Magnetic impurities in gapless Fermi systems: perturbation theory

Abstract

We consider a symmetric Anderson impurity model, with a soft-gap hybridization vanishing at the Fermi level with a power law r > 0. Three facets of the problem are examined. First the non-interacting limit, which despite its simplicity contains much physics relevant to the U > 0 case: it exhibits both strong coupling (SC) states (for r < 1) and local moment (LM) states (for r > 1), with characteristic signatures in both spectral properties and thermodynamic functions. Second, we establish general conditions upon the interaction self-energy for the occurence of a SC state for U > 0. This leads to a pinning theorem, whereby the modified spectral function is pinned at the Fermi level for any U where a SC state exists; it generalizes to arbitrary r the familiar pinning condition for the normal r = 0 Anderson model. Finally, we consider explicitly spectral functions at the simplest level: second order perturbation theory in U, which we conclude is applicable for r < 1/2 and r > 1 but not for 1/2 < r < 1. Characteristic spectral features observed in numerical renormalization group calculations are thereby recovered, for both SC and LM phases; and for the SC state the modified spectral functions are found to contain a generalized Abrikosov-Suhl resonance exhibiting a characteristic low-energy Kondo scale with increasing interaction strength.

24 pages, 7 figures, submitted to European Physical Journal B

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