2008 APS March Meeting 
Volume 53, Number 2
Monday–Friday, March 10–14, 2008;
New Orleans, Louisiana
Session Index
Session X13: Quantum Monte Carlo Methods and Strongly Correlated Systems
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Sponsoring Units: DCOMP 
Chair: Anders Sandvik, Boston University 
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 
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Friday, March 14, 2008 
8:00AM - 8:12AM 
 
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X13.00001: Variational approach for 1D antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain with matrix-product states 
Ying-Jer Kao, Ling Wang, Anders Sandvik
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Friday, March 14, 2008 
8:12AM - 8:24AM 
 
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X13.00002: Excited states from variational Monte Carlo simulations with matrix-product states 
Ling Wang, Ying-Jer Kao, Anders Sandvik
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Friday, March 14, 2008 
8:24AM - 8:36AM 
 
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X13.00003: Scale-renormalized matrix-product states for correlated quantum systems 
Anders Sandvik
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Friday, March 14, 2008 
8:36AM - 8:48AM 
 
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X13.00004: DMRG applied to quantum impurity models 
Andreas Weichselbaum, Jan von Delft
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Friday, March 14, 2008 
8:48AM - 9:00AM 
 
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X13.00005: Ameliorating the sign problem for frustrated magnets using plaquette grouping 
Kevin Beach
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Friday, March 14, 2008 
9:00AM - 9:12AM 
 
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X13.00006: Bold Diagrammatic Monte Carlo: Generic Technique for Polaron Problems (and More?) 
Boris Svistunov, Nikolay Prokof'ev
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Friday, March 14, 2008 
9:12AM - 9:24AM 
 
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X13.00007: Interfacing Determinant Quantum Monte Carlo and Density Functional Theory 
Nikolai Zarkevich, Zhaojun Bai, Sergey Savrasov, Richard Scalettar, Mark Jarrell
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Friday, March 14, 2008 
9:24AM - 9:36AM 
 
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X13.00008: Spin waves and local magnetizations on the Penrose tiling 
Attila Szallas, Anuradha Jagannathan
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Friday, March 14, 2008 
9:36AM - 9:48AM 
 
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X13.00009: Loop Algorithm for the SU(N) Heisenberg Model 
Naoki Kawashima
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Friday, March 14, 2008 
9:48AM - 10:00AM 
 
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X13.00010: Dynamical properties of SSH and breathing type Hamiltonians 
Hans Gerd Evertz, Peter Pippan
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