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Frustration free gapless Hamiltonians for Matrix Product States

Authors :
Fernández-González, Carlos
Schuch, Norbert
Wolf, Michael M.
Cirac, J. Ignacio
Pérez-García, David
Source :
Commun. Math. Phys. 333, 299-333 (2015)
Publication Year :
2012

Abstract

For every Matrix Product State (MPS) one can always construct a so-called parent Hamiltonian. This is a local, frustration free, Hamiltonian which has the MPS as ground state and is gapped. Whenever that parent Hamiltonian has a degenerate ground state (the so-called non-injective case), we construct another 'uncle' Hamiltonian which is local and frustration free but gapless, and its spectrum is $\R^+$. The construction is obtained by linearly perturbing the matrices building up the state in a random direction, and then taking the limit where the perturbation goes to zero. For MPS where the parent Hamiltonian has a unique ground state (the so-called injective case) we also build such uncle Hamiltonian with the same properties in the thermodynamic limit.<br />Comment: 36 pages, new version with some contents rearranged, and a correction in the injective case

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
Commun. Math. Phys. 333, 299-333 (2015)
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1210.6613
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-014-2173-z