Various many-body methods
- Monte-Carlo methods
- Renormalization group (RG) methods, in particular density matrix RG
- Large-scale diagonalization (Iterative methods, Lanczo's method, dimensionalities \( 10^{10} \) states)
- Coupled cluster theory, favoured method in quantum chemistry, molecular and atomic physics. Applications to ab initio calculations in nuclear physics as well for large nuclei.
- Perturbative many-body methods
- Green's function methods
- Density functional theory/Mean-field theory and Hartree-Fock theory
The physics of the system hints at which many-body methods to use.