Low energy valence photoemission in the Anderson impurity model for Ce compounds

TL;DR

This paper investigates low-energy valence photoemission in Ce compounds using the Anderson impurity model, accounting for dipole matrix elements and scattering effects, providing exact results in the large degeneracy limit and analyzing contributions from 4f and band emissions.

Contribution

It introduces a combined time-evolution and 1/N_f scheme to accurately study low-energy photoemission, including interference effects and scattering potentials, extending beyond the sudden approximation.

Findings

Effects of hole-induced scattering are similar to shake-down in core-level photoemission.

Separate analysis of 4f and band emissions reveals their distinct contributions.

Transition between adiabatic and sudden regimes is characterized in a localized system.

Abstract

The valence level photoemission spectra in the Anderson impurity model for Ce compounds at zero temperature are studied as a function of the photon energy $\omega$. Most of former studies on Ce compounds are based on the sudden approximation, which is valid in high energy region. For the photoemission in the adiabatic limit of low energy region, one should consider the dipole matrix elements and the hole-induced photoelectron scattering potential. We can manage it by combining the time-evolution formalism and the $1/N_f$ scheme in a large $f$-level degeneracy $N_f$. This gives the exact results as $N_f\to\infty$. In view of experiments on the valence photoemission, two contributions of $4f$- and band emissions are mixed. We study the separate $4f$ and band contributions (from Ce $5d$) and total emission including the interference between two on an equal footing with varying the photon energy. In the $4f$-emission case, we also explore the effects of hole-induced scattering potential of the photoelectron with respect to $\omega$. Its effects are found very similar to the core level photoemission in shake down case with a localized charge transfer excitation. Additionally, we examine the adiabatic-sudden transition in valence level photoemission for the present localized system through the simplified two-level model.