Ground states of unfrustrated spin Hamiltonians satisfy an area law

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/12/9/095007zbMATH Open1448.81093arXiv1009.3051OpenAlexW2016435819WikidataQ57637241 ScholiaQ57637241MaRDI QIDQ5135201FDOQ5135201

Authors: Niel de Beaudrap, Jens Eisert, Tobias J. Osborne 

Publication date: 19 November 2020

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

Abstract: We show that ground states of unfrustrated quantum spin-1/2 systems on general lattices satisfy an entanglement area law, provided that the Hamiltonian can be decomposed into nearest-neighbor interaction terms which have entangled excited states. The ground state manifold can be efficiently described as the image of a low-dimensional subspace of low Schmidt measure, under an efficiently contractible tree-tensor network. This structure gives rise to the possibility of efficiently simulating the complete ground space (which is in general degenerate). We briefly discuss "non-generic" cases, including highly degenerate interactions with product eigenbases, using a relationship to percolation theory. We finally assess the possibility of using such tree tensor networks to simulate almost frustration-free spin models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.3051

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Entanglement measures, concurrencies, separability criteria (81P42)

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