A Quantum Monte Carlo algorithm for non-local corrections to the Dynamical Mean-Field Approximation

Details A Quantum Monte Carlo algorithm for non-local corrections to the Dynamical Mean-Field Approximation A Quantum Monte Carlo algorithm for non-local corrections to the Dynamical Mean-Field Approximation

2001-08-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0108140v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

25 pages, 15 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.64.195130

We present the algorithmic details of the dynamical cluster approximation (DCA), with a quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method used to solve the effective cluster problem. The DCA is a fully-causal approach which systematically restores non-local correlations to the dynamical mean field approximation (DMFA) while preserving the lattice symmetries. The DCA becomes exact for an infinite cluster size, while reducing to the DMFA for a cluster size of unity. We present a generalization of the Hirsch-Fye QMC algorithm for the solution of the embedded cluster problem. We use the two-dimensional Hubbard model to illustrate the performance of the DCA technique. At half-filling, we show that the DCA drives the spurious finite-temperature antiferromagnetic transition found in the DMFA slowly towards zero temperature as the cluster size increases, in conformity with the Mermin-Wagner theorem. Moreover, we find that there is a finite temperature metal to insulator transition which persists into the weak-coupling regime. This suggests that the magnetism of the model is Heisenberg like for all non-zero interactions. Away from half-filling, we find that the sign problem that arises in QMC simulations is significantly less severe in the context of DCA. Hence, we were able to obtain good statistics for small clusters. For these clusters, the DCA results show evidence of non-Fermi liquid behavior and superconductivity near half-filling.

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