Time-dependent many-variable variational Monte Carlo method for nonequilibrium strongly correlated electron systems

TL;DR

This paper introduces a time-dependent variational Monte Carlo method with a sophisticated trial wave function to accurately simulate the nonequilibrium dynamics of strongly correlated electron systems, validated through Hubbard model benchmarks.

Contribution

The paper develops a novel t-VMC approach using a generalized pair-product wave function with correlation factors for nonequilibrium electron systems, demonstrating high accuracy and efficiency.

Findings

Accurately reproduces time evolution of physical quantities

Effective in modeling relaxation dynamics after interaction quenches

Validates the method's applicability to strongly correlated electrons

Abstract

We develop a time-dependent variational Monte Carlo (t-VMC) method for quantum dynamics of strongly correlated electrons. The t-VMC method has been recently applied to bosonic systems and quantum spin systems. Here, we propose a time-dependent trial wave function with many variational parameters, which is suitable for nonequilibrium strongly correlated electron systems. As the trial state, we adopt the generalized pair-product wave function with correlation factors and quantum-number projections. This trial wave function has been proven to accurately describe ground states of strongly correlated electron systems. To show the accuracy and efficiency of our trial wave function in nonequilibrium states as well, we present our benchmark results for relaxation dynamics during and after interaction quench protocols of fermionic Hubbard models. We find that our trial wave function well reproduces the exact results for the time evolution of physical quantities such as energy, momentum distribution, spin structure factor, and superconducting correlations. These results show that the t-VMC with our trial wave function offers an efficient and accurate way to study challenging problems of nonequilibrium dynamics in strongly correlated electron systems.