{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/a-comparison-between-the-one-and-two-step","title":"A comparison between the one- and two-step spin-orbit coupling approaches based on the ab initio Density Matrix Renormalization Group","arxiv_id":"2207.02435","date":"2022-07-06","proceeding":null,"authors":["Huanchen Zhai","Garnet Kin-Lic Chan"],"abstract":"The efficient and reliable treatment of both spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and electron correlation is essential for understanding f-element chemistry. We analyze two approaches to the problem, the one-step approach where both effects are treated simultaneously, and the two-step state interaction approach. We report an implementation of the ab initio density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) with a one-step treatment of the SOC effect which can be compared to prior two-step treatments on an equal footing. Using a dysprosium octahedral complex and bridged dimer as benchmark systems, we identify characteristics of problems where the one-step approach is beneficial for obtaining the low-energy spectrum.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02435v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.02435v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"a-comparison-between-the-one-and-two-step","repo_url":"https://github.com/block-hczhai/block2-preview","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}