Analytic continuation of multipoint correlation functions

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Autori principali: Ge, Anxiang, Halbinger, Johannes, Lee, Seung-Sup B., von Delft, Jan, Kugler, Fabian B.
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author Ge, Anxiang
Halbinger, Johannes
Lee, Seung-Sup B.
von Delft, Jan
Kugler, Fabian B.
author_facet Ge, Anxiang
Halbinger, Johannes
Lee, Seung-Sup B.
von Delft, Jan
Kugler, Fabian B.
contents Conceptually, the Matsubara formalism (MF), using imaginary frequencies, and the Keldysh formalism (KF), formulated in real frequencies, give equivalent results for systems in thermal equilibrium. The MF has less complexity and is thus more convenient than the KF. However, computing dynamical observables in the MF requires the analytic continuation from imaginary to real frequencies. The analytic continuation is well-known for two-point correlation functions (having one frequency argument), but, for multipoint correlators, a straightforward recipe for deducing all Keldysh components from the MF correlator had not been formulated yet. Recently, a representation of MF and KF correlators in terms of formalism-independent partial spectral functions and formalism-specific kernels was introduced by Kugler, Lee, and von Delft [Phys. Rev. X 11, 041006 (2021)]. We use this representation to formally elucidate the connection between both formalisms. We show how a multipoint MF correlator can be analytically continued to recover all partial spectral functions and yield all Keldysh components of its KF counterpart. The procedure is illustrated for various correlators of the Hubbard atom.
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Ge, Anxiang
Halbinger, Johannes
Lee, Seung-Sup B.
von Delft, Jan
Kugler, Fabian B.
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Conceptually, the Matsubara formalism (MF), using imaginary frequencies, and the Keldysh formalism (KF), formulated in real frequencies, give equivalent results for systems in thermal equilibrium. The MF has less complexity and is thus more convenient than the KF. However, computing dynamical observables in the MF requires the analytic continuation from imaginary to real frequencies. The analytic continuation is well-known for two-point correlation functions (having one frequency argument), but, for multipoint correlators, a straightforward recipe for deducing all Keldysh components from the MF correlator had not been formulated yet. Recently, a representation of MF and KF correlators in terms of formalism-independent partial spectral functions and formalism-specific kernels was introduced by Kugler, Lee, and von Delft [Phys. Rev. X 11, 041006 (2021)]. We use this representation to formally elucidate the connection between both formalisms. We show how a multipoint MF correlator can be analytically continued to recover all partial spectral functions and yield all Keldysh components of its KF counterpart. The procedure is illustrated for various correlators of the Hubbard atom.
title Analytic continuation of multipoint correlation functions
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11389