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Contents<br />

i<br />

CONTENTS<br />

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1<br />

1. Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />

1.1 Model Hamiltonian for electrons in solids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />

1.2 Hubbard model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />

1.3 t-J and Heisenberg models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />

1.4 Extended Hubbard models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />

1.4.1 Next-nearest neighbor interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />

1.4.2 Peierls distortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />

1.4.3 Ionic potential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />

2. Density-Matrix Renormalization Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23<br />

2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23<br />

2.2 Matrix-Product State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24<br />

2.2.1 MPS, Blocks, and a Superblock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28<br />

2.2.2 Operators in block effective basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />

2.3 Density-Matrix Projection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />

2.4 Infinite-System DMRG algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43<br />

2.5 Finite-System DMRG algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46<br />

2.6 Implementation details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50<br />

2.6.1 Superblock Hamiltonian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51<br />

2.6.2 Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55<br />

2.6.3 Wave-function transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55<br />

2.6.4 Additive quantum numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57<br />

3. Real-time evolution using DMRG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61<br />

3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61<br />

3.2 Early attempts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65<br />

3.3 Adaptive time-dependent DMRG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68<br />

3.4 Time-step targeting adaptive time-dependent DMRG . . . . . . . . . . . . 74<br />

3.4.1 Performing time evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

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