One Property of the Renormalization Group Operator

Christophe Chatelain

Abstract Strong-disorder renormalization group (SDRG), despite being a relatively simple real-space renormalization procedure, provides in principle exact results on the critical properties at the infinite-randomness fixed point of random quantum spin chains. Numerically, SDRG can be efficiently implemented as a renormalization of matrix product operators (MPO-RG). By considering larger blocks than SDRG, MPO-RG was recently used to compute non-critical quantities of finite chains that are inaccessible to SDRG. In this work, the accuracy of this approach is studied and two simple and fast improvements are proposed. The accuracy on the ground state energy is improved by a factor at least equal to four for the random Ising chain in a transverse field. Finally, the proposed algorithms are shown to yield Binder cumulants of the three-color random Ashkin–Teller chain that are compatible with a second-order phase transition while a first-order one is predicted by the original MPO-RG algorithm.

Robert B. Griffiths

Christophe Chatelain

A relatively simple real-space renormalization procedure, due to Ma and Dasgupta and known as Strong-Disorder Renormalization Group (SDRG), provides in principle exact results on the critical properties at the infinite-randomness fixed point of random spin chains. Numerically, SDRG can be efficiently implemented as a renormalization of Matrix Product Operators (MPO-RG). By considering larger blocks than SDRG, MPO-RG was recently used to compute non-critical quantities that are inaccessible to SDRG. In this work, we study the accuracy of the approach and propose two simple and fast improvements. We observe that the accuracy on the ground state energy is improved by a factor at least equal to 4.

Peter Kunszt

Ming-Shyang Chang, Wei Chen, Hsiu-Hau Lin

We studied the correlated quasi-one-dimensional systems by one-loop renormalization group techniques in weak coupling. In contrast to conventional g-ology approach, we formulate the theory in terms of bilinear currents and obtain all possible interaction vertices. Furthermore, the one-loop renormalization group equations are derived by operator product expansions of these currents at short length scale. It is rather remarkable that these coupled non-linear equations, after appropriate rescaling, can be casted into potential flows. The existence of what we nicknamed "RG potential" provides a natural explanation of the emergent symmetry enhancement in ladder systems. Further implications arisen from the RG potential are also discussed at the end.

M. S. Green