Change convention for LSWT dynamical matrix #349
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With this PR, the dynamical matrix$D$ is rescaled by a factor of 2 so that the quadratic bosonic Hamiltonian can be written,
with$\Psi$ the HP bosons in Nambu spinor form. In this updated convention, the positive eigenvalues of $\tilde{I} D$ are directly the magnon excitation energies.
Apart from aesthetics, there is one real behavioral change in this PR: The effective LSWT
regularization
strength (with default of1e-8
) is now weakened by a factor of 1/2. That is, the dynamical matrix is now shifted byregularization
rather than2 * regularization
. Consequently, the reference data for some "golden" tests must be updated. This modified regularization appears in the final commit of this branch.