We study the structure of the continuous matrix product operator(cMPO)^([1]) for the transverse field Ising model(TFIM).We prove TFIM’s cMPO is solvable and has the form T=e^(-1/2H_(F)).H_(F) is a non-local free ferm...We study the structure of the continuous matrix product operator(cMPO)^([1]) for the transverse field Ising model(TFIM).We prove TFIM’s cMPO is solvable and has the form T=e^(-1/2H_(F)).H_(F) is a non-local free fermionic Hamiltonian on a ring with circumferenceβ,whose ground state is gapped and non-degenerate even at the critical point.The full spectrum of H_(F) is determined analytically.At the critical point,our results verify the state–operator-correspondence^([2]) in the conformal field theory(CFT).We also design a numerical algorithm based on Bloch state ansatz to calculate the lowlying excited states of general(Hermitian)cMPO.Our numerical calculations coincide with the analytic results of TFIM.In the end,we give a short discussion about the entanglement entropy of cMPO’s ground state.展开更多
基金supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDB30000000)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11774398 and T2121001)。
文摘We study the structure of the continuous matrix product operator(cMPO)^([1]) for the transverse field Ising model(TFIM).We prove TFIM’s cMPO is solvable and has the form T=e^(-1/2H_(F)).H_(F) is a non-local free fermionic Hamiltonian on a ring with circumferenceβ,whose ground state is gapped and non-degenerate even at the critical point.The full spectrum of H_(F) is determined analytically.At the critical point,our results verify the state–operator-correspondence^([2]) in the conformal field theory(CFT).We also design a numerical algorithm based on Bloch state ansatz to calculate the lowlying excited states of general(Hermitian)cMPO.Our numerical calculations coincide with the analytic results of TFIM.In the end,we give a short discussion about the entanglement entropy of cMPO’s ground state.