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Dynamics of screening in photodoped Mott insulators

Golež, Denis ; Eckstein, Martin ; Werner, Philipp

In: Physical Review B, 2015, vol. 92, no. 19, p. 195123

We use a nonequilibrium implementation of extended dynamical mean-field theory in combination with a noncrossing approximation impurity solver to study the effect of dynamical screening in photoexcited Mott insulators. The insertion of doublons and holes adds low-energy screening modes and leads to a reduction of the Mott gap. The coupling to low-energy bosonic modes furthermore opens new...

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On the dangers of partial diagrammatic summations: Benchmarks for the two-dimensional Hubbard model in the weak-coupling regime

Gukelberger, Jan ; Huang, Li ; Werner, Philipp

In: Physical Review B, 2015, vol. 91, no. 23, p. 235114

We study the two-dimensional Hubbard model in the weak-coupling regime and compare the self-energy obtained from various approximate diagrammatic schemes to the result of diagrammatic Monte Carlo simulations, which sum up all weak-coupling diagrams up to a given order. While dynamical mean-field theory provides a good approximation for the local part of the self-energy, including its frequency...

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iQIST : An open source continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo impurity solver toolkit

Huang, Li ; Wang, Yilin ; Meng, Zi Yang ; Du, Liang ; Werner, Philipp ; Dai, Xi

In: Computer Physics Communications, 2015, vol. 195, p. 140–160

Quantum impurity solvers have a broad range of applications in theoretical studies of strongly correlated electron systems. Especially, they play a key role in dynamical mean-field theory calculations of correlated lattice models and realistic materials. Therefore, the development and implementation of efficient quantum impurity solvers is an important task. In this paper, we present an open...

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Accuracy of downfolding based on the constrained random-phase approximation

Shinaoka, Hiroshi ; Troyer, Matthias ; Werner, Philipp

In: Physical Review B, 2015, vol. 91, no. 24, p. 245156

We study the reliability of the constrained random-phase approximation (cRPA) method for the calculation of low-energy effective Hamiltonians by considering multiorbital lattice models with one strongly correlated “target” band and two weakly correlated “screening” bands. The full multiorbital system and the effective model are solved within dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) in a...

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Superconductivity in the two-band Hubbard model

Koga, Akihisa ; Werner, Philipp

In: Physical Review B, 2015, vol. 91, no. 8, p. 085108

We study the two-band Hubbard model in infinite dimensions by solving the dynamical mean-field equations with a strong coupling continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo method and show that an s-wave superconducting state can be stabilized in the repulsively interacting case. We discuss how this superconducting state competes with the metallic and paired Mott states. The effects of the Hund coupling...

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Nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field theory for bosonic lattice models

Strand, Hugo U. R. ; Eckstein, Martin ; Werner, Philipp

In: Physical Review X, 2015, vol. 5, no. 1, p. 011038

We develop the nonequilibrium extension of bosonic dynamical mean-field theory and a Nambu real-time strong-coupling perturbative impurity solver. In contrast to Gutzwiller mean-field theory and strong-coupling perturbative approaches, nonequilibrium bosonic dynamical mean-field theory captures not only dynamical transitions but also damping and thermalization effects at finite temperature. We...

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Field-induced polaron formation in the Holstein-Hubbard model

Werner, Philipp ; Eckstein, Martin

In: EPL (Europhysics Letters), 2015, vol. 109, no. 3, p. 37002

We study the effect of strong DC and pulsed electric fields on a Mott insulating system with coupling to optical phonons. A DC field of the order of the gap induces a metallic state characterized by polaronic features in the gap region and a partially inverted population. In this quasi-steady state, the field-induced doublon-hole production is balanced by a phonon-enhanced doublon-hole...

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Dynamical screening in ${\text{La}}_{2}{\text{CuO}}_{4}$

Werner, Philipp ; Sakuma, Rei ; Nilsson, Fredrik ; Aryasetiawan, Ferdi

In: Physical Review B, 2015, vol. 91, no. 12, p. 125142

We show that the dynamical screening of the Coulomb interaction among Cu-d electrons in high-Tc cuprates is strong and that a proper treatment of this effect is essential for a consistent description of the electronic structure. In particular, we find that ab initio calculations for undoped La2CuO4 in the paramagnetic phase yield an insulator only if the frequency dependence of the Coulomb...

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Competition between Energy-Dependent U and Nonlocal Self-Energy in Correlated Materials: Application of GW+DMFT to SrVO3

Sakuma, R. ; Werner, Philipp ; Aryasetiawan, F.

In: Proceedings of Computational Science Workshop 2014 (CSW2014), 2015, vol. 5, p. -

We describe an implementation of the GW+DMFT method and apply it to calculate the electronic structure of SrVO₃. Our results show that there is a strong competition between the frequency-dependent Hubbard U and the non-local self-energy via the GW approximation. It is crucial to take into account these two aspects in order to obtain an accurate and coherent picture of the...

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Interaction quench in the Holstein model: Thermalization crossover from electron- to phonon-dominated relaxation

Murakami, Yuta ; Werner, Philipp ; Tsuji, Naoto ; Aoki, Hideo

In: Physical Review B, 2015, vol. 91, no. 4, p. 045128

We study the relaxation of the Holstein model after a sudden switch-on of the interaction by means of the nonequilibrium dynamical mean field theory, with the self-consistent Migdal approximation as an impurity solver. We show that there exists a qualitative change in the thermalization dynamics as the interaction is varied in the weak-coupling regime. On the weaker interaction side of this...