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Operator Lanczos Approach enabling Neural Quantum States as Real-Frequency Impurity Solvers

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2025-12-10 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

To understand the intricate exchange between electrons of different bands in strongly correlated materials, it is essential to treat multi-orbital models accurately. For this purpose, dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) provides an established framework, whose scope crucially hinges on the availability of efficient quantum impurity solvers. Here we present a real-frequency impurity solver based on neural quantum states (NQS) combined with an operator-Lanczos construction. NQS are an asymptotically unbiased variational ground-state ansatz that employs neural networks to capture long-range correlations on complicated graph structures. We leverage this ability to solve multi-orbital impurity problems using a systematically improvable Segmented Commutator Operator-Lanczos (SCOL) construction. Our benchmarks on both the single-orbital Anderson model and the multi-orbital Hubbard-Kanamori impurity Hamiltonian reveal excellent ground-state precision and the capacity to accurately resolve zero temperature spectral functions and self-energies. These results open avenues for extending DMFT to more challenging problems.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2512.08624,
  title  = {Operator Lanczos Approach enabling Neural Quantum States as Real-Frequency Impurity Solvers},
  author = {Jonas B. Rigo and Markus Schmitt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.08624},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures, appendices

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