Convergence acceleration and stabilization for dynamical-mean-field-theory calculations

Details Convergence acceleration and stabilization for dynamical-mean-field-theory calculations Convergence acceleration and stabilization for dynamical-mean-field-theory calculations

2009-08-05

arxiv.org/abs/0908.0613v1

Phys. Rev. B 80, 125125 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

9 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.80.125125

The convergence to the self-consistency in the dynamical-mean-field-theory (DMFT) calculations for models of correlated electron systems can be significantly accelerated by using an appropriate mixing of hybridization functions which are used as the input to the impurity solver. It is shown that the techniques and the past experience with the mixing of input charge densities in the density-functional-theory (DFT) calculations are also effective in DMFT. As an example, the increase of the computational requirements near the Mott metal-insulator transition in the Hubbard model due to critical slowing down can be strongly reduced by using the modified Broyden's method to numerically solve the non-linear self-consistency equation. Speed-up factors as high as 3 were observed in practical calculations even for this relatively well behaved problem. Furthermore, the convergence can be achieved in difficult cases where simple linear mixing is either not effective or even leads to divergence. Unstable and metastable solutions can also be obtained. We also determine the linear response of the system with respect to the variations of the hybridization function, which is related to the propagation of the information between the different energy scales during the iteration.

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