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Hartree-Fock based diagonalization: an efficient method for simulating disordered interacting electrons

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-10-31 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We present an efficient numerical method for simulating the low-energy properties of disordered many-particle systems. The method which is based on the quantum-chemical configuration interaction approach consists in diagonalizing the Hamiltonian in an energetically truncated basis build of the low-energy states of the corresponding Hartree-Fock Hamiltonian. As an example we investigate the quantum Coulomb glass, a model of spinless electrons in a random potential interacting via long-range Coulomb interaction. We find that the Coulomb interaction increases the conductance of strongly disordered systems but reduces the conductance of weakly disordered systems.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9809171,
  title  = {Hartree-Fock based diagonalization: an efficient method for simulating disordered interacting electrons},
  author = {Thomas Vojta and Frank Epperlein and Michael Schreiber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9809171},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages, 3 eps figures included, invited talk at Conference on Computational Physics (Granada, Sep 1998)