Analytic continuation with Pad\'e decomposition

Abstract

The ill-posed analytic continuation problem for Green's functions or self-energies can be done using the Pad\'e rational polynomial approximation. However, to extract accurate results from this approximation, high precision input data of the Matsubara Green's function are needed. The calculation of the Matsubara Green's function generally involves a Matsubara frequency summation which cannot be evaluated analytically. Numerical summation is requisite but it converges slowly with the increase of the Matsubara frequency. Here we show that this slow convergence problem can be significantly improved by utilizing the Pad\'e decomposition approach to replace the Matsubara frequency summation by a Pad\'e frequency summation, and high precision input data can be obtained to successfully perform the Pad\'e analytic continuation.