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Exponential Thermal Tensor Network Approach for Quantum Lattice Models Chen et al., PRX 8 , 031082 (2018); arXiv:1811.01397 Andreas Weichselbaum Collaboration Bin-Bin Chen, Lei Chen, Ziyu Chen, Dai-Wei Qu, Han Li, Shou-Shu Gong, Wei Li


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Exponential Thermal Tensor Network Approach for Quantum Lattice Models

Andreas Weichselbaum

Collaboration Supported by German Research Foundation (WE4819/3-1) National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Department of Energy (DE-SC0012704) Bin-Bin Chen, Lei Chen, Ziyu Chen, Dai-Wei Qu, Han Li, Shou-Shu Gong, Wei Li (Beihang University, Beijing), Jan von Delft (LMU, Munich) Chen et al., PRX 8, 031082 (2018); arXiv:1811.01397

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Outline

q XTRG (exponential thermal tensor network renormalization group)

} Tensor network representation of thermal states for quasi-1D systems [in the spirit of 2D-DMRG, yet for finite !] } Entanglement in thermal states } Exponential energy scales and logarithmic " grid

q Benchmark: performance (numerical cost and accuracy) q Application: 2D spin-half triangular Heisenberg model

} Two temperature scales !# and !$ } `Roton-like’ excitations in intermediate regime !# ≲ ! ≲ !$ with significant chiral component

q Summary & outlook

[Chen et al., PRX 8, 031082 (2018)] [arXiv:1811.01397]

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Tensor network representation of thermal density matrix

! " # ≡ %&'(

) = + %&',-|/〉〈/| 2

= + !(4546…48), (45

<46 <…48 <)|=>=? … =@〉〈=>

A=? A … =@ A| 2

≡ => =@ =? ! =>

A

=@

A

=?

A

=> =@ =? =>

A

=@

A

=?

A

≡ ( =B = 1, … , D ) Z = tr[! " # ] = => =@ =? =>

A

=@

A

=?

A

= => =@ =?

=>

A

=@

A

=?

A

≡ Ψ Ψ

! " # = %&'

?( ) ?

= = ! #

?

∗ ! #

?

≡ Ψ ) LΨ ) always positive purification M N ≡ 1 Z tr ! "M N ≡ 1 Z tr Ψ )M NΨ ) L ≡ 1 Z 〈Ψ M N Ψ〉 Verstraete (2004) Schollwoeck (review DMRG; 2010) Thermofield approach (de Vega, Banuls; 2015; Schwarz et al, 2018) matrix product

  • perator

(MPO) OB = 1, … , P

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Entanglement scaling in thermal states in 1D

q Many-body finite size spectrum (critical systems, or !" ≫ gap Δ)

finite size level-spacing !" ∼ 1/, E !" "- ". / 0 / = 2 34567|9〉〈9|

<

ℓ > ℓ ∼ 2× A 6 log (ℓ)

, ∼ G ⇒ / ≳ !" ⇒ G ≲ ,

minimal requirement for thermal simulations

9 〈9|

⇒ > ℓ ∼ A 3 log ℓ entropy of thermal state More rigorous arguments based on conformal field theory (CFT)

  • J. Dubail [J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 50 (2017) 234001]
  • T. Barthel [arXiv:1708.09349 [quant-ph], 2017]

allows for efficient simulations

  • f thermal states (entanglement

entropy comparable to pure states with periodic BC) >(G) ∼ A 3 log (G) ⇓ ℓ → G Calabrese (2004)

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Implication #1: Thermal correlation length and symmetries

q ! " ≲ $

% log " independent of ) for ) → ∞

} finite correlation length - ∼ " in thermal state

q Therefore as long as - ≲L

} can use finite system with open BC to simulate thermodynamic limit } can exploit all symmetries (abelian and non-abelian) in an optimal way (note that thermal state / can never be symmetry broken)

≡ 12

3 ⋅ 15 =

e.g. spin-half site: 7 ∈ {1, 1}

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Implication #2: Exponential energy scales

q Weak growth of block entropy of thermal state ! " ∼ $

% ln "

} suggests that linear imaginary time evolution schemes are ill-suited e.g. Trotter: " → " + * with * ≪ " ,-./ ≃ ,-.1213/,-.455/ small Trotter error enforces small constant * for any "

q rather need to make bold steps when increasing " to see a significant change in physical properties within a critical regime natural choice: " → Λ" (Λ > 1) ⇒ :! ∼ const. simple choice: Λ = 2

B C *D → B C *D ∗ B C *D = B C 2*D → B C 2*D ∗ B C 2*D = B C 4*D → ⋯ "H = *D2H

exponential thermal tensor renormalization group (XTRG) *D 2*D 4*D 8*D 16*D

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!" 2!" 4!" 8!" 16!"

