A mathematical analysis of IPT-DMFT

Abstract

We provide a mathematical analysis of the Dynamical Mean-Field Theory, a celebrated representative of a class of approximations in quantum mechanics known as embedding methods. We start by a pedagogical and self-contained mathematical formulation of the Dynamical Mean-Field Theory equations for the finite Hubbard model. After recalling the definition and properties of one-body time-ordered Green's functions and self-energies, and the mathematical structure of the Hubbard and Anderson impurity models, we describe a specific impurity solver, namely the Iterated Perturbation Theory solver, which can be conveniently formulated using Matsubara's Green's functions. Within this framework, we prove under certain assumptions that the Dynamical Mean-Field Theory equations admit a solution for any set of physical parameters. Moreover, we establish some properties of the solution(s).