Configuration Interaction as an Impurity Solver: Benchmark Dynamical Mean-Field Theory for the Hubbard Model

The configuration interaction technique has been widely used in quantum chemistry to solve quantum many body systems with lower computational costs than exact diagonalization and was introduced by Dominika Zgid, Emanuel Gull, and Garnet Kin-Lic Chan [Phys. Rev. B \textbf{86}, 165128 (2012)] as a solver for the impurity models of dynamical mean field theory. We extend their work, demonstrating for the one and two dimensional Hubbard model how the method reproduces the known results and allows convergence with bath size to be studied in cluster dynamical mean field theory. As an example of the power of the method, cluster dynamical mean field studies of the three band copper-oxygen model are presented.