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The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York

Quantics Tensor Trains: The Study of a Continuous Lattice Model and Beyond

Abstract

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<p>This four-chapter dissertation studies the efficient discretization of continuous variable functions with tensor train representation. The first chapter describes all the methodology used to discretize functions and store them efficiently. In this section, the algorithm tensor renormalization group is explained for self-containment purposes. The second chapter centers around the XY model. Quantics tensor trains are used to describe the transfer matrix of the model and compute one and two-dimensional quantities. The one dimensional magnitudes are compared to analytical results with an agreement close to machine precision. As for two dimensions, the analytical results cannot be computed. However, the critical temperature of the BKT transition is calculated and compared to state-of-the-art results, with good agreement between them. The third chapter describes how to solve differential and integral equations in one dimensions with tensor trains. Specifically, the heat equation and the Schrödinger’s equation with Ekham potential are solved with high accuracy. In the final chapter, the focus shifts to the study of the ability to guess the initial state of a qubit with a string of T measurements when it is evolving under an external field. The projective measurement limit behaves as expected, but the weak measurement displays a universal behavior independent of the field applied. There are 3 different appendices containing technical discussions about the dependence of the bond dimension with temperature, and the compressibility of certain functions.</p>

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Doctor of Philosophy
Level thesis:degree_level
Doctoral
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Physics
Grantor
The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York
Year dc:date.available
2024

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Bou Comas, Aleix
Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
  • Vadim Oganesyan
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Sarang Gopalakrishnan
  • Vladimir Rosenhaus
  • Tzu-Chieh Wei
  • Sriram Ganeshan
  • Miles E. Stoudenmire

Subjects

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Identifiers

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Repository record dc:identifier
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/5719
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:gc_etds-6832

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citation

Bou Comas, Aleix. Quantics Tensor Trains: The Study of a Continuous Lattice Model and Beyond. Doctoral thesis, The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York, 2024. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/5719