23–28 Jun 2014
Columbia University
US/Eastern timezone

Temperature dependence of the chiral condensate in the Schwinger model with Matrix Product States

24 Jun 2014, 15:15
20m
329 Pupin

329 Pupin

Talk Theoretical Developments Theoretical Developments

Speaker

Dr Hana Saito (DESY Zeuthen)

Description

Tensor network methods form a family of efficient techniques of approximating quantum states. Their successes in quantum many-body physics have inspired their use for lattice gauge theories. We employed one of the tensor network techniques, called Matrix Product States, to investigate the Schwinger model in the Hamiltonian formulation. In this talk, we show our results for the temperature dependence of the chiral condensate in the massless model and we compare to the analytical formula derived by Sachs and Wipf.

Primary author

Dr Hana Saito (DESY Zeuthen)

Co-authors

Dr J. Ignacio Cirac (Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics) Dr Karl Jansen (DESY Zeuthen) Dr Krzysztof Cichy (DESY Zeuthen) Dr Mari Carmen Banuls (Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics)

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