Unfrustrated qudit chains and their ground states
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Movassagh, Ramis; Farhi, Edward; Goldstone, Jeffrey; Nagaj, Daniel; Osborne, Tobias J.; Shor, Peter W.; ... Show more Show less
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We investigate chains of d-dimensional quantum spins (qudits) on a line with generic nearest-neighbor interactions without translational invariance. We find the conditions under which these systems are not frustrated, that is, when the ground states are also the common ground states of all the local terms in the Hamiltonians. The states of a quantum spin chain are naturally represented in the matrix product states (MPS) framework. Using imaginary time evolution in the MPS ansatz, we numerically investigate the range of parameters in which we expect the ground states to be highly entangled and find them hard to approximate using our MPS method.
Date issued
2010-07Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of PhysicsJournal
Physical Review A
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American Physical Society
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Movassagh, Ramis, et al. "Unfrustrated qudit chains and their ground states." Physical Review A 82.1 (2010): 012318. © 2010 The American Physical Society
Version: Final published version
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1050-2947
1094-1622