Solving frustration-free spin systems

Details Solving frustration-free spin systems Solving frustration-free spin systems

2010-05-20

arxiv.org/abs/1005.3781v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 060504 (2010)

Physics

Quantum Physics

5 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

We identify a large class of quantum many-body systems that can be solved exactly: natural frustration-free spin-1/2 nearest-neighbor Hamiltonians on arbitrary lattices. We show that the entire ground state manifold of such models can be found exactly by a tensor network of isometries acting on a space locally isomorphic to the symmetric subspace. Thus, for this wide class of models real-space renormalization can be made exact. Our findings also imply that every such frustration-free spin model satisfies an area law for the entanglement entropy of the ground state, establishing a novel large class of models for which an area law is known. Finally, we show that our approach gives rise to an ansatz class useful for the simulation of almost frustration-free models in a simple fashion, outperforming mean field theory.

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