SCF framework, HF stability and RPA correlation for Jordan-Wigner-transformed spin Hamiltonians on arbitrary coupling topologies

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Main Authors: Tabrizi, Shadan Ghassemi, Henderson, Thomas M., Kühne, Thomas D., Scuseria, Gustavo E.
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author Tabrizi, Shadan Ghassemi
Henderson, Thomas M.
Kühne, Thomas D.
Scuseria, Gustavo E.
author_facet Tabrizi, Shadan Ghassemi
Henderson, Thomas M.
Kühne, Thomas D.
Scuseria, Gustavo E.
contents Mapping spins to fermions via the Jordan-Wigner (JW) transformation can render mean-field (Hartree-Fock, HF) descriptions effective for strongly correlated spin systems. As established in recent work, the application of such approaches is not limited by the nonlocal structure of JW strings or by site ordering, because string operators can be absorbed into Thouless rotations of a Slater determinant, and the variational optimization of a unitary Lie-Algebraic similarity transformation removes any ordering dependence. Leveraging these ideas, we develop a self-consistent field (SCF) scheme that expresses the mean-field energy as a functional of the single-particle density matrix, providing an alternative to gradient-based optimization of Thouless parameters. We derive the analytic orbital Hessian to diagnose HF stability and compute ground-state correlation energy through the random-phase approximation (RPA). Benchmark results for the XXZ and J1-J2 model on one- and two-dimensional lattices demonstrate that RPA significantly improves mean-field accuracy.
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spellingShingle SCF framework, HF stability and RPA correlation for Jordan-Wigner-transformed spin Hamiltonians on arbitrary coupling topologies
Tabrizi, Shadan Ghassemi
Henderson, Thomas M.
Kühne, Thomas D.
Scuseria, Gustavo E.
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mapping spins to fermions via the Jordan-Wigner (JW) transformation can render mean-field (Hartree-Fock, HF) descriptions effective for strongly correlated spin systems. As established in recent work, the application of such approaches is not limited by the nonlocal structure of JW strings or by site ordering, because string operators can be absorbed into Thouless rotations of a Slater determinant, and the variational optimization of a unitary Lie-Algebraic similarity transformation removes any ordering dependence. Leveraging these ideas, we develop a self-consistent field (SCF) scheme that expresses the mean-field energy as a functional of the single-particle density matrix, providing an alternative to gradient-based optimization of Thouless parameters. We derive the analytic orbital Hessian to diagnose HF stability and compute ground-state correlation energy through the random-phase approximation (RPA). Benchmark results for the XXZ and J1-J2 model on one- and two-dimensional lattices demonstrate that RPA significantly improves mean-field accuracy.
title SCF framework, HF stability and RPA correlation for Jordan-Wigner-transformed spin Hamiltonians on arbitrary coupling topologies
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13078