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We show that projected entangled-pair states (PEPS) can describe chiral topologically ordered phases. For that, we construct a simple PEPS for spin-1/2 particles in a two-dimensional lattice. We reveal a symmetry in the local projector of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-11 Shuo Yang , Thorsten B. Wahl , Hong-Hao Tu , Norbert Schuch , J. Ignacio Cirac

Efficient characterization of higher dimensional many-body physical states presents significant challenges. In this paper, we propose a new class of Project Entangled Pair State (PEPS) that incorporates two isometric conditions. This new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Xie-Hang Yu , J. Ignacio Cirac , Pavel Kos , Georgios Styliaris

Projected entangled pair states (PEPS) provide exact representations for many non-chiral topologically ordered states whereas their range of applicability to interacting chiral topological phases remains largely unsettled. In this context,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-06 Anna Hackenbroich , Antoine Sterdyniak , Norbert Schuch

We report on a class of gapped projected entangled pair states (PEPS) with non-trivial Euler topology motivated by recent progress in band geometry. In the non-interacting limit, these systems have optimal conditions relating to saturation…

We study the edge physics of gapped quantum systems in the framework of Projected Entangled Pair State (PEPS) models. We show that the effective low-energy model for any region acts on the entanglement degrees of freedom at the boundary,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-01-28 S. Yang , L. Lehman , D. Poilblanc , K. Van Acoleyen , F. Verstraete , J. I. Cirac , N. Schuch

Tensor networks, and in particular Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS), are a powerful tool for the study of quantum many body physics, thanks to both their built-in ability of classifying and studying symmetries, and the efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-05 Erez Zohar , Michele Burrello , Thorsten B. Wahl , J. Ignacio Cirac

We introduce a family of tensor network states that we term semi-injective Projected Entangled-Pair States (PEPS). They extend the class of injective PEPS and include other states, like the ground states of the AKLT and the CZX models in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-04 Andras Molnar , Yimin Ge , Norbert Schuch , J. Ignacio Cirac

Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS) are used in practice as an efficient parametrization of the set of ground states of quantum many body systems. The aim of this paper is to present, for a broad mathematical audience, some mathematical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-03-19 J. Ignacio Cirac , José Garre-Rubio , David Pérez-García

Projected entangled pair states (PEPS) provide a natural ansatz for the ground states of gapped, local Hamiltonians in which global characteristics of a quantum state are encoded in properties of local tensors. We develop a framework to…

The projected entangled pair state (PEPS) ansatz can represent a thermal state in a strongly correlated system. We introduce a novel variational algorithm to optimize this tensor network. Since full tensor environment is taken into account,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-31 Piotr Czarnik , Jacek Dziarmaga

The tensor network representation of a state in higher dimensions, say a projected entangled-pair state (PEPS), is typically obtained indirectly through variational optimization or imaginary-time Hamiltonian evolution. Here, we propose a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-01 Yuman He , Kangle Li , Yanbai Zhang , Hoi Chun Po

A spontaneous symmetry-breaking order is conventionally described by a tensor-product wave-function of some few-body clusters. We discuss a type of symmetry-breaking orders, dubbed entanglement-enabled symmetry-breaking orders, which cannot…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-28 Cheng-Ju Lin , Liujun Zou

We study the nature of the ground state of the frustrated J1-J2 model and the J1-J3 model using a variational algorithm based on projected entangled-pair states (PEPS). By investigating spin-spin correlation functions, we observe a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 V. Murg , F. Verstraete , J. I. Cirac

The Hamiltonian for a system of itinerant particles on a two-dimensional lattice in a uniform magnetic field reduces the translational symmetry to a magnetic translation group, because of the need to choose a particular gauge for the vector…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Wei Tang , Gunnar Möller , Frank Verstraete , Laurens Vanderstraeten

We demonstrate that projected entangled-pair states (PEPS) are able to represent ground states of critical, fermionic systems exhibiting both 1d and 0d Fermi surfaces on a 2D lattice with an efficient scaling of the bond dimension.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-17 Quinten Mortier , Norbert Schuch , Frank Verstraete , Jutho Haegeman

Two dimensional tensor networks such as projected entangled pairs states (PEPS) are generally hard to contract. This is arguably the main reason why variational tensor network methods in 2D are still not as successful as in 1D. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Anurag Anshu , Itai Arad , Aditya Jain

Algorithms to simulate the ring-exchange models using the projected entangled pair states (PEPS) are developed. We generalize the imaginary time evolution (ITE) method to optimize PEPS wave functions for the models with ring-exchange…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Chao Wang , Shaojun Dong , Yongjian Han , Lixin He

We argue and demonstrate that projected entangled-pair states (PEPS) outperform matrix product states significantly for the task of generative modeling of datasets with an intrinsic two-dimensional structure such as images. Our approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-17 Tom Vieijra , Laurens Vanderstraeten , Frank Verstraete

Projected entangled-pair states (PEPS) constitute a powerful variational ansatz for capturing ground state physics of two-dimensional quantum systems. However, accurately computing and minimizing the energy expectation value remains…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-15 Wei Tang , Laurens Vanderstraeten , Jutho Haegeman

We explore the landscape of the decoherence effect in mixed-state ensembles from a purification perspective. We analyze the spontaneous strong-to-weak symmetry breaking (SSSB) in mixed states triggered by local quantum channels by mapping…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 Pablo Sala , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Masaki Oshikawa , Yizhi You