Unifying variational methods for simulating quantum many-body systems

Details Unifying variational methods for simulating quantum many-body systems Unifying variational methods for simulating quantum many-body systems

2007-05-24

arxiv.org/abs/0705.3456v3

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 130501 (2008)

Physics

Quantum Physics

5 pages, 3 figures, replaced with published version

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.130501

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.

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