Numerical Renormalization Group Study of Probability Distributions for Local Fluctuations in the Anderson-Holstein and Holstein-Hubbard Models

TL;DR

This paper introduces a numerical renormalization group method to analyze probability densities of local fluctuations in impurity and lattice models, revealing phase-dependent local potential behaviors.

Contribution

It develops a novel approach combining NRG and DMFT to extract local fluctuation distributions and compare phase-specific local potentials in complex electron-phonon systems.

Findings

Probability density of local oscillator displacement calculated for the Anderson-Holstein model.

Effective local potentials derived and compared with semiclassical approximations.

Differences in displacement distributions observed across various phases in the Holstein-Hubbard model.

Abstract

We show that information on the probability density of local fluctuations can be obtained from a numerical renormalisation group calculation of a reduced density matrix. We apply this approach to the Anderson-Holstein impurity model to calculate the ground state probability density $\rho(x)$ for the displacement $x$ of the local oscillator. From this density we can deduce an effective local potential for the oscillator and compare its form with that obtained from a semiclassical approximation as a function of the coupling strength. The method is extended to infinite dimensional Holstein-Hubbard model using dynamical mean field theory. We use this approach to compare the probability densities for the displacement of the local oscillator in the normal, antiferromagnetic and charge ordered phases.