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Main Authors: Liu, Qiyu, Herre, Jan-Niklas, Kennes, Dante M., Karrasch, Christoph
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12851
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author Liu, Qiyu
Herre, Jan-Niklas
Kennes, Dante M.
Karrasch, Christoph
author_facet Liu, Qiyu
Herre, Jan-Niklas
Kennes, Dante M.
Karrasch, Christoph
contents We develop variational continuous unitary transformations (VCUTs), which integrate Wegner-Wilson flow equations with tensor network techniques to approximately diagonalize many-body localized (MBL) Hamiltonians. The diagonalizing unitary is represented as a matrix product operator whose bond dimension controls the accuracy. For the disordered Heisenberg chain, VCUTs accurately reproduces the full spectrum across the ergodic-to-MBL crossover at small system sizes and scales to $L = 48$ sites. Beyond eigenenergies, the method can track the spatial entanglement structure of the diagonalizing unitary $U(l)$ at each flow step, enabling identification of local integrals of motion deep in the MBL phase.
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spellingShingle Continuous unitary transformations using tensor network representations access the full many-body localized spectrum
Liu, Qiyu
Herre, Jan-Niklas
Kennes, Dante M.
Karrasch, Christoph
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
We develop variational continuous unitary transformations (VCUTs), which integrate Wegner-Wilson flow equations with tensor network techniques to approximately diagonalize many-body localized (MBL) Hamiltonians. The diagonalizing unitary is represented as a matrix product operator whose bond dimension controls the accuracy. For the disordered Heisenberg chain, VCUTs accurately reproduces the full spectrum across the ergodic-to-MBL crossover at small system sizes and scales to $L = 48$ sites. Beyond eigenenergies, the method can track the spatial entanglement structure of the diagonalizing unitary $U(l)$ at each flow step, enabling identification of local integrals of motion deep in the MBL phase.
title Continuous unitary transformations using tensor network representations access the full many-body localized spectrum
topic Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12851