Benefits of logarithmic temperature grid

q Simple initialization of ( !"

} can start with exponentially small !" such that ( !" = 1 − !", } simply use the MPO of , ⇒ up to minor tweak, same MPO for ( !"

q No Trotter error

} no swap gates to deal with Trotter steps } simply applicable to longer range Hamiltonians } including (quasi-) 2D systems

q Maximal speed to reach large . with minimal number of truncation steps q Fine grained temperature resolution!

} using /-shifted temperature grids .0 = !"2012 with / ∈ [0,1[ } equivalent to using !" → !"22 } easy to parallelize: independent runs for logarithmically interleaved data sets

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Numerical cost of XTRG

q Naively

!" !# !$ !"

%

!#

%

!$

%

& &$ &

SVD → ) &*

q Variationally: +, ∗ +, − + /$,

$ → 012

& & & &

  • verlap → ) &3

q Computational gain by using symmetries: & states → &∗ multiplets e.g. SU(2) spin-half Heisenberg: &∗ ≃ &/4

→ )( &∗ 3)

× ~100

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Brief comparison to coarse graining renormalization

q Xie et al. (PRB 2012)

Coarse-graining renormalization by higher-order singular value decomposition

q starting point: Trotter gates q infinite tensor network

} no clean orthogonal vector spaces } no symmetries used

q no interleaved temperatures

} „However, the number of temperature points that can be studied with this approach is quite limited […], since the temperature is reduced by a factor of 2 at each contraction along the Trotter direction.” } linearized imaginary time evolution largely favored Similarly for Czarnik et al. (PRB 2015)

2D Ising model (D=24)

!

"

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Benchmark: performance

q XTRG is most accurate q XTRG is clearly fastest speed gain (for D*=100,200) LTRG SETTN XTRG Free energy ! = −

$ % log *

L=18 spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain (PBC; + = 1) XTRG . . exponential tensor renormalization group

  • → - ∗ -

LTRG . . linearized tensor renormalization group

  • → - ∗ -(12)

SETTN . series expansion thermal tensor network

  • → -(4) ∗ 56%7/9

×10 ×10 starting from the same - = -(12), proceed

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Block entanglement entropy

L=200 spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain (OBC; ! = 1)

  • log. growth $ ∼ &

' log +

with , = 0.999 universal $ ∼ +0 behavior for very large temperatures where $ ≪ 1 (irrespective of the physics or dimensionality of the model!) This offers an alternative to compute central charge via finite-2 simulation using open BC! In comparison to Calabrese (2004) for obtaining , from ground states with periodic BC

  • comparable block entropy scaling
  • no system size dependence as long

as 3 ≳ 5

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Specific heat and critical exponents

L=300 spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain (! = 1) Specific heat at low temperatures $% = &'

() * with + = & , ⇒ $ = 0.996

at large temperatures: universal 1/*, behavior (irrespective of the physics or dimensionality

  • f the model!)
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Application

Two Temperature Scales in the Triangular Lattice Heisenberg (TLH) Antiferromagnet

arXiv:1811.01397 [cond-mat.str-el]

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2D triangular Heisenberg model (S=1/2)

q What is known (theory)

} 120˚ magnetically ordered state at T=0: !" = 0.205(15), [White et al. (2007)] } paramagnetic at large T } problem [Kulagin et al (2013) using `sign-blessed’ BDQMC]: data extrapolates to disordered, i.e., non-magnetic state for + → 0 !?

J

paramagnetic incipient 120

  • order

T

??

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Roton-like excitations in the TLH

Magnon spectra [Zheng (2006)]

series expansion linear spine wave theory (LSWT) LSWT + 1/S corrections effective `massive’ quasiparticles at finite energy with Δ ≃ 0.55 Zheng et al., PRB (2006) Starykh et al., PRB(R) (2006) Zheng (2006): We have called this feature a “roton” in analogy with similar minima that

  • ccur in the excitation spectra of super-fluid

4He and the fractional quantum Hall effect.

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Triangular lattice Hubbard model (DMRG @ T=0)

Szasz et al. (condmat, 2018) Non-magnetic intermediate phase q chiral and gapped q relevant in the large U limit (Heisenberg model) at finite !? ℏ = 2 YC4 data

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Experimental progress

q Ba8CoNb6O24 - close to ideal 2D triangular Heisenberg material!

