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Particles, holes and solitons: a matrix product state approach

Quantum Physics 2013-07-17 v3 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We introduce a variational method for calculating dispersion relations of translation invariant (1+1)-dimensional quantum field theories. The method is based on continuous matrix product states and can be implemented efficiently. We study the critical Lieb-Liniger model as a benchmark and excelent agreement with the exact solution is found. Additionally, we observe solitonic signatures of Lieb's Type II excitation. In addition, a non-integrable model is introduced where a U(1)-symmetry breaking term is added to the Lieb-Liniger Hamiltonian. For this model we find evidence of a non-trivial bound-state excitation in the dispersion relation.

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@article{arxiv.1212.1114,
  title  = {Particles, holes and solitons: a matrix product state approach},
  author = {Damian Draxler and Jutho Haegeman and Tobias J. Osborne and Vid Stojevic and Laurens Vanderstraeten and Frank Verstraete},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.1114},
  year   = {2013}
}