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Fast and efficient stochastic optimization for analytic continuation

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Feng Bao *
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Yanfei Tang
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Michael S. Summers
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Guannan Zhang
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Clayton Webster
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Scarola, V.
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Thomas Maier
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.94.125149delete
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The analytic continuation of imaginary-time quantum Monte Carlo data to extract real-frequency spectra remains a key problem in connecting theory with experiment. Here we present a fast and efficient stochastic optimization method (FESOM) as a more accessible variant of the stochastic optimization method introduced by Mishchenko et al. [Phys. Rev. B 62, 6317 (2000)], and we benchmark the resulting spectra with those obtained by the standard maximum entropy method for three representative test cases, including data taken from studies of the two-dimensional Hubbard model. We generally find that our FESOM approach yields spectra similar to the maximum entropy results. In particular, while the maximum entropy method yields superior results when the quality of the data is strong, we find that FESOM is able to resolve fine structure with more detail when the quality of the data is poor. In addition, because of its stochastic nature, the method provides detailed information on the frequency-dependent uncertainty of the resulting spectra, while the maximum entropy method does so only for the spectral weight integrated over a finite frequency region. We therefore believe that this variant of the stochastic optimization approach provides a viable alternative to the routinely used maximum entropy method, especially for data of poor quality.
Keywords:
QUANTUM MONTE-CARLO
MAXIMUM-ENTROPY METHOD
DYNAMICAL MEAN-FIELD
MODEL
DIMENSIONS
SYSTEMS
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