Self-consistent Green functions for the Anderson impurity model

Abstract

We present self-consistent Green-function calculations for the properties of the symmetric Anderson impurity model at zero temperature. A stable method for calculating the spectral density directly on the real frequency axis in the spin-fluctuation limit is described. Results using an approximation to the self-energy, previously termed the fluctuation-exchange approximation, which includes the effects of spin and density fluctuations (within the random-phase approximation) and multiple electron-electron scattering are compared with second-order perturbation-theory calculations. The static spin and charge susceptibilities, calculated in a manner consistent with conservation laws, are compared with the exact results from the Bethe ansatz. We find that the fluctuation-exchange approximation gives a good description of the charge susceptibility over a wide range of interaction strengths and is a great improvement over the self-consistent second-order theory. However, the T-linear coefficient of the specific heat is greatly overestimated by the fluctuation-exchange approximation and this leads to the underestimation of the spin susceptibility. The self-consistent second-order perturbation theory, which underestimates the specific-heat coefficient, predicts a magnetic ground state for sufficiently high interaction strengths.