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Bulk Geometry of the Many Body Localized Phase from Wilson-Wegner Flow

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2019-09-26 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Quantum Physics

Abstract

Tensor networks are a powerful formalism for transforming one set of degrees of freedom to another. They have been heavily used in analyzing the geometry of bulk/boundary correspondence in conformal field theories. Here we develop a tensor-network version of the Wilson-Wegner Renormalization Group Flow equations to efficiently generate a unitary tensor network which diagonalizes many-body localized Hamiltonians. Treating this unitary tensor network as a bulk geometry, we find this emergent geometry corresponds to the shredded horizon picture: the circumference of the network shrinks exponentially with distance into the bulk, with spatially distant points being largely disconnected.

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@article{arxiv.1909.11097,
  title  = {Bulk Geometry of the Many Body Localized Phase from Wilson-Wegner Flow},
  author = {Xiongjie Yu and David Pekker and Bryan K. Clark},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.11097},
  year   = {2019}
}

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4+8 pages; 5+12 figures