Gutzwiller Wave-Function Solution for Anderson Lattice Model: Emerging Universal Regimes of Heavy Quasiparticle States

TL;DR

This paper applies a diagrammatic expansion technique to the Anderson lattice model, revealing universal regimes of heavy quasiparticle states and providing insights into the formation of effective f-bands and electron coherence.

Contribution

It introduces a systematic DE-GWF approach that extends beyond standard Gutzwiller Approximation, capturing finite-dimensional effects and revealing new regimes of heavy fermion behavior.

Findings

Formation of an effective narrow f-band from atomic f-electron states

Identification of three distinct regimes: mixed-valence, Kondo-insulator, and Kondo-lattice

Emergence of non-Landau correlated quantum liquid features

Abstract

The recently proposed diagrammatic expansion (DE) technique for the full Gutzwiller wave function (GWF) is applied to the Anderson lattice model (ALM). This approach allows for a systematic evaluation of the expectation values with GWF in the finite dimensional systems. It introduces results extending in an essential manner those obtained by means of standard Gutzwiller Approximation (GA) scheme which is variationally exact only in infinite dimensions. Within the DE-GWF approach we discuss principal paramagnetic properties of ALM and their relevance to heavy fermion systems. We demonstrate the formation of an effective, narrow $f$-band originating from atomic $f$-electron states and subsequently interpret this behavior as a mutual intersite $f$-electron coherence; a combined effect of both the hybridization and the Coulomb repulsion. Such feature is absent on the level of GA which is equivalent to the zeroth order of our expansion. Formation of the hybridization- and electron-concentration-dependent narrow effective $f$-band rationalizes common assumption of such dispersion of $f$ levels in the phenomenological modeling of the band structure of CeCoIn$_5$. Moreover, we show that the emerging $f$-electron coherence leads in a natural manner to three physically distinct regimes within a single model, that are frequently discussed for 4$f$- or 5$f$- electron compounds as separate model situations. We identify these regimes as: (i) mixed-valence regime, (ii) Kondo-insulator border regime, and (iii) Kondo-lattice limit when the $f$-electron occupancy is very close to the $f$ electrons half-filling, $\langle\hat n_{f}\rangle\rightarrow1$. The non-Landau features of emerging correlated quantum liquid state are stressed.