• 文献标题:   Many-Body Effects in FeN4 Center Embedded in Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ALLERDT A, HAFIZ H, BARBIELLINI B, BANSIL A, FEIGUIN AE
  • 作者关键词:   dft beyond dft method, density matrix renormalization group, electronic correlations degenerate ground state, porphyrin, transition metal, graphene
  • 出版物名称:   APPLIED SCIENCESBASEL
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  • 通讯作者地址:   Northeastern Univ
  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.3390/app10072542
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

We introduce a computational approach to study porphyrin-like transition metal complexes, bridging density functional theory and exact many-body techniques, such as the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG). We first derive a multi-orbital Anderson impurity Hamiltonian starting from first principles considerations that qualitatively reproduce generalized gradient approximation (GGA)+U results when ignoring inter-orbital Coulomb repulsion U and Hund exchange J. An exact canonical transformation is used to reduce the dimensionality of the problem and make it amenable to DMRG calculations, including all many-body terms (both intra- and inter-orbital), which are treated in a numerically exact way. We apply this technique to FeN4 centers in graphene and show that the inclusion of these terms has dramatic effects: as the iron orbitals become single occupied due to the Coulomb repulsion, the inter-orbital interaction further reduces the occupation, yielding a non-monotonic behavior of the magnetic moment as a function of the interactions, with maximum polarization only in a small window at intermediate values of the parameters. Furthermore, U changes the relative position of the peaks in the density of states, particularly on the iron d(z2) orbital, which is expected to affect the binding of ligands greatly.