A Critical Analysis of the Mean-Field Approximation for the Calculation of the Magnetic Moment in the Friedel-Anderson Impurity Model
arXiv:cond-mat/0508699 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.73.092418
Abstract
It is shown that the calculation of the magnetic moment of a Friedel-Anderson impurity in mean-field theory is unreliable. A class of approximate solutions, which contains the mean-field solution as an element, is expressed in rotated Hilbert space and optimized. The optimal state has considerably lower energy than the mean field solution and requires almost twice the Coulomb exchange U to become magnetic. Since most moment calculations of magnetic impurities, for example the spin-density-functional theory, use the mean-field approximation the resulting magnetic moments have to be critically reexamened.(After publication the reference can be found at "http://physics.usc.edu/~bergmann/") PACS: 75.20.Hr
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