Abstract. We show a new kind of applications of the sparse modeling to a traditional problem in the condensed-matter physics. In the quantum Monte-Carlo simulation, we observe a huge amount of data for investigation of the details of the low-energy behavior for interacting manybody systems. Although the real-time behavior is actually under investigation, the quantum Monte-Carlo simulation is performed on the imaginary time for restriction of the method. Thus we need a technique for analytical continuation connecting between the real and imaginarytime functions. However the analytical continuation can be problematic because the problem consists of solving the ill-conditioned equation. In the present study, by employing an adequate regularization, we solve efficiently the ill-conditioned equation in the analytical continuation. As a result, we have a novel way to perform the analytical continuation and find an intermediate representation between imaginary-time and real-frequency domains.
IntroductionIn the present manuscript, we provide an elementary guide for our recent papers from manybody physics to fascinating applications of the sparse modeling [1,2]. In the analysis on the condensed matter, it is harmful to directly deal with the theoretical model for investigating some nontrivial aspects. We usually employ various approximate method and numerical calculations. In the quantum many-body systems, most of the analyses are performed with recourse to the imaginary-time framework for computing the real-time behavior. Then one needs to utilize the analytical continuation to transform the estimated quantities in imaginary-time regions to real-frequency regions, which can be compared to the experimental results. The representative method to deal with the quantum many-body systems is the elaborate diagrammatic approach widely used for investigating both of static and dynamics responses of the systems [3,4]. Variants of the quantum Monte-Carlo simulations (QMC) also take full advantage of imaginary-time descriptions [5,6]. We consider the case of the QMC in the following.The analytical continuation can be formulated as the inverse problem. Given the relationship between imaginary-time description G and the real-frequency behavior ρ as