Tensor RG approach to high-temperature fixed point

DOI10.1007/S10955-022-02924-4zbMATH Open1489.82031arXiv2107.11464OpenAlexW3185806653WikidataQ114225305 ScholiaQ114225305MaRDI QIDQ2133670FDOQ2133670

Tom Kennedy, Slava Rychkov

Publication date: 5 May 2022

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a renormalization group (RG) map for tensor networks that include two-dimensional lattice spin systems such as the Ising model. Numerical studies of such RG maps have been quite successful at reproducing the known critical behavior. In those numerical studies the RG map must be truncated to keep the dimension of the legs of the tensors bounded. Our tensors act on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space, and our RG map does not involve any truncations. Our RG map has a trivial fixed point which represents the high-temperature fixed point. We prove that if we start with a tensor that is close to this fixed point tensor, then the iterates of the RG map converge in the Hilbert-Schmidt norm to the fixed point tensor. It is important to emphasize that this statement is not true for the simplest tensor network RG map in which one simply contracts four copies of the tensor to define the renormalized tensor. The linearization of this simple RG map about the fixed point is not a contraction due to the presence of so-called CDL tensors. Our work provides a first step towards the important problem of the rigorous study of RG maps for tensor networks in a neighborhood of the critical point.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.11464

zbMATH Keywords

renormalization grouptensor networksconvergence proofhigh-temperature phase

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28)

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