Infinite Matrix Product States for Spin-Liquid Wavefunctions

ORAL

Abstract

Quantum spin liquids are disordered ground states of interacting spin systems. As such they cannot be characterized by a local order parameter. Instead, entanglement measures, such as the entanglement spectrum and entanglement entropy, can be used to detect the presence of topological order.
We present here a highly parallelizable, efficient method to obtain an infinite matrix product state for Gutzwiller projected mean-field wave-functions, a common variational class of wavefunctions used to study quantum spin liquids. We then extract the entanglement spectrum from the iMPS using it to understand the topological properties of these states.

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Presenters

  • Gabriel Petrica

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Authors

  • Gabriel Petrica

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Bo-Xiao Zheng

    • California Institute of Technology
  • Garnet Chan

    • Caltech
    • California Institute of Technology
    • Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
  • Bryan Clark

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign