Operator-Based Truncation Scheme Based on the Many-Body Fermion Density Matrix

Details Operator-Based Truncation Scheme Based on the Many-Body Fermion Density Matrix Operator-Based Truncation Scheme Based on the Many-Body Fermion Density Matrix

2003-07-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0307172v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

22 pages in RevTeX4 format, 22 figures. Uses amsmath, amssymb, graphicx and mathrsfs packages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.69.075112

In [S. A. Cheong and C. L. Henley, cond-mat/0206196 (2002)], we found that the many-particle eigenvalues and eigenstates of the many-body density matrix $\rho_B$ of a block of $B$ sites cut out from an infinite chain of noninteracting spinless fermions can all be constructed out of the one-particle eigenvalues and one-particle eigenstates respectively. In this paper we developed a statistical-mechanical analogy between the density matrix eigenstates and the many-body states of a system of noninteracting fermions. Each density matrix eigenstate corresponds to a particular set of occupation of single-particle pseudo-energy levels, and the density matrix eigenstate with the largest weight, having the structure of a Fermi sea ground state, unambiguously defines a pseudo-Fermi level. We then outlined the main ideas behind an operator-based truncation of the density matrix eigenstates, where single-particle pseudo-energy levels far away from the pseudo-Fermi level are removed as degrees of freedom. We report numerical evidence for scaling behaviours in the single-particle pseudo-energy spectrum for different block sizes $B$ and different filling fractions $\nbar$. With the aid of these scaling relations, which tells us that the block size $B$ plays the role of an inverse temperature in the statistical-mechanical description of the density matrix eigenstates and eigenvalues, we looked into the performance of our operator-based truncation scheme in minimizing the discarded density matrix weight and the error in calculating the dispersion relation for elementary excitations. This performance was compared against that of the traditional density matrix-based truncation scheme, as well as against a operator-based plane wave truncation scheme, and found to be very satisfactory.

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