Thursday, July 12, 2012

1207.2631 (L. Merker et al.)

Full density matrix numerical renormalization group calculation of
impurity susceptibility and specific heat of the Anderson impurity model
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L. Merker, A. Weichselbaum, T. A. Costi
Recent developments in the numerical renormalization group (NRG) allow the construction of the full density matrix (FDM) of quantum impurity models (see A. Weichselbaum and J. von Delft in Ref. \onlinecite{Weichselbaum2007}) by using the completeness of the eliminated states introduced by F.\, B.\, Anders and A.\, Schiller in Ref. \onlinecite{Anders2005}. While these developments prove particularly useful in the calculation of transient response and finite temperature Green's functions of quantum impurity models, they may also be used to calculate thermodynamic properties. In this paper, we assess the FDM approach to thermodynamic properties by applying it to the Anderson impurity model. We compare the results for the susceptibility and specific heat to both the conventional approach within NRG and to exact Bethe ansatz results. We also point out a subtlety in the calculation of the susceptibility (in a uniform field) within the FDM approach. Finally, we show numerically that for the Anderson model, the susceptibilities in response to a local and a uniform magnetic field coincide in the wide-band limit, in accordance with the Clogston-Anderson compensation theorem.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.2631

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