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Tensor network renormalization yields the multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz

arXiv:1502.05385 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.200401

Abstract

We show how to build a multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA) representation of the ground state of a many-body Hamiltonian by applying the recently proposed \textit{tensor network renormalization} (TNR) [G. Evenbly and G. Vidal, arXiv:1412.0732] to the Euclidean time evolution operator for infinite . This approach bypasses the costly energy minimization of previous MERA algorithms and, when applied to finite inverse temperature , produces a MERA representation of a thermal Gibbs state. Our construction endows TNR with a renormalization group flow in the space of wave-functions and Hamiltonians (and not just in the more abstract space of tensors) and extends the MERA formalism to classical statistical systems.

Revised version, with additional appendices. Main text: 5 pages, 4 figures, Appendices: 6 pages, 9 figures

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