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# Quantum phase transitions in the bosonic single-impurity Anderson model

• ##### R. Bulla
Physics of Condensed Matter (Impact Factor: 1.28). 07/2006; 56(3):199-203. DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2007-00118-3
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ABSTRACT We consider a quantum impurity model in which a bosonic impurity level is coupled to a non-interacting bosonic bath, with the bosons at the impurity site subject to a local Coulomb repulsion U. Numerical renormalization group calculations for this bosonic single-impurity Anderson model reveal a zero-temperature phase diagram where Mott phases with reduced charge fluctuations are separated from a Bose-Einstein condensed phase by lines of quantum critical points. We discuss possible realizations of this model, such as atomic quantum dots in optical lattices. Furthermore, the bosonic single-impurity Anderson model appears as an effective impurity model in a dynamical mean-field theory of the Bose-Hubbard model. Copyright EDP Sciences/Società Italiana di Fisica/Springer-Verlag 2007

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