Tensor network states for the description of quantum many-body systems

Abstract

This thesis is divided into two mainly independent parts: In the first part, we derive a criterion to determine when a translationally invariant Matrix Product State (MPS) has long range localizable entanglement, which indicates that the corresponding state has some kind of non-local hidden order. We give examples fulfilling this criterion and eventually use it to obtain all such MPS with bond dimension 2 and 3. In the second part, we show that Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS) in two spatial dimensions can describe chiral topological states by explicitly constructing a family of such states with a non-trivial Chern number. We demonstrate that such free fermionic PEPS must necessarily be non-injective and have gapless parent Hamiltonians. Moreover, we provide numerical evidence that they can nevertheless approximate well the physical properties of Chern insulators with local Hamiltonians at arbitrary temperatures. We also construct long range, topological Hamiltonians with a flat energy spectrum for which those PEPS are unique ground states. As for non-chiral topological PEPS, the non-trivial, topological properties can be traced down to the existence of a symmetry on the virtual level of the PEPS tensor that is used to build the state. We use the special properties of PEPS to build the boundary theory and show how the symmetry results in the appearance of chiral modes, a ground state degeneracy of the parent Hamiltonian on the torus and a universal correction to the area law for the zero Rényi entropy. Finally, we show that PEPS can also 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 of the PEPS tensor that gives rise to the global topological character. We also extract characteristic quantities of the edge Conformal Field Theory using the bulk-boundary correspondence.

PhD thesis, 156 pages, Dissertation, Technical University of Munich (2015)

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