Multi-orbital dynamical mean-field theory with a complex-time solver

2025/12/29 by Yu, Yang, Zhang, Lei, Gull, Emanuel +2
#FOS: Physical sciences #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2512.23237

Abstract

We present the combination of a complex-time tensor-network impurity solver with an analytic continuation scheme based on exponential fitting as an efficient framework for single and multi-orbital dynamical mean-field calculations. By performing time-evolution along a complex-time contour, the approach balances computational cost with the difficulty of spectral recovery, offering greater flexibility than methods confined to the real or imaginary axis. By complementing the complex-time evolution with an exponential fitting scheme, we faithfully extract real-time information at negligible cost. The resulting method obtains high-resolution spectra at a significantly lower computational cost than real-time evolution, offering a promising tool for ab initio studies of strongly correlated materials.

Citations

• Compact representation and long-time extrapolation of real-time data for quantum systems
• Spectroscopy and complex-time correlations using minimally entangled typical thermal states

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