Higher-order Fermi-liquid corrections for an Anderson impurity away from half-filling II: equilibrium properties

TL;DR

This paper investigates the low-energy properties of an Anderson impurity system away from half-filling, deriving higher-order Fermi-liquid corrections for equilibrium properties using Ward identities and diagrammatic analysis.

Contribution

It provides new analytical expressions for the vertex function and self-energy corrections beyond previous Fermi-liquid theories, including $ ext{omega}^2$ and $T^2$ terms, and clarifies diagrammatic cancellations.

Findings

Derived the asymptotic form of the vertex function up to linear order in frequencies.

Expressed the $ ext{omega}^2$ part of the self-energy in terms of the second derivative of the self-energy.

Calculated the $T^2$ correction of the self-energy involving three-body correlation functions.

Abstract

We study the low-energy behavior of the vertex function of a single Anderson impurity away from half-filling for finite magnetic fields, using the Ward identities with careful consideration of the anti-symmetry and analytic properties. The asymptotic form of the vertex function $\Gamma_{\sigma\sigma';\sigma'\sigma}^{}(i\omega,i\omega';i\omega',i\omega)$ is determined up to terms of linear order with respect to the two frequencies $\omega$ and $\omega'$, as well as the $\omega^2$ contribution for anti-parallel spins $\sigma'\neq \sigma$ at $\omega'=0$. From these results, we also obtain a series of the Fermi-liquid relations beyond those of Yamada-Yosida. The $\omega^2$ real part of the self-energy $\Sigma_{\sigma}^{}(i\omega)$ is shown to be expressed in terms of the double derivative $\partial^2\Sigma_{\sigma}^{}(0)/\partial \epsilon_{d\sigma}^{2}$ with respect to the impurity energy level $\epsilon_{d\sigma}^{}$, and agrees with the formula obtained recently by Filippone, Moca, von Delft, and Mora in the Nozi\`{e}res phenomenological Fermi-liquid theory [Phys.\ Rev.\ B {\bf 95}, 165404 (2017)]. We also calculate the $T^2$ correction of the self-energy, and find that the real part can be expressed in terms of the three-body correlation function $\chi_{\uparrow\downarrow,-\sigma}^{[3]} = \partial \chi_{\uparrow\downarrow}/\partial \epsilon_{d,-\sigma}^{}$. We also provide an alternative derivation of the asymptotic form of the vertex function. Specifically, we calculate the skeleton diagrams for the vertex function $\Gamma_{\sigma\sigma;\sigma\sigma}^{}(i\omega,0;0,i\omega)$ for parallel spins up to order $U^4$ in the Coulomb repulsion $U$. It directly clarifies the fact that the analytic components of order $\omega$ vanish as a result of the cancellation of four related Feynman diagrams which are related to each other through the anti-symmetry operation.