Browsing by Author "Wentzell, Nils"

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    Conductivity in the Square Lattice Hubbard Model at High Temperatures: Importance of Vertex Corrections
    Vučičević, Jakša; Kokalj, Jure; Žitko, Rok; Wentzell, Nils; Tanasković, Darko; Mravlje, Jernej
    Recent experiments on cold atoms in optical lattices allow for a quantitative comparison of the measurements to the conductivity calculations in the square lattice Hubbard model. However, the available calculations do not give consistent results, and the question of the exact solution for the conductivity in the Hubbard model remained open. In this Letter, we employ several complementary state-of-the-art numerical methods to disentangle various contributions to conductivity and identify the best available result to be compared to experiment. We find that, at relevant (high) temperatures, the self-energy is practically local, yet the vertex corrections remain rather important, contrary to expectations. The finite-size effects are small even at the lattice size 4×4, and the corresponding Lanczos diagonalization result is, therefore, close to the exact result in the thermodynamic limit.
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    Practical consequences of the Luttinger-Ward functional multivaluedness for cluster DMFT methods
    Vučičević, Jakša; Wentzell, Nils; Ferrero, Michel; Parcollet, Olivier
    The Luttinger-Ward functional (LWF) has been a starting point for conserving approximations in many-body physics for 50 years. The recent discoveries of its multivaluedness and the associated divergence of the two-particle irreducible vertex function Γ have revealed an inherent limitation of this approach. Here we demonstrate how these undesirable properties of the LWF can lead to a failure of computational methods based on an approximation of the LWF. We apply the nested cluster scheme (NCS) to the Hubbard model and observe the existence of an additional stationary point of the self-consistent equations, associated with an unphysical branch of the LWF. In the strongly correlated regime, starting with the first divergence of Γ, this unphysical stationary point becomes attractive in the standard iterative technique used to solve DMFT. This leads to an incorrect solution, even in the large cluster size limit, for which we discuss diagnostics.