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Non-Fermi liquid theory of a compactified Anderson single-impurity model

Condensed Matter 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We consider a version of the symmetric Anderson impurity model (compactified) which has a non-Fermi liquid weak coupling regime. We find that in the Majorana fermion representation, perturbation theory can be conveniently developed in terms of Pfaffian determinants and we use this formalism to calculate the impurity free energy, self energies, and vertex functions. In the second-order perturbation theory, a linear temperature dependence of electrical resistivity is obtained, and the leading corrections to the impurity specific heat are found to behave as TlnTT\ln T. The impurity susceptibilities have terms in lnT\ln T to zero, first, and second order, and corrections of ln2T\ln^2 T to second order as well. The singlet superconducting paired susceptibility at the impurity site, is found to have second-order corrections lnT\ln T, which we interpret as an indication that a singlet conduction electron pairing resonance forms at the Fermi level. When the perturbation theory is extended to third order logarithmic divergences are found in the vertex function Γ0,1,2,3(0,0,0,0)\Gamma_{0,1,2,3}(0,0,0,0). Multiplicative renormalization-group method is then used to sum all the leading order logarithmic contributions, giving rise to a new weak-coupling low-temperature energy scale Tc=Δexp[19(πΔU)2]T_c=\Delta{\rm exp}\left[-\frac{1}{9}\left(\frac{\pi\Delta}{U} \right )^{2}\right]. The scaling equation shows the dimensionless coupling constant UπΔ\frac{U}{\pi\Delta} is increased as the energy scale Δ\Delta reduces. Our perturbational results can be justified only in the regime T>TcT>T_c.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9604048,
  title  = {Non-Fermi liquid theory of a compactified Anderson single-impurity model},
  author = {Guang-Ming Zhang and A. C. Hewson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9604048},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

40 pages, 6 figures, Revtex file, to be published in Phy. Rev. B