Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2003-05-16
PRB 69, 024301 (2004)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
18 pages, 11 Figures, v2: one typo corrected
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.69.024301
Based on the canonical Lang-Firsov transformation of the Hamiltonian we develop a very efficient quantum Monte Carlo algorithm for the Holstein model with one electron. Separation of the fermionic degrees of freedom by a reweighting of the probability distribution leads to a dramatic reduction in computational effort. A principal component representation of the phonon degrees of freedom allows to sample completely uncorrelated phonon configurations. The combination of these elements enables us to perform efficient simulations for a wide range of temperature, phonon frequency and electron-phonon coupling on clusters large enough to avoid finite-size effects. The algorithm is tested in one dimension and the data are compared with exact-diagonalization results and with existing work. Moreover, the ideas presented here can also be applied to the many-electron case. In the one-electron case considered here, the physics of the Holstein model can be described by a simple variational approach.
der Linden Wolfgang von
Evertz Hans Gerd
Hohenadler Martin
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