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We derive the multiscale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA) for the single impuity Kondo model. We find two types of hidden quantum entanglement: one comes from a finite-temperature effect on the geometry of the MERA network, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-08-15 Hiroaki Matsueda

The goal of this manuscript is to provide an introduction to the multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA) and its application to the study of quantum critical systems. Only systems in one spatial dimension are considered. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-01 Glen Evenbly , Guifre Vidal

We show how to build a multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA) representation of the ground state of a many-body Hamiltonian $H$ by applying the recently proposed \textit{tensor network renormalization} (TNR) [G. Evenbly and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-18 Glen Evenbly , Guifre Vidal

We introduce the multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA), an efficient representation of certain quantum many-body states on a D-dimensional lattice. Equivalent to a quantum circuit with logarithmic depth and distinctive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Vidal

The Multiscale Entanglement Renormalization Ansatz (MERA) is a tensor network based variational ansatz that is capable of capturing many of the key physical properties of strongly correlated ground states such as criticality and topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-31 Victor Chua , Vasilios Passias , Apoorv Tiwari , Shinsei Ryu

We extend the formalism of entanglement renormalization to the study of boundary critical phenomena. The multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA), in its scale invariant version, offers a very compact approximation to quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-11-02 G. Evenbly , R. N. C. Pfeifer , V. Pico , S. Iblisdir , L. Tagliacozzo , I. P. McCulloch , G. Vidal

We construct an explicit renormalization group (RG) transformation for Levin and Wen's string-net models on a hexagonal lattice. The transformation leaves invariant the ground-state "fixed-point" wave function of the string-net condensed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-06-15 Robert Koenig , Ben W. Reichardt , Guifre Vidal

The multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA) is a tensor network representation for ground states of critical quantum spin chains, with a network that extends in an additional dimension corresponding to scale. Over the years…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-04 Ashley Milsted , Guifre Vidal

We use TensorNetwork [C. Roberts et al., arXiv: 1905.01330], a recently developed API for performing tensor network contractions using accelerated backends such as TensorFlow, to implement an optimization algorithm for the Multi-scale…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-01 Martin Ganahl , Ashley Milsted , Stefan Leichenauer , Jack Hidary , Guifre Vidal

The investigation of strongly-correlated quantum matter is difficult due to the curse of dimensionality and intricate entanglement structures. These challenges are particularly pronounced in the vicinity of continuous quantum phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Qiang Miao , Tianyi Wang , Kenneth R. Brown , Thomas Barthel , Marko Cetina

The simulation of entangled ground-states of quantum materials remains challenging for classical computational methods in more than one spatial dimension, and is a prime target for quantum computational advantage. To this end, an important…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Sing Lam Wong , Andrew C. Potter

We develop techniques to systematically construct local unitaries which map scale-invariant, product state wavefunctionals to the ground states of weakly interacting, continuum quantum field theories. More broadly, we devise a "quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Jordan Cotler , M. Reza Mohammadi Mozaffar , Ali Mollabashi , Ali Naseh

We show that the multiscale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA) can be reformulated in terms of a causality constraint on discrete quantum dynamics. This causal structure is that of de Sitter space with a flat spacelike boundary,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-05 Cédric Bény

We perform a detailed resource estimate for the prospect of using deep entanglement renormalization ansatz (DMERA) on a fault-tolerant quantum computer, focusing on the regime in which the target system is large. For probing a relatively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Joshua Job , Isaac H. Kim , Eric Johnston , Steve Adachi

While standard approaches to quantum simulation require a number of qubits proportional to the number of simulated particles, current noisy quantum computers are limited to tens of qubits. With the technique of holographic quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-07 Sajant Anand , Johannes Hauschild , Yuxuan Zhang , Andrew C. Potter , Michael P. Zaletel

Tensor networks representations of many-body quantum systems can be described in terms of quantum channels. We focus on channels associated with the Multi-scale Entanglement Renormalization Ansatz (MERA) tensor network that has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vittorio Giovannetti , Simone Montangero , Rosario Fazio

Continuous tensor networks are variational wavefunctions proposed in recent years to efficiently simulate quantum field theories (QFTs). Prominent examples include the continuous matrix product state (cMPS) and the continuous multi-scale…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-12 Yijian Zou , Martin Ganahl , Guifre Vidal

We propose a variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) for the simulation of strongly-correlated quantum matter based on a multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA) and gradient-based optimization. This MERA quantum eigensolver can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-04 Qiang Miao , Thomas Barthel

The multi-scale entanglement renormalisation ansatz (MERA) is argued to provide a natural description for topological states of matter. The case of Kitaev's toric code is analyzed in detail and shown to possess a remarkably simple MERA…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-02-22 Miguel Aguado , Guifre Vidal

Continuous tensor network gives a variational ansatz for the ground state of the quantum field theories (QFTs). The notable examples are the continuous matrix product state (cMPS) and the continuous multiscale entanglement renormalization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-23 Niloofar Vardian