[工程科技]A class of ansatz wave functions for 1D spin systems and their relation to DMRG.pdf

G¨oteborg-ITP-96-10 A class of ansatz wave functions for 1D spin systems and their relation to DMRG ¨ Stefan Rommer and Stellan Ostlund 6 9 Institute of Theoretical Physics 9 1 Chalmers University of Technology n u J S-41296 G¨oteborg, Sweden 8 2 (February 1, 2008) 1 v 3 1 Abstract 2 6 0 6 We investigate the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) discovered 9 / t by White and show that in the case where the renormalization eventually con- a m - verges to a fixed point the DMRG ground state can be simply written as a d n “matrix product” form. This ground state can also be rederived through a o c : simple variational ansatz making no reference to the DMRG construction. We v i X also show how to construct the “matrix product” states and how to calcu- r a late their properties, including the excitation spectrum. This paper provides details of many results announced in an earlier letter. 75.10.Jm, 75.40.Mg Typeset using REVT X E 1 I. INTRODUCTION After Wilson’s development of the renormalization group (RG) to solve the Kondo problem1 it was believed that RG could be used for other pr