On the Truncation Error of Numerical Renormalization Group
Using the recently developed exact numerical renormalization group (NRG) method, we analyse the NRG truncation errors $δχ$ of the local magnetic susceptibility and $δF$ of the free energy for the spin-boson model (SBM). We find that for temperatures higher than a crossover temperature $T_{cr}$, as the number of kept states $M$ increases, both errors have oscillations with quasi period $\ln{M}/\ln{N_b}$ and the envelopes decrease as $ε_{tr}=Λ^{-\ln{M}/\ln{N_b}}$ ($N_b$ is the number of boson states used for each bath site). For $T \ll T_{cr}$, they decrease slower than the power law. We extract that $T_{cr} = T^{\ast} ε_{tr}$, with $T^{\ast}$ being the crossover energy scale between the declocalized and the critical fixed points of SBM. The same rule applies to $δχ$ and $δF$ calculated from the full density matrix NRG method and is expected to hold for general impurity models, allowing accurate removal of NRG truncation errors in static quantities at high temperatures.