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arxiv: 1210.6613 · v2 · pith:7DETRYS7new · submitted 2012-10-24 · 🪐 quant-ph · cond-mat.str-el

Frustration free gapless Hamiltonians for Matrix Product States

classification 🪐 quant-ph cond-mat.str-el
keywords hamiltonianstatefreefrustrationgroundparentso-calledcase
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For every Matrix Product State (MPS) one can always construct a so-called parent Hamiltonian. This is a local, frustration free, Hamiltonian which has the MPS as ground state and is gapped. Whenever that parent Hamiltonian has a degenerate ground state (the so-called non-injective case), we construct another 'uncle' Hamiltonian which is local and frustration free but gapless, and its spectrum is $\R^+$. The construction is obtained by linearly perturbing the matrices building up the state in a random direction, and then taking the limit where the perturbation goes to zero. For MPS where the parent Hamiltonian has a unique ground state (the so-called injective case) we also build such uncle Hamiltonian with the same properties in the thermodynamic limit.

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