Finite-temperature dynamics with the density-matrix renormalization group method

Abstract

We present a novel numerical method for the evaluation of dynamical response functions at finite temperatures in one-dimensional strongly correlated systems. The approach is based on the density-matrix renormalization group method, combined with the finite-temperature Lanczos diagonalization. The feasibility of the method is tested on the example of dynamical spin correlations in the anisotropic Heisenberg chain, in particular it yields nontrivial results for the critical behavior in the isotropic case.