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An invaluable method for probing the physics of a quantum many-body spin system is a mapping to noninteracting effective fermions. We find such mappings using only the frustration graph $G$ of a Hamiltonian $H$, i.e., the network of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 Samuel J. Elman , Adrian Chapman , Steven T. Flammia

We present a graph-theoretic characterisation of when a quantum spin model admits an exact solution via a mapping to free parafermions. Our characterisation is based on the concept of a frustration graph, which represents the commutation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Ryan L. Mann , Samuel J. Elman , David R. Wood , Adrian Chapman

We consider quantum error-correcting subsystem codes whose gauge generators realize a translation-invariant, free-fermion-solvable spin model. In this setting, errors are suppressed by a Hamiltonian whose terms are the gauge generators of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Adrian Chapman , Steven T. Flammia , Alicia J. Kollár

Exactly solvable models are essential in physics. For many-body spin-1/2 systems, an important class of such models consists of those that can be mapped to free fermions hopping on a graph. We provide a complete characterization of models…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Adrian Chapman , Steven T. Flammia

Recently, several spin chain models have been discovered that admit solutions in terms of "free fermions in disguise." A graph-theoretical treatment of such models was also established, giving sufficient conditions for free fermionic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-11 Kohei Fukai , István Vona , Balázs Pozsgay

We present a novel graph-theoretic approach to simplifying generic many-body Hamiltonians. Our primary result introduces a recursive twin-collapse algorithm, leveraging the identification and elimination of symmetric vertex pairs (twins),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Jannis Ruh , Samuel J. Elman

Recently, a class of spin chains known as ``free fermions in disguise'' (FFD) has been discovered, which possess hidden free-fermion spectra even though they are not solvable via the standard Jordan-Wigner transformation. In this work, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 Kohei Fukai , Hironobu Yoshida , Hosho Katsura

We study quantum spin chains solvable via hidden free fermionic structures. We study the algebras behind such models, establishing connections to the mathematical literature of the so-called ``graph-Clifford'' or ``quasi-Clifford''…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-04 Kohei Fukai , Balázs Pozsgay , István Vona

Frustration-free Hamiltonians provide pivotal models for understanding quantum many-body systems. In this paper, we establish a general framework for frustration-free fermionic systems. First, we derive a necessary and sufficient condition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-13 Rintaro Masaoka , Seishiro Ono , Hoi Chun Po , Haruki Watanabe

I solve a quantum chain whose Hamiltonian is comprised solely of local four-fermi operators by constructing free-fermion raising and lowering operators. The free-fermion operators are both non-local and highly non-linear in the local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-06 Paul Fendley

The Jordan-Wigner transformation is frequently utilised to rewrite quantum spin chains in terms of fermionic operators. When the resulting Hamiltonian is bilinear in these fermions, i.e. the fermions are free, the exact spectrum follows…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-10 Paul Fendley , Balazs Pozsgay

Recently multiple families of spin chain models were found, which have a free fermionic spectrum,even though they are not solvable by a Jordan-Wigner transformation. Instead, the free fermions emerge as a result of a rather intricate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Balázs Pozsgay , Kohei Fukai

Simulating noninteracting fermion systems is a common task in computational many-body physics. In absence of translational symmetries, modeling free fermions on $N$ modes usually requires poly$(N)$ computational resources. While often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Maarten Stroeks , Daan Lenterman , Barbara Terhal , Yaroslav Herasymenko

We develop a general theory of frustration-free free-fermion systems and derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for such Hamiltonians. Assuming locality and translation invariance, we find that any band touching between the valence…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-13 Seishiro Ono , Rintaro Masaoka , Haruki Watanabe , Hoi Chun Po

We identify a large class of quantum many-body systems that can be solved exactly: natural frustration-free spin-1/2 nearest-neighbor Hamiltonians on arbitrary lattices. We show that the entire ground state manifold of such models can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 N. de Beaudrap , M. Ohliger , T. J. Osborne , J. Eisert

This paper offers a review of recent studies on the entanglement of free-fermion systems on graphs that take advantage of methods pertaining to signal processing and algebraic combinatorics. On the one hand, a parallel with time and band…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Pierre-Antoine Bernard , Nicolas Crampé , Rafael I. Nepomechie , Gilles Parez , Luc Vinet

The goal of our work is to characterize the landscape of the frustration-free quantum spin models over the Cayley graph of a finitely generated group $G$. This is achieved by establishing $G$-equivariant morphisms from the partially ordered…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Danilo Polo Ojito , Emil Prodan , Tom Stoiber

We study the quantum fermions+gravity system, that is, the gravitational counterpart of QED. We start from the standard Einstein-Weyl theory, reformulated in terms of Ashtekar variables; and we construct its non- perturbative quantum theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 H A Marales-Tecotl , C Rovelli

This work proposes a minimal model extending the duality between classical statistical spin systems and fermionic systems beyond the case of free fermions. A Jordan-Wigner transformation applied to a two-dimensional tensor network maps the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-23 Carolin Wille , Maksimilian Usoltcev , Jens Eisert , Alexander Altland

Free fermions in disguise (FFD) Hamiltonians describe spin chains which can be mapped to free fermions, but not via a Jordan-Wigner transformation. Although the mapping gives access to the full Hamiltonian spectrum, the computation of spin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-06 Eric Vernier , Lorenzo Piroli
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