Modified Pade approach for analytic continuation: Application to the zero-gap Kondo lattice model

Abstract

A modified Pade approach is presented as analytic continuation for numerical methods that evaluate correlation functions in imaginary time. Instead of the direct analytic continuation of the correlation functions, the Pade method is applied for the self-energy that is then used for deriving the Green's functions at real energies. We find that this modified, self-energy Pade approach is more stable and robust against statistical errors compared to the direct way. The characteristics and success of the modified Pade approach are analyzed by actual calculations for the illustrative cases of the non-interacting Anderson lattice and Hubbard model. A zero-gap Kondo lattice model with linearly vanishing conduction electron density of states at the Fermi level is also studied, where we use the modified Pade approach as analytic continuation. We investigate the properties of the Kondo insulating state including the dependence of the insulating gap on the Kondo coupling and coherence effects. Furthermore, we identify two energy scales from dynamic and thermodynamic quantities, that are associated as a direct and an indirect gap in a band hybridization picture.

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