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Matrix Product States: Symmetries and Two-Body Hamiltonians

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-06-04 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We characterize the conditions under which a translationally invariant matrix product state (MPS) is invariant under local transformations. This allows us to relate the symmetry group of a given state to the symmetry group of a simple tensor. We exploit this result in order to prove and extend a version of the Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorem, one of the basic results in many-body physics, in the context of MPS. We illustrate the results with an exhaustive search of SU(2)--invariant two-body Hamiltonians which have such MPS as exact ground states or excitations.

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@article{arxiv.0901.2223,
  title  = {Matrix Product States: Symmetries and Two-Body Hamiltonians},
  author = {M. Sanz and M. M. Wolf and D. Perez-Garcia and J. I. Cirac},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.2223},
  year   = {2009}
}

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PDFLatex, 12 pages and 6 figures