Moments of spectral functions: Monte Carlo evaluation and verification

Details Moments of spectral functions: Monte Carlo evaluation and verification Moments of spectral functions: Monte Carlo evaluation and verification

2005-07-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0507544v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

13 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.72.056709

The subject of the present study is the Monte Carlo path-integral evaluation of the moments of spectral functions. Such moments can be computed by formal differentiation of certain estimating functionals that are infinitely-differentiable against time whenever the potential function is arbitrarily smooth. Here, I demonstrate that the numerical differentiation of the estimating functionals can be more successfully implemented by means of pseudospectral methods (e.g., exact differentiation of a Chebyshev polynomial interpolant), which utilize information from the entire interval $(-\beta \hbar / 2, \beta \hbar/2)$. The algorithmic detail that leads to robust numerical approximations is the fact that the path integral action and not the actual estimating functional are interpolated. Although the resulting approximation to the estimating functional is non-linear, the derivatives can be computed from it in a fast and stable way by contour integration in the complex plane, with the help of the Cauchy integral formula (e.g., by Lyness' method). An interesting aspect of the present development is that Hamburger's conditions for a finite sequence of numbers to be a moment sequence provide the necessary and sufficient criteria for the computed data to be compatible with the existence of an inversion algorithm. Finally, the issue of appearance of the sign problem in the computation of moments, albeit in a milder form than for other quantities, is addressed.

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