Physics – Condensed Matter – Other Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2012-01-30
Physics
Condensed Matter
Other Condensed Matter
6 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B
Scientific paper
Extended solids are frequently simulated as finite systems with periodic boundary conditions, which due to the long-range nature of the Coulomb interaction may lead to slowly decaying finite- size errors. In the case of Quantum-Monte-Carlo simulations, which are based on real space, both real-space and momentum-space solutions to this problem exist. Here, we describe a hybrid method which using real-space data models the spherically averaged structure factor in momentum space. We show that (i) by integration our hybrid method exactly maps onto the real-space model periodic Coulomb-interaction (MPC) method and (ii) therefore our method combines the best of both worlds (real-space and momentum-space). One can use known momentum-resolved behavior to improve convergence where MPC fails (e.g., at surface-like systems). In contrast to pure momentum-space methods, our method only deals with a simple single-valued function and, hence, better lends itself to interpolation with exact small-momentum data as no directional information is needed. By virtue of integration, the resulting finite-size corrections can be written as an addition to MPC.
Gaudoin R.
Gurtubay I. G.
Pitarke J. M.
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