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Matrix Product States and Projected Entangled Pair States: Concepts, Symmetries, and Theorems

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arxiv 2011.12127 v2 pith:KUQJMS3T submitted 2020-11-24 quant-ph cond-mat.stat-mechcond-mat.str-elhep-th

Matrix Product States and Projected Entangled Pair States: Concepts, Symmetries, and Theorems

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The theory of entanglement provides a fundamentally new language for describing interactions and correlations in many body systems. Its vocabulary consists of qubits and entangled pairs, and the syntax is provided by tensor networks. We review how matrix product states and projected entangled pair states describe many-body wavefunctions in terms of local tensors. These tensors express how the entanglement is routed, act as a novel type of non-local order parameter, and we describe how their symmetries are reflections of the global entanglement patterns in the full system. We will discuss how tensor networks enable the construction of real-space renormalization group flows and fixed points, and examine the entanglement structure of states exhibiting topological quantum order. Finally, we provide a summary of the mathematical results of matrix product states and projected entangled pair states, highlighting the fundamental theorem of matrix product vectors and its applications.

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