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TensorNetwork on TensorFlow: A Spin Chain Application Using Tree Tensor Networks

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2019-05-07 v1 Machine Learning High Energy Physics - Theory Computational Physics Machine Learning

Abstract

TensorNetwork is an open source library for implementing tensor network algorithms in TensorFlow. We describe a tree tensor network (TTN) algorithm for approximating the ground state of either a periodic quantum spin chain (1D) or a lattice model on a thin torus (2D), and implement the algorithm using TensorNetwork. We use a standard energy minimization procedure over a TTN ansatz with bond dimension χ\chi, with a computational cost that scales as O(χ4)O(\chi^4). Using bond dimension χ[32,256]\chi \in [32,256] we compare the use of CPUs with GPUs and observe significant computational speed-ups, up to a factor of 100100, using a GPU and the TensorNetwork library.

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@article{arxiv.1905.01331,
  title  = {TensorNetwork on TensorFlow: A Spin Chain Application Using Tree Tensor Networks},
  author = {Ashley Milsted and Martin Ganahl and Stefan Leichenauer and Jack Hidary and Guifre Vidal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.01331},
  year   = {2019}
}

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All code can be found at https://github.com/google/tensornetwork

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