Magic entanglement renormalization for quantum fields

Abstract

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 entanglement renormalization ansatz (cMERA). While the cMPS can approximate ground states of a class of QFT Hamiltonians that are both local and interacting, cMERA is only well-understood for QFTs that are quasi-local and non-interacting. In this paper we propose the magic cMERA, a concrete realization of cMERA for a free boson QFT that simultaneously satisfies four remarkable properties: (i) it is the exact ground state of a strictly local Hamiltonian; (ii) in the massless case, its spectrum of scaling operators is exactly soluble in real space; (iii) it has the short-distance structure of a cMPS; (iv) it is generated by a quasi-local entangler that can be written as a continuous matrix product operator. None of these properties is fulfilled by previous cMERA proposals. Properties (iii)-(iv) establish a firm connection between cMERA and cMPS wavefunctionals, opening the path to applying powerful cMPS numerical techniques, valid for interacting QFTs, also to cMERA calculations.

4+8 pages, 4 figures

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