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Holger Fehske

DMRG Investigation of Stripe Formation in Doped Hubbard Ladders

Using a parallelized density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) code we demonstrate the potential of the DMRG method by calculating ground-state properties of two-dimensional Hubbard models. For 7 × 6, 11 × 6 and 14 × 6 Hubbard ladders with doped holes and cylindrical boundary conditions (BC), open in x-direction and periodic in the 6-leg y-direction, we comment on recent conjectures about the appearance of stripe-like features in the hole and spin densities. In addition we present results for the half-filled 4 ×4 system with periodic BC, advance to the 6 × 6 case and pinpoint the limits of the current approach.

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Hole-doped Hubbard ladders

The formation of stripes in six-leg Hubbard ladders with cylindrical boundary conditions is investigated for two different hole dopings, where the amplitude of the hole density modulation is determined in the limits of vanishing DMRG truncation errors and infinitely long ladders. The results give strong evidence that stripes exist in the ground state of these systems for strong but not for weak Hubbard couplings. The doping dependence of these findings is analysed.

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Stripe formation in doped Hubbard ladders

We investigate the formation of stripes in $7\chunks \times 6$ Hubbard ladders with $4\chunks$ holes doped away from half filling using the density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method. A parallelized code allows us to keep enough density-matrix eigenstates (up to $m=8000$) and to study sufficiently large systems (with up to $7\chunks = 21$ rungs) to extrapolate the stripe amplitude to the limits of vanishing DMRG truncation error and infinitely long ladders. Our work gives strong evidence that stripes exist in the ground state for strong coupling ($U=12t$) but that the structures found in the hole density at weaker coupling ($U=3t$) are an artifact of the DMRG approach.

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Exact Numerical Treatment of Finite Quantum Systems Using Leading-Edge Supercomputers

Using exact diagonalization and density matrix renormalization group techniques a finite-size scaling study in the context of the Peierls-insulator Mott-insulator transition is presented. Program implementation on modern supercomputers and performance aspects are discussed.

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Parallelization strategies for density matrix renormalization group algorithms on shared-memory systems

Shared-memory parallelization (SMP) strategies for density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) algorithms enable the treatment of complex systems in solid state physics. We present two different approaches by which parallelization of the standard DMRG algorithm can be accomplished in an efficient way. The methods are illustrated with DMRG calculations of the two-dimensional Hubbard model and the one-dimensional Holstein-Hubbard model on contemporary SMP architectures. The parallelized code shows good scalability up to at least eight processors and allows us to solve problems which exceed the capability of sequential DMRG calculations.

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