An Explicit Method for Schrieffer-Wolff Transformation

Schrieffer-Wolff transformation is a very important transformation in Quantum Many Body physics. Yet, there isn't an explicit method in the literature to calculate the generator of this unitary transformation directly from the hamiltonian. In this paper we present an explicit method to compute...

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Main Authors Haq, Rukhsan Ul, Bharadwaj, Sachin Satish, Wani, Towseef Ali
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 24.01.2019
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Physics - Strongly Correlated Electrons
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Summary:Schrieffer-Wolff transformation is a very important transformation in Quantum Many Body physics. Yet, there isn't an explicit method in the literature to calculate the generator of this unitary transformation directly from the hamiltonian. In this paper we present an explicit method to compute the generator of the Schrieffer-Wolff transformation in general and then calculate the same for two very important hamiltonians in condensed matter physics, the Single Impurity Anderson model (SIAM) and its lattice generalization , the Periodic Anderson Model (PAM). Our method can be used to carry out the transformation directly from the hamiltonian and the generator of the transformation can be obtained without any recourse to perturbative expansion or intuitive guesswork. In fact here, the full generator is calculated rather than its expansion to first two orders which is usually the case.
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1901.08617