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Anderson impurity in a semiconductor

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-02-26 v1

Abstract

We consider an Anderson impurity model in which the locally correlated orbital is coupled to a host with a gapped density of states. Single-particle dynamics are studied, within a perturbative framework that includes both explicit second-order perturbation theory and self-consistent perturbation theory to all orders in the interaction. Away from particle-hole symmetry the system is shown to be a generalized Fermi liquid (GFL) in the sense of being perturbatively connectable to the non-interacting limit; and the exact Friedel sum rule for the GFL phase is obtained. We show by contrast that the particle-hole symmetric point of the model is not perturbatively connected to the non-interacting limit, and as such is a non-Fermi liquid for all non-zero gaps. Our conclusions are in agreement with NRG studies of the problem.

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@article{arxiv.0902.4334,
  title  = {Anderson impurity in a semiconductor},
  author = {Martin R. Galpin and David E. Logan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.4334},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages, 4 figures

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