Friday, March 23, 2012

1203.4848 (Yu-Kun Huang et al.)

Accurate computation of low-temperature thermodynamics of quantum spin
chains
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Yu-Kun Huang, Pochung Chen, Ying-Jer Kao
We generalize the conventional transfer-matrix renormalization group (TMRG) method by introducing a series of dual biorthonormal bases for the left and right dominant eigenvectors of the quantum transfer matrix. By biorthonormalizing two reduced set of vectors obtained from the singular-value-decomposition of the reduced density matrix, this biorthonormal TMRG (BTMRG) achieves a significant improvement of numerical stability over conventional TMRG. Numerical simulations on XY and Heisenberg spin-1/2 chains demonstrate that the BTMRG method can reach temperatures at least two orders of magnitude lower than those accessible by conventional TMRG, while retaining the same level of accuracy.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.4848

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