Abstract
We present the calculations of the ground state and lowest excited states of the one-dimensional periodic Anderson Hamiltonian with two electrons per site and arbitrary magnitude of the repulsive interaction . We consider finite cells (up to ) and introduce a new method, using modified periodic boundary conditions, to facilitate comparison of calculations with different . The ground state is found to be a nonmagnetic singlet in all cases. The lowest-energy excitations for adding or subtracting one electron show that the system is insulating and the lowest spin-flip excitations indicate a near instability to antiferromagnetism due to the "nesting" of the Fermi surface in one dimension. The lowest excitations are shown to vary little with and, for , the results agree well with infinite-cell calculations, both for small and for the Kondo-lattice regime. The primary results are the continuous variation from to the Kondo-lattice and mixed-valence regimes and the importance of correlations, which lead to the insulating gap and dispersion in the electronic and spin excitations.
- Received 18 June 1982
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.26.6173
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