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most citedVariational optimization algorithms for uniform matrix product states

270 citations · 2.3k across the 66 of their papers we have counts for

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68 papers

cond-mat.str-el2026

Corner entanglement scaling with projected entangled pair states

Chloé Van Bastelaere, Rui-Zhen Huang, Laurens Vanderstraeten

Entanglement scaling provides a powerful probe of universal properties at quantum critical points. In two dimensions, contributions originating from a corner-shaped bipartition exh…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Anyon-Impurity Bound States in Quantum-Engineered Fractional Chern Insulators

Botao Wang, Amit Vashisht, Felix A. Palm +3

Mobile impurities provide a powerful means of probing correlated and topological quantum matter, through their dressing by the surrounding medium and the practical probes granting…

quant-ph2026

Matrix Product Operator Encodings of the Magnus Expansion and Dyson Series

Victor Vanthilt, Maarten Van Damme, Jutho Haegeman +2

We introduce a matrix product operator (MPO) encoding of the Magnus expansion and the Dyson series for one-dimensional quantum lattice models with time-dependent Hamiltonians. The…

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Competition between pair and single-particle superfluidity in bosonic quasi-flat bands: A Gaussian state approach

Maxime Burgher, Simon Loddo, Laurens Vanderstraeten +2

The interplay between interactions and quantum geometry can drive weakly dispersive bosons into different exotic many-body phases. In this work we study a quasi flat-band model in…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Dynamical dimer structure factor of the triangular Heisenberg antiferromagnet

Markus Drescher, Laurens Vanderstraeten, Roderich Moessner +2

The dynamical dimer structure factor is an observable probing spin-singlet excitations of quantum magnets distinct from those commonly studied by the spin structure factor. We repo…

quant-ph2026

Gauge-covariant projected entangled paired states for interacting systems in a magnetic field

Wei Tang, Gunnar Möller, Frank Verstraete +1

The Hamiltonian for a system of itinerant particles on a two-dimensional lattice in a uniform magnetic field reduces the translational symmetry to a magnetic translation group, bec…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Interface roughening in the 3-D Ising model with tensor networks

Atsushi Ueda, Lander Burgelman, Luca Tagliacozzo +1

Interfaces in three-dimensional many-body systems can exhibit rich phenomena beyond the corresponding bulk properties. In particular, they can fluctuate and give rise to massless l…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Fractional Chern insulators on cylinders: Tao-Thouless states and beyond

Felix A. Palm, Chloé Van Bastelaere, Laurens Vanderstraeten

Topological phases in two-dimensional quantum lattice models are often studied on cylinders for revealing different topological properties and making the problem numerically tracta…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025

Fractional Quantum Hall Wedding Cakes

Chloé Van Bastelaere, Felix A. Palm, Botao Wang +2

This work investigates the coexistence of distinct topologically ordered phases within a single setup. We demonstrate this concept through tensor network simulations of the Hofstad…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Spectral Functions of an Extended Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Model on the Triangular Lattice

Markus Drescher, Laurens Vanderstraeten, Roderich Moessner +1

We study an extended spin- antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice, which includes both nearest- and next-nearest-neighbor interactions, as well as a scal…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Gauging the variational optimization of projected entangled-pair states

Wei Tang, Laurens Vanderstraeten, Jutho Haegeman

Projected entangled-pair states (PEPS) constitute a powerful variational ansatz for capturing ground state physics of two-dimensional quantum systems. However, accurately computing…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Quantitative Description of Strongly Correlated Materials by Combining Downfolding Techniques and Tensor Networks

Daan Vrancken, Simon Ganne, Daan Verraes +5

We present a high-accuracy procedure for electronic structure calculations of strongly correlated materials. To address limitations in current electronic structure methods, we empl…

quant-ph2024

Dynamic Realization of Majorana Zero Modes in a Particle-Conserving Ladder

Anais Defossez, Laurens Vanderstraeten, Lucila Peralta Gavensky +1

We present a scheme to realize a topological superconducting system supporting Majorana zero modes, within a number-conserving framework suitable for optical-lattice experiments. O…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 3 cited

Finite-size scaling on the torus with periodic projected entangled-pair states

Gleb Fedorovich, Lukas Devos, Jutho Haegeman +3

An efficient algorithm is constructed for contracting two-dimensional tensor networks under periodic boundary conditions. The central ingredient is a novel renormalization step tha…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 2 cited

Non-Landau quantum phase transition in modulated SU(N) Heisenberg spin chains

Sylvain Capponi, Lukas Devos, Philippe Lecheminant +2

We investigate the nature of the quantum phase transition in modulated SU(N) Heisenberg spin chains. In the odd-N case, the transition separates a trivial non-degenerate phase to a…

cond-mat.quant-gas2024★ 10 cited

Chiral polaron formation on the edge of topological quantum matter

Amit Vashisht, Ivan Amelio, Laurens Vanderstraeten +3

Immersing a mobile impurity in a quantum many-body environment can reveal fundamental properties of the background medium, hence providing a powerful probe of quantum matter. This…

quant-ph2024★ 20 cited

Fermionic tensor network methods

Quinten Mortier, Lukas Devos, Lander Burgelman +5

We show how fermionic statistics can be naturally incorporated in tensor networks on arbitrary graphs through the use of graded Hilbert spaces. This formalism allows to use tensor…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 16 cited

Generating function for projected entangled-pair states

Wei-Lin Tu, Laurens Vanderstraeten, Norbert Schuch +3

Diagrammatic summation is a common bottleneck in modern applications of projected entangled-pair states, especially in computing low-energy excitations of a two-dimensional quantum…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 15 cited

Phase diagram of the chiral SU(3) antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice

Yi Xu, Sylvain Capponi, Ji-Yao Chen +6

Motivated by the search for chiral spin liquids (CSL), we consider a simple model defined on the kagome lattice of interacting SU(3) spins (in the fundamental representation) inclu…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 20 cited

Emergent conformal boundaries from finite-entanglement scaling in matrix product states

Rui-Zhen Huang, Long Zhang, Andreas M. Läuchli +3

The use of finite entanglement scaling with matrix product states (MPS) has become a crucial tool for studying 1+1d critical lattice theories, especially those with emergent confor…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 13 cited

Extracting the Speed of Light from Matrix Product States

Alexander A. Eberharter, Laurens Vanderstraeten, Frank Verstraete +1

We provide evidence that the spectrum of the local effective Hamiltonian and the transfer operator in infinite-system matrix product state simulations are identical up to a global…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 1 cited

Efficient higher-order matrix product operators for time evolution

Maarten Van Damme, Jutho Haegeman, Ian McCulloch +1

We introduce a systematic construction of higher-order matrix product operator (MPO) approximations of the time evolution operator for generic (short and long range) one-dimensiona…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 37 cited

Dynamical Signatures of Symmetry Broken and Liquid Phases in an Heisenberg Antiferromagnet on the Triangular Lattice

Markus Drescher, Laurens Vanderstraeten, Roderich Moessner +1

We present the dynamical spin structure factor of the antiferromagnetic spin- Heisenberg model on a triangular lattice obtained from large-scale matrix-produ…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 22 cited

Partial lifting of degeneracy in the Ising antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice

Jeanne Colbois, Bram Vanhecke, Laurens Vanderstraeten +3

Motivated by dipolar-coupled artificial spin systems, we present a theoretical study of the classical Ising antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice. We establish the gr…