisticated many-body techniques such as dynamical mean field theory. We review the physics underlying these approaches and discuss their strengths and weaknesses in terms of the larger issues of electronic structure that they involve. In particular, we argue that the common assumptions made to justify such calculations are inconsistent with what the calculations actually do. Although many of these calculations are often treated as essentially first-principles calculations, in fact, we argue that they should be viewed from an entirely different point of view, viz., as phenomenological many-body corrections to band-structure theory. Alternatively, they may also be considered to be just a more complex Hubbard model than the simple one- or few-band models traditionally used in many-body theories of solids.

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