Hartree-Fock Density-Matrix Renormalization Group for Very Long Chains
Abstract
We formulate Hartree--Fock as a density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) sweep of a single Slater determinant, assuming a density--density electron--electron interaction. We compress the occupied state and long-range interaction separately, reducing each sweep step to a small local Fock problem. Exchange is retained throughout. Uniform antiferromagnetic hydrogen chains provide an almost ideal setting for this approach, while retaining the Coulomb interaction and its 1/r tail. We initialize and converge a chain of 100,000 electrons in 1.8 million spatial basis functions in about two hours on a 64-GB Mac mini, using less than a third of its memory. The work per sweep is nearly proportional to chain length, and the number of sweeps needed for convergence changes little from 1000 to 100,000 atoms. DMRG's compression of states and environments thus makes large HF calculations with long-range Hartree and exchange practical on an ordinary desktop computer.
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BibTeX
@misc{white2026hartreefock,
title = {{Hartree-Fock Density-Matrix Renormalization Group for Very Long Chains}},
author = {Steven R. White},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.16587},
eprint = {2609.16587},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16587},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Hartree-Fock Density-Matrix Renormalization Group for Very Long Chains
AU - Steven R. White
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/15
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.16587
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16587
AB - We formulate Hartree--Fock as a density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) sweep of a single Slater determinant, assuming a density--density electron--electron interaction. We compress the occupied state and long-range interaction separately, reducing each sweep step to a small local Fock problem. Exchange is retained throughout. Uniform antiferromagnetic hydrogen chains provide an almost ideal setting for this approach, while retaining the Coulomb interaction and its 1/r tail. We initialize and converge a chain of 100,000 electrons in 1.8 million spatial basis functions in about two hours on a 64-GB Mac mini, using less than a third of its memory. The work per sweep is nearly proportional to chain length, and the number of sweeps needed for convergence changes little from 1000 to 100,000 atoms. DMRG's compression of states and environments thus makes large HF calculations with long-range Hartree and exchange practical on an ordinary desktop computer.
ER -