Making use of self-energy functionals: The variational cluster approximation
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2014-09-23 v1
Abstract
A pedagogical introduction to the cluster-perturbation theory, the variational cluster approximation and to self-energy-functional theory is given. Some standard applications and the relation to dynamical mean-field theory are discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1407.4065,
title = {Making use of self-energy functionals: The variational cluster approximation},
author = {Michael Potthoff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.4065},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
36 pages, 11 figures, to be published as a chapter of the lecture notes of the Autumn School on Correlated Electrons: DMFT at 25: Infinite Dimensions, 15-19 September 2014, Forschungszentrum Juelich