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Orbital selective and tunable Kondo effect of magnetic adatoms on graphene: Correlated electronic structure calculations
We have studied the effect of dynamical correlations on the electronic
structure of single Co adatoms on graphene monolayers with a recently developed
novel method for nanoscopic materials that combines density functional
calculations with a fully dynamical treatment of the strongly interacting
3d-electrons. The coupling of the Co 3d-shell to the graphene substrate and
hence the dynamic correlations are strongly dependent on the orbital symmetry
and the system parameters (temperature, distance of the adatom from the
graphene sheet, gate voltage). When the Kondo effect takes place, we find that
the dynamical correlations give rise to strongly temperature-dependent peaks in
the Co 3d-spectra near the Fermi level. Moreover, we find that the Kondo effect
can be tuned by the application of a gate voltage. It turns out that the
position of the Kondo peaks is pinned to the Dirac points of graphene rather
than to the chemical potential.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figure
Evolution of photoemission spectral functions in doped transition metal oxides
We discuss the experimental photoemission and inverse photoemission of early
transition metal oxides, in the light of the dynamical mean field theory of
correlated electrons which becomes exact in the limit of infinite dimensions.
We argue that a comprehensive description of the experimental data requires
spatial inhomogeneities and present a calculation of the evolution of the
spectral function in an inhomogenous system with various degrees of
inhomogeneity. We also point out that comparaison of experimental results and
large d calculations require that the degree of correlation and disorder is
larger in the surface than in the bulk
Many-Body Approximation Scheme Beyond GW
We explore the combination of the extended dynamical mean field theory
(EDMFT) with the GW approximation (GWA); the former sums the local
contributions to the self-energies to infinite order in closed form and the
latter handles the non-local ones to lowest order. We investigate the different
levels of self-consistency that can be implemented within this method by
comparing to the exact QMC solution of a finite-size model Hamiltonian. We find
that using the EDMFT solution for the local self-energies as input to the GWA
for the non-local self-energies gives the best result.Comment: 4 pages, 8 figure
Spectral functions in doped transition metal oxides
We present experimental photoemission and inverse photoemission spectra of
SrTiO representing electron doped systems. Photoemission
spectra in presence of electron doping exhibit prominent features arising from
electron correlation effects, while the inverse photoemssion spectra are
dominated by spectral features explainable within single-particle approaches.
We show that such a spectral evolution in chemically doped correlated systems
is not compatible with expectations based on Hubbard or any other similar
model. We present a new theoretical approach taking into account the
inhomogeneity of the `real' system which gives qualitatively different results
compared to standard `homogeneous' models and is in quantitative agreement with
experiments.Comment: 10 pages; 1 tex file+4 postscript files (to appear in Europhysics
Letters
Fermi arcs and the hidden zeros of the Green's function in the pseudogap state
We investigate the low energy properties of a correlated metal in the
proximity of a Mott insulator within the Hubbard model in two dimensions. We
introduce a new version of the Cellular Dynamical Mean Field Theory using
cumulants as the basic irreducible objects. These are used for re-constructing
the lattice quantities from their cluster counterparts. The zero temperature
one particle Green's function is characterized by the appearance of lines of
zeros, in addition to a Fermi surface which changes topology as a function of
doping. We show that these features are intimately connected to the opening of
a pseudogap in the one particle spectrum and provide a simple picture for the
appearance of Fermi arcs.Comment: revised version; 5 pages, 3 figure
Disorder Screening in Strongly Correlated Systems
Electron-electron interactions generally reduce the low temperature
resistivity due to the screening of the impurity potential by the electron gas.
In the weak-coupling limit, the magnitude of this screening effect is
determined by the thermodynamic compressibility which is proportional to the
inverse screening length. We show that when strong correlations are present,
although the compressibility is reduced, the screening effect is nevertheless
strongly enhanced. This phenomenon is traced to the same non-perturbative
Kondo-like processes that lead to strong mass enhancements, but which are
absent in weak coupling approaches. We predict metallicity to be strongly
stabilized in an intermediate regime where the interactions and the disorder
are of comparable magnitude.Comment: 4+epsilon pages, 3 figure
Phase diagram, energy scales and nonlocal correlations in the Anderson lattice model
We study the Anderson lattice model with one f-orbital per lattice site as
the simplest model which describes generic features of heavy fermion materials.
The resistivity and magnetic susceptibility results obtained within dynamical
mean field theory (DMFT) for a nearly half-filled conduction band show the
existence of a single energy scale which is similar to the single ion
Kondo temperature . To determine the importance of inter-site
correlations, we have also solved the model within cellular DMFT (CDMFT) with
two sites in a unit cell. The antiferromagnetic region on the phase diagram is
much narrower than in the single-site solution, having a smaller critical
hybridization and N\'eel temperature . At temperatures above
the nonlocal correlations are small, and the DMFT paramagnetic solution is in
this case practically exact, which justifies the ab initio LDA+DMFT approach in
theoretical studies of heavy fermions. Strong inter-site correlations in the
CDMFT solution for , however, indicate that they have to be properly
treated in order to unravel the physical properties near the quantum critical
point.Comment: 10 page
Interplane charge dynamics in a valence-bond dynamical mean-field theory of cuprate superconductors
We present calculations of the interplane charge dynamics in the normal state
of cuprate superconductors within the valence-bond dynamical mean-field theory.
We show that by varying the hole doping, the c-axis optical conductivity and
resistivity dramatically change character, going from metallic-like at large
doping to insulating-like at low-doping. We establish a clear connection
between the behavior of the c-axis optical and transport properties and the
destruction of coherent quasiparticles as the pseudogap opens in the antinodal
region of the Brillouin zone at low doping. We show that our results are in
good agreement with spectroscopic and optical experiments.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
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