Steven R. White Department of Physics, University of California, Irvine, California 92717
Received 22 May 1992; published in the issue dated 9 November 1992
A generalization of the numerical renormalization-group procedure used first by Wilson for the Kondo problem is presented. It is shown that this formulation is optimal in a certain sense. As a demonstration of the effectiveness of this approach, results from numerical real-space renormalization-group calculations for Heisenberg chains are presented.