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Tensor Network Algorithm to Solve Polaron Impurity Problems
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The polaron problem is a very old problem in condensed matter physics that dates back to the thirties, but still remains largely unsolved today, especially when electron–electron interaction is taken into consideration. The presence of both electron–electron and electron–phonon interactions in the problem invalidates most existing numerical methods, which are either computationally too expensive or simply intractable. The continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo (CTQMC) methods could tackle this problem, but they are only effective on the imaginary-time axis. In this work, we present a method based on tensor networks and the path integral formalism to solve polaron impurity problems. As both the electron and phonon baths can be integrated out via the Feynman–Vernon influence functional in the path integral formalism, our method is free of bath discretization error. It can also flexibly work on imaginary time, Keldysh contour, and L-shaped Kadanoff contour. In addition, our method can naturally resolve several long-existing challenges: (i) non-diagonal hybridization function; (ii) measuring multi-time correlations beyond single-particle Green’s functions. We demonstrate the effectiveness and accuracy of our method with extensive numerical examples against analytic solutions, exact diagonalization, and CTQMC. We also perform full-fledged real-time calculations that have never been done before to our knowledge, which could serve as a benchmarking baseline for future method developments.
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