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Obtaining highly excited eigenstates of the localized XX chain via DMRG-X

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Pollmann,  Frank
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Max Planck Society;

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Devakul, T., Khemani, V., Pollmann, F., Huse, D. A., & Sondhi, S. L. (2017). Obtaining highly excited eigenstates of the localized XX chain via DMRG-X. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London - Series A: Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 375(2108): 20160431. doi:10.1098/rsta.2016.0431.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0000-62E4-0
Abstract
We benchmark a variant of the recently introduced density matrix renormalization group (DMRG)-X algorithm against exact results for the localized random field XX chain. We find that the eigenstates obtained via DMRG-X exhibit a highly accurate l-bit description for system sizes much bigger than the direct, many-body, exact diagonalization in the spin variables is able to access. We take advantage of the underlying free fermion description of the XX model to accurately test the strengths and limitations of this algorithm for large system sizes. We discuss the theoretical constraints on the performance of the algorithm from the entanglement properties of the eigenstates, and its actual performance at different values of disorder. A small but significant improvement to the algorithm is also presented, which helps significantly with convergence. We find that, at high entanglement, DMRG-X shows a bias towards eigenstates with low entanglement, but can be improved with increased bond dimension. This result suggests that one must be careful when applying the algorithm for interacting many-body localized spin models near a transition.
This article is part of the themed issue 'Breakdown of ergodicity in quantum systems: from solids to synthetic matter'.