Ground-State Properties of Quantum Many-Body Systems: Entangled-Plaquette States and Variational Monte Carlo

Details Ground-State Properties of Quantum Many-Body Systems: Entangled-Plaquette States and Variational Monte Carlo Ground-State Properties of Quantum Many-Body Systems: Entangled-Plaquette States and Variational Monte Carlo

2009-05-24

arxiv.org/abs/0905.3898v4

New J. Phys. 11 (2009) 083026

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

5 pages, 2 figures (see also arXiv:0907.4646)

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We propose a new ansatz for the ground-state wave function of quantum many-body systems on a lattice. The key idea is to cover the lattice with plaquettes and obtain a state whose configurational weights can be optimized by means of a Variational Monte Carlo algorithm. Such a scheme applies to any dimension, without any "sign" instability. We show results for various two dimensional spin models (including frustrated ones). A detailed comparison with available exact results, as well as with variational methods based on different ansatzs is offered. In particular, our numerical estimates are in quite good agreement with exact ones for unfrustrated systems, and compare favorably to other methods for frustrated ones.

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