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A general method for calculating lattice Green functions on the branch cut

Mathematical Physics 2017-10-11 v2 math.MP Computational Physics

Abstract

We present a method for calculating the complex Green function Gij(ω)G_{ij} (\omega) at any real frequency ω\omega between any two sites ii and jj on a lattice. Starting from numbers of walks on square, cubic, honeycomb, triangular, bcc, fcc, and diamond lattices, we derive Chebyshev expansion coefficients for Gij(ω)G_{ij} (\omega). The convergence of the Chebyshev series can be accelerated by constructing functions f(ω)f(\omega) that mimic the van Hove singularities in Gij(ω)G_{ij} (\omega) and subtracting their Chebyshev coefficients from the original coefficients. We demonstrate this explicitly for the square lattice and bcc lattice. Our algorithm achieves typical accuracies of 6--9 significant figures using 1000 series terms.

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@article{arxiv.1706.03083,
  title  = {A general method for calculating lattice Green functions on the branch cut},
  author = {Yen Lee Loh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.03083},
  year   = {2017}
}

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12 pages, 6 figures, 6 tables

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