Tree tensor networks and entanglement spectra

Abstract

A tree tensor network variational method is proposed to simulate quantum many-body systems with global symmetries where the optimization is reduced to individual charge configurations. A computational scheme is presented, namely how to extract the entanglement spectra in a bipartite splitting of a loopless tensor network across multiple links of the network, by constructing a matrix product operator for the reduced density operator and simulating its eigenstates. The entanglement spectra of 2×L, 3×L, and 4×L with either open or periodic boundary conditions on the rungs are studied using the presented methods, where it is found that the entanglement spectrum depends not only on the subsystem but also on the boundaries between the subsystems. © 2013 American Physical Society.