New Density Matrix Renormalization Group Approaches for Strongly Correlated Systems Coupled with Large Environments

29 May 2023, Version 1
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Abstract

Thanks to the high compression of the matrix product state (MPS) form of the wave function and the efficient site-by-site iterative sweeping optimization algorithm, den- sity matrix normalization group (DMRG) and its time-dependent variant (TD-DMRG) have been established as powerful computational tools in accurately simulating the elec- tronic structure and quantum dynamics of strongly correlated molecules with a large number (10 1−2 ) of quantum degrees of freedom (active orbitals or vibrational modes). However, the quantitative characterization of the quantum many-body behaviors of realistic strongly correlated systems requires a further consideration of the interaction between the embedded active subsystem and the remaining correlated environment, e.g., a larger number (10 2−3 ) of external orbitals in electronic structure, or infinite condensed-phase phononic modes in nucleus dynamics. To this end, we introduced three new post-DMRG and TD-DMRG approaches, namely (1) DMRG2sCI-MRCI and DMRG2sCI-ENPT by the reconstruction of selected configuration interaction (sCI) type of compact reference function from DMRG coefficients and the use of externally contracted MRCI (multi-reference configuration interaction) and Epstein-Nesbet per- turbation theory (ENPT), without recourse to the expensive high order n-electron reduced density matrices (n-RDMs). (2) DMRG combined with RR-MRCI (renormal- ized residue-based MRCI) which improves the computational accuracy and efficiency of internally contracted (ic) MRCI by renormalizing the contracted bases with small-sized buffer environment(s) of few external orbitals as probes based on quantum informa- tion theory. (3) HM (hierarchical mapping)-TD-DMRG in which a large environment is reduced to a small number of renormalized environmental modes (which accounts for the most vital system-environment interactions) through stepwise mapping trans- formation. These advances extend the efficacy of highly accurate DMRG/TD-DMRG computations to the quantitative characterization of the electronic structure and quan- tum dynamics in realistic strongly correlated systems coupled with large environments, and are reviewed in this paper.

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