arXiv · 2610.00128
Utilizing a Perturbative Inverse of the Hamiltonian to Improve Lanczos Diagonalization
Abstract
The use of the shifted inverse Hamiltonian in the Lanczos algorithm is examined. We present a perturbative inverse and demonstrate that the Krylov subspace formed from it is better suited to approximating the ground state wavefunction compared with the Hamiltonian itself. We further demonstrate that the perturbative inverse provides an adequately accurate approximation to the inverse Hamiltonian at second order. Naturally, the quality of the results depend on the quality of the initial guess, here we use the Hartree-Fock, CISD, MP-PT1, and EN-PT1 wavefunctions. Lastly, we examine the scaling of the method where we find that accurate results can be found for similar cost as PT5.
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Jeffrey Keyes, Carlos Jimenez-Hoyos. 2026-09-09. Utilizing a Perturbative Inverse of the Hamiltonian to Improve Lanczos Diagonalization. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.00128
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