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arXiv:1011.2060 · Chinese Physics B

Translation invariant tensor product states in a finite lattice system

Jianwei Cai, Qiaoni Chen, Hui‐Hai Zhao, Z. Y. Xie, Mingpu Qin, Zhongchao Wei, Tao Xiang

Published Nov 1, 2011• 2 citations
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Abstract

We show that the matrix (or more generally tensor) product states in a finite translation invariant system can be accurately constructed from the same set of local matrices (or tensors) that are determined from an infinite lattice system in one or higher dimensions. This provides an efficient approach for studying translation invariant tensor product states in finite lattice systems. Two methods are introduced to determine these size-independent local tensors.

DOI
10.1088/1674-1056/20/11/117501

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We show that the matrix (or more generally tensor) product states in a finite translation invariant system can be accurately constructed from the same set of local matrices (or tensors) that are determined from an infinite lattice system in one or higher dimensions. This provides an efficient approach for studying translation invariant tensor product states in finite lattice systems. Two methods are introduced to determine these size-independent local tensors.
We develop an efficient algorithm to find a matrix product state representation of the ground-state wavefunctions for translationally invariant finite-size periodic lattice systems in one spatial dimension. This is based on the observation that the efficient computation of the ground-state energy per site only needs to retain a certain number of the largest eigenvalues of the transfer matrix for a matrix product state, without any sacrifice of accuracy. The computational cost is independent of the system's size, and scales as χ 3 with χ being the truncation dimension. The algorithm is tested for the critical quantum Ising model in a transverse field on a finite-size lattice, with the size as large as 4800 for the truncation dimension 200.
We determine the local symmetries and local transformation properties of certain many-body states called translationally invariant matrix product states (TIMPSs). We focus on physical dimension d=2d=2d=2 of the local Hilbert spaces and bond dimension D=3D=3D=3 and use the procedure introduced in Sauerwein et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 170504 (2019)] to determine all (including nonglobal) symmetries of those states. We identify and classify the stochastic local operations assisted by classical communication (SLOCC) that are allowed among TIMPSs. We scrutinize two very distinct sets of TIMPSs and show the big diversity (also compared to the case D=2D=2D=2) occurring in both their symmetries and the possible SLOCC transformations. These results reflect the variety of local properties of MPSs, even if restricted to translationally invariant states with low bond dimension. Finally, we show that states with nontrivial local symmetries are of measure zero for d=2d=2d=2 and D>3D>3D>3.
Abstract Understanding extreme non-locality in many-body quantum systems can help resolve questions in thermostatistics and laser physics. The existence of symmetry selection rules for Hamiltonians with non-decaying terms on infinite-size lattices can lead to finite energies per site, which deserves attention. Here, we present a tensor network approach to construct the ground states of nontrivial symmetric infinite-dimensional spin Hamiltonians based on constrained optimizations of their infinite matrix product states description, which contains no truncation step, offers a very simple mathematical structure, and other minor advantages at the cost of slightly higher polynomial complexity in comparison to an existing method. More precisely speaking, our proposed algorithm is in part equivalent to the more generic and well-established solvers of infinite density-matrix renormalization-group and variational uniform matrix product states, which are, in principle, capable of accurately representing the ground states of such infinite-range-interacting many-body systems. However, we employ some mathematical simplifications that would allow for efficient brute-force optimizations of tensor-network matrices for the specific cases of highly-symmetric infinite-size infinite-range models. As a toy-model example, we showcase the effectiveness and explain some features of our method by finding the ground state of the U(1)-symmetric infinite-dimensional antiferromagnetic XX Heisenberg model.
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