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arxiv: 1112.3560 · v2 · pith:HWQJR334new · submitted 2011-12-15 · 🪐 quant-ph · cond-mat.quant-gas· cond-mat.str-el

Qubism: self-similar visualization of many-body wavefunctions

classification 🪐 quant-ph cond-mat.quant-gascond-mat.str-el
keywords imageimagesmany-bodyqubismvisualizationwavefunctionsatomcold
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A visualization scheme for quantum many-body wavefunctions is described, which we have termed qubism. Its main property is its recursivity: increasing the number of qubits reflects in an increase in the image resolution. Thus, the plots are typically fractal. As examples, we provide images for the ground states of commonly used Hamiltonians in condensed matter and cold atom physics, such as Heisenberg or ITF. Many features of the wavefunction, such as magnetization, correlations and criticality, can be visualized as properties of the images. In particular, factorizability can be easily spotted, and a way to estimate the entanglement entropy from the image is provided.

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