Effects of correlated hybridization in the single-impurity Anderson model

Author(s)

Rodrigo Soares Veiga

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Carlos.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC/BT)
• Defense date: 2012-05-31

Examining board members

Valter Luiz Libero; Vivaldo Leiria Campo Júnior; João Vitor Batista Ferreira

• Advisor: Valter Luiz Libero

Abstract

The development of new materials has been playing a fundamental role in the currently technological advances. This improvement is strongly dependent on the theoretical foundations which study the microscopic matter engine, i.e., the way atoms and molecules interact and create distinct configurations, responsible for their macroscopic behavior. Among the interesting materials, there are the dilute magnetic impurity systems. They are constituted by partially filled d or f orbital atoms immersed, for exemple, in nonmagnetic metals; like iron atoms in a copper background. Traditionally, such system has been described by the Kondo and Anderson models, which are, since the sixties, two of the most important models in condensed matter physics. In the present work, we specifically study the single-impurity Anderson model. It is characterized by taking correlation into account when two particles with opposite spins fill the impurity localized energy level. Beyond, by another term in the Hamiltonian, it considers the eletronic hybridization between impurity and conduction band, due their wave functions overlap. In addition to the usual model, we include a different hybridization term, which explicitly depends on localized level occupation number. This new interaction term, which couples hybridization process and correlation effects directy in the Hamiltonian, is named correlated hybridization. Through the exposition of Numerical Renormalization Group technique and its consequent enforcement - the procedure states a transformation in the Hamiltonian, where each step adds an energy scale to the problem and set up an iterative scheme, where a Hamiltonian is numerically diagonalized at each iteration - we analyse effects of correlated hybridization on part of the single-impurity Anderson model physics. In particular, this is done by numerical renormalization group data for the temperature dependence of the impurity contribution to three thermodynamical properties - they are: magnetic susceptibility, specific heat and entropy -, from the top of the conduction band until the Fermi level. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 09/13065-8 - Effets of correlated hibridization in the one impurity Anderson model
• Grantee: Rodrigo Soares Veiga
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master