We extend to the periodic Anderson model (PAM) the diagrammatic expansion in cumulants that was employed by Hubbard to study his model of a narrow band of strongly correlated electrons. The PAM is a lattice of localized and strongly correlated electrons with spin one-half and without orbital degeneracy, hybridized with a wide band of uncorrelated conduction electrons. We have extended the model by considering localized electronic states with an arbitrary scheme of energy levels: this extension would be useful to study intermediate valence compounds of Eu or Tm with the present formalism. We give the rules for the diagrammatic ·Calculation of the grand canonical potential and of the Green's functions for the general model: only connected diagrams appear in those calculations and the lattice sums are unrestricted. To generate the cumulant averages it was necessary to employ externai fi.elds e that are Grassmann variables. We liave found a simple way to extend the diagrammatic rules to the e f= O case. The absence of excluded site restrictions, that leads to complicated excluded volume problems in other treatments, and the existence of linked cluster expansions, are features of the cumulant expansion. As an application of the present method, we have calculated the occupation numbers of localized and conduction electrons for the PAM in the limit of infinite Coulomb repulsion (U --+ ao).

The Periodic Anderson Model (PAM) can be studied in the infinite U limit by employing the Hubbard X operators to project out the unwanted states. We have already studied this problem employing the cumulant expansion with the hybridization as perturbation, but the probability conservation of the local states (completeness) is not usually satisfied when partial expansions like the Chain Approximation (CHA) are employed. Here we treat the problem by a technique inspired in the mean field approximation of Coleman's slave-bosons method, and we obtain a description that avoids the unwanted phase transition that appears in the mean-field slave-boson method both when the chemical potential is greater than the localized level Ef at low temperatures (T) and for all parameters at intermediate T.Comment: Submited to Physical Review B 14 pages, 17 eps figures inserted in the tex

Hybrid system composed by a semiconducting nanowire with proximity-induced superconductivity and a quantum dot at the end working as spectrometer was recently used to quantify the so-called degree of Majorana nonlocality [Deng et al., Phys.Rev.B, 98, 085125 (2018)]. Here we demonstrate that spin-resolved density of states of the dot responsible for zero-bias conductance peak strongly depends on the separation between the Majorana bound states (MBSs) and their relative couplings with the dot and investigate how the charging energy affects the spectrum of the system in the distinct scenarios of Majorana nonlocality (topological quality). Our findings suggest that spinresolved spectroscopy of the local density of states of the dot can be used as a powerful tool for discriminating between different scenarios of the emergence of zero-bias conductance peak. arXiv:1811.10305v2 [cond-mat.mes-hall]

The transport through a quantum wire with a side coupled quantum dot is studied. We use the X-boson treatment for the Anderson single impurity model in the limit of U = ∞. The conductance presents a minimum for values of T = 0 in the crossover from mixed-valence to Kondo regime due to a destructive interference between the ballistic channel associated with the quantum wire and the quantum dot channel. We obtain the experimentally studied Fano behavior of the resonance. The conductance as a function of temperature exhibits a logarithmic and universal behavior, that agrees with recent experimental results.

The approximate Green's functions of the localized electrons, obtained by the cumulant expansion of the periodic Anderson model in the limit of infinite Coulomb repulsion, do not satisfy completeness even for the simplest families of diagrams, like the chain approximation. The idea that employing -derivable approximations would solve this difficulty is shown to be false by proving that the chain approximation is -derivable and does not satisfy completeness. After finding a family of diagrams with Green's functions that satisfy completeness, we put forward a conjecture that shows how to select families of diagrams with this property.