Physical review. B, Condensed matter
Determination of the radius of convergence of the perturbation expansion using Padé approximants: Application to the Hückel limit of the Hubbard model for finite cyclic polyenes
M. Takahashi, Jakub Čı́žek, Josef Paldus
Abstract
The radius of convergence of a perturbation expansion is estimated using Pad\'e approximants. Location of the branch point which is nearest to the origin is evaluated directly from the pole of the denominator of an [M,M] Pad\'e approximant and indirectly from the logarithmic derivative of this approximant. Both methods are applied to the perturbation expansion for the ground-state energy of the finite cyclic Hubbard systems. The method using the logarithmic derivative yields numerical results which are in good agreement with those obtained by other methods. Kato's formula is also applied.