Computing the real-time Green's Functions of large Hamiltonian matrices

Abstract

A numerical method is developed for calculating the real time Green's functions of very large sparse Hamiltonian matrices, which exploits the numerical solution of the inhomogeneous time-dependent Schroedinger equation. The method has a clear-cut structure reflecting the most naive definition of the Green's functions, and is very suitable to parallel and vector supercomputers. The effectiveness of the method is illustrated by applying it to simple lattice models. An application of this method to condensed matter physics will be found in H. Tanaka, Phys. PRB 57, 2168 (1998).