} Perovskite, first synthesized [Mallinson et al. (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2005)] } equilateral effective spin-1/2 Co2+ triangular layers separated by six nonmagnetic layers. } [Rawl et al., 2017] A spin-1/2 triangular Heisenberg antiferromagnet in the 2D limit } [Cui et al., 2018] Mermin-Wagner physics, (H,T) phase diagram, and candidate quantum spin-liquid phase in the spin-1/2 triangular antiferromagnet Ba8CoNb6O24 Ba3CoNb2O9 : 7.23Å (2 non-magnetic layers) magnetic contribution to specific heat (by ref. to non-magnetic compound Ba8ZnTa6O24)

[Rawl (2017)] J=1.66 K

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XTRG data

For sufficiently large system sizes

q consistently, two energy scales !" ≃ 0.2 and !' ≃ 0.55 q in agreement with experiment (“thermodynamic limit”) TPO . . . tensor product operator method (complimentary to XTRG) RSBMF . reconstructed Schwinger boson mean field [Mezio et al, NJP (2012)] Roton . . roton contribution only [Zheng et al, PRB (2006)] HTSE . . high temperature series expansion (Elstner et al, PRL (1993)] Pade . . a particular way to deal with the low-T divergence of the partition function in HTSE [Rawl (2017)] q `roton’ contribution only relevant for ! ≳ !" q strongly enhanced thermal entropy for ! ≲ !" due to frustration

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TLH spin structure factor (YC6×12 data)

S(q) ⌘ X

j

e−iq·r0j hS0 · SjiT

q S(0) measures magnetic susceptibility "# = %

&'(0)

q S(K) measures 120˚ magnetization + ≃ 0.265 vs. 0.205 [White et al, 2007] q S(M) measures nearest neighbor AF correlations ⇨ anomalous with maximum around "2 3 = 24 3 (1, 3) 8 = 24 3 (0, 3) ) b ( ) a ( ) d ( ) c ( (e)

K M

q

x

q

q

x

qx qx q

y

q

y

q

y

q

y

(f)

/ / / / /

  • /
  • /
  • /
  • T=5

T=0.54 T=0.2 T=0.1

4 1.1

q log. growth of MPO block entanglement '9 = : ln = + ? for " ≲ "A q For comparison: "A absent for square Heisenberg cylinder (SC6)

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Correlation length !

T

10 5, D*=800 D*=1000 12 6, D*=800 D*=1000 15 6, D*=600 D*=800 HTSE

T h~0.55 T l~0.2 ~T-1/2e0.1/T

ξ2 =

1 4S(K)

X

j

r2

0j e−iK·r0j hS0 · Sji

q very short correlation length! " ≲ 2 down to &' q justifies relevance of ( ≤ 6 data q " ∝ &,-

. exp(34

56) predicted by field-theoretical arguments [Chakravarty et al, PRL 1988]

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Significant chiral component in intermediate regime

q significant chiral component in intermediate regime! q chiral contribution cut off only at ! ≲ !# $ = ⟨'( ⋅ ('+×'-)⟩ i 1 2 3 For comparison: triangular lattice Hubbard model at T=0 [Szasz et al., condmat (2018)]

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Special case: YC4

q strong competition between RVB-type NN correlations (!≳!#) and 120˚ incipient order (! < !#) q maximum in chiral correlations is linked to !#

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Summary: 2D triangular Heisenberg model (S=1/2)

J

incipient 120 o order paramagnetic

Tl

Th

T

intermediate

A B

J

2

~0.55 ~0.2

W L

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Summary

q XTRG

} an extremely simple, yet efficient and accurate tensor-network approach to thermal states: ! → ! ∗ ! resulting in $ → 2$ } motivated by entanglement scaling & ∼

( ) log $

} no Trotterization whatsoever ⇨ no Trotter error, no swap gates, etc. } simply applicable to longer-range interactions (quasi-2D), truncation permitting } clean exploitation of all symmetries in the Hamiltonian

q Application: Triangular lattice Heisenberg model

} Unified picture to describe crossover from high to low temperature with 2 crossover scales ./ and .0 } incipient 120˚ order for . ≲ ./ } intermediate temperature regime dominated by roton-like excitations with significant chiral component

[Chen et al., PRX 2018] Supported by German Research Foundation (WE4819/3-1) National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Department of Energy (DE-SC0012704) [arXiv:1811.01397]