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Frustration free gapless Hamiltonians for Matrix Product States

Quantum Physics 2015-01-06 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

For every Matrix Product State (MPS) one can always construct a so-called parent Hamiltonian. This is a local, frustration free, Hamiltonian which has the MPS as ground state and is gapped. Whenever that parent Hamiltonian has a degenerate ground state (the so-called non-injective case), we construct another 'uncle' Hamiltonian which is local and frustration free but gapless, and its spectrum is R+\R^+. The construction is obtained by linearly perturbing the matrices building up the state in a random direction, and then taking the limit where the perturbation goes to zero. For MPS where the parent Hamiltonian has a unique ground state (the so-called injective case) we also build such uncle Hamiltonian with the same properties in the thermodynamic limit.

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@article{arxiv.1210.6613,
  title  = {Frustration free gapless Hamiltonians for Matrix Product States},
  author = {Carlos Fernández-González and Norbert Schuch and Michael M. Wolf and J. Ignacio Cirac and David Pérez-García},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.6613},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

36 pages, new version with some contents rearranged, and a correction in the injective case