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A Computer Code for Topological Quantum Spin Systems over Triangulated Surfaces

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2020-08-26 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We derive explicit closed-form matrix representations of Hamiltonians drawn from tensored algebras, such as quantum spin Hamiltonians. These formulas enable us to soft-code generic Hamiltonian systems and to systematize the input data for uniformly structured as well as for un-structured Hamiltonians. The result is an optimal computer code that can be used as a black box that takes in certain input files and returns spectral information about the Hamiltonian. The code is tested on Kitaev's toric code deployed on triangulated surfaces of genus 0 and 1. The input file corresponding to the minimal triangulation of genus 2 is also supplied.

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@article{arxiv.1912.12964,
  title  = {A Computer Code for Topological Quantum Spin Systems over Triangulated Surfaces},
  author = {Yingkai Liu and Emil Prodan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.12964},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

optimized code can be executed on a laptop

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