Extraction of Spectra in the Shell Model Monte Carlo Method Using Imaginary-Time Correlation Matrices

Alhassid, Y.; Bonett-Matiz, M.; Gilbreth, C.N.; Vartak, S.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.182501

Extraction of Spectra in the Shell Model Monte Carlo Method Using Imaginary-Time Correlation Matrices

Dec 31, 2023

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Nuclear energy levels are usually calculated using conventional diagonalization methods in the framework of the configuration-interaction (CI) shell model but these methods are prohibited in very large model spaces. The shell model Monte Carlo (SMMC) method is a powerful technique for calculating thermal and ground-state observables of nuclei in very large model spaces, but it is challenging to extract nuclear spectra in this approach. We present a novel method to extract within SMMC low-lying energy levels for given values of a set of good quantum numbers such as spin and parity. The method is based on imaginary-time correlation matrices (ITCMs) of one-body densities that satisfy asymptotically a generalized eigenvalue problem. We validate the method in a light nucleus that allows comparison with exact diagonalization results of the CI shell-model Hamiltonian. The method is broadly applicable to quantum many-body systems in other disciplines.

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