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Efficient quantum cluster algorithms for frustrated transverse field Ising antiferromagnets and Ising gauge theories

2018/12/13 by Sounak Biswas, Biswas, Sounak, Kedar Damle +1
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Physics and Astronomy · #Complex Network Analysis Techniques #Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) #Theoretical and Computational Physics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1812.05326

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Abstract

Working within the Stochastic Series Expansion (SSE) framework, we construct efficient quantum cluster algorithms for transverse field Ising antiferromagnets on the pyrochlore lattice and the planar pyrochlore lattice, for the fully frustrated square lattice Ising model in a transverse field (dual to the 2+1 dimensional odd Ising gauge theory), and for a transverse field Ising model with multi-spin interactions on the square lattice, which is dual to a 2+1 dimensional even Ising gauge theory (and reduces to the two dimensional quantum loop model in a certain limit). Our cluster algorithms use a microcanonical update procedure that generalizes and exploits the notion of "pre-marked motifs" introduced earlier in the context of a quantum cluster algