Obtaining highly excited eigenstates of the localized XX chain via DMRG-X

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2016.0431MaRDI QIDQ4644934zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Trithep Devakul, Vedika Khemani, Frank Pollmann, S. L. Sondhi, David A. Huse

Publication date 9 January 2019

Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.07721

zbMATH Keywords

benchmarknumericaldensity matrix renormalization grouplocalizedXX chain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

Abstract: We benchmark a variant of the recently introduced DMRG-X algorithm against exact results for the localized random field XX chain. We find that the eigenstates obtained via DMRG-X exhibit a highly accurate l-bit description for system sizes much bigger than the direct, many body, exact diagonalization in the spin variables is able to access. We take advantage of the underlying free fermion description of the XX model to accurately test the strengths and limitations of this algorithm for large system sizes. We discuss the theoretical constraints on the performance of the algorithm from the entanglement properties of the eigenstates, and its actual performance at different values of disorder. A small but significant improvement to the algorithm is also presented, which helps significantly with convergence. We find that at high entanglement, DMRG-X shows a bias towards eigenstates with low entanglement, but can be improved with increased bond dimension. This result suggests that one must be careful when applying the algorithm for interacting many body localized spin models near a transition.

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