Loop Optimization of Tensor Network Renormalization: Algorithms and Applications
| dc.contributor.author | Bao, Chenfeng | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-22T17:22:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-05-22T17:22:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-05-22 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Loop optimization for tensor network renormalization (loop-TNR) is a real-space renormalization group algorithm suitable for studying 1+1D critical systems. While the original proposal by Yang et al. focused on classical models, we extend this algorithm with new techniques to enable accurate and efficient extraction of conformal data from critical quantum models. Benchmark results are provided for a number of quantum models, including ones described by non-minimal or non-unitary conformal field theories, showcasing both the strengths and limitations of loop-TNR. We discuss the subtle issue of non-analytic finite size effect in quantum lattice models and its impact on loop-TNR, and propose the use of virtual-space transfer-matrix to circumvent it, using the XY model as a demonstration. We then generalize loop-TNR to fermionic systems by incorporating Grassmann numbers, and benchmark the generalized algorithm on the t-V model. Next, we demonstrate a non-trivial application of loop-TNR by studying the 1D domain wall between untwisted and twisted 2D lattice gauge theories of finite groups G. We numerically study such domain walls for G = Z_N (with N<6) using loop-TNR, and discover a large class of gapless models. We also study the physical mechanism for these gapless domain walls and propose quantum field theory descriptions that agree perfectly with our numerical results. By taking advantage of the classification and construction of twisted gauge models using group cohomology theory, we systematically construct general lattice models to realize gapless domain walls for arbitrary finite symmetry group G. Such constructions can be generalized into arbitrary dimensions and might provide us a systematical way to study gapless domain walls and topological quantum phase transitions. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/14674 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.pending | false | |
| dc.publisher | University of Waterloo | en |
| dc.subject | tensor networks | en |
| dc.subject | many-body physics | en |
| dc.subject | quantum physics | en |
| dc.subject | statistical physics | en |
| dc.title | Loop Optimization of Tensor Network Renormalization: Algorithms and Applications | en |
| dc.type | Doctoral Thesis | en |
| uws-etd.degree | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
| uws-etd.degree.department | Physics and Astronomy | en |
| uws-etd.degree.discipline | Physics | en |
| uws-etd.degree.grantor | University of Waterloo | en |
| uws.contributor.advisor | Turok, Neil | |
| uws.contributor.affiliation1 | Faculty of Science | en |
| uws.peerReviewStatus | Unreviewed | en |
| uws.published.city | Waterloo | en |
| uws.published.country | Canada | en |
| uws.published.province | Ontario | en |
| uws.scholarLevel | Graduate | en |
| uws.typeOfResource | Text | en |