Unifying variational methods for simulating quantum many-body systems

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.100.130501zbMATH Open1228.82080arXiv0705.3456WikidataQ51877055 ScholiaQ51877055MaRDI QIDQ3107698FDOQ3107698

Authors: Christopher M. Dawson, Jens Eisert, Tobias J. Osborne 

Publication date: 26 December 2011

Published in: Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a unified formulation of variational methods for simulating ground state properties of quantum many-body systems. The key feature is a novel variational method over quantum circuits via infinitesimal unitary transformations, inspired by flow equation methods. Variational classes are represented as efficiently contractible unitary networks, including the matrix-product states of density matrix renormalization, multiscale entanglement renormalization (MERA) states, weighted graph states, and quantum cellular automata. In particular, this provides a tool for varying over classes of states, such as MERA, for which so far no efficient way of variation has been known. The scheme is flexible when it comes to hybridizing methods or formulating new ones. We demonstrate the functioning by numerical implementations of MERA, matrix-product states, and a new variational set on benchmarks.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.3456

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68)

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