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Tangent-space methods for truncating uniform MPS

Quantum Physics 2021-02-12 v3 Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

A central primitive in quantum tensor network simulations is the problem of approximating a matrix product state with one of a lower bond dimension. This problem forms the central bottleneck in algorithms for time evolution and for contracting projected entangled pair states. We formulate a tangent-space based variational algorithm to achieve this for uniform (infinite) matrix product states. The algorithm exhibits a favourable scaling of the computational cost, and we demonstrate its usefulness by several examples involving the multiplication of a matrix product state with a matrix product operator.

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@article{arxiv.2001.11882,
  title  = {Tangent-space methods for truncating uniform MPS},
  author = {Bram Vanhecke and Maarten Van Damme and Jutho Haegeman and Laurens Vanderstraeten and Frank Verstraete},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.11882},
  year   = {2021}
}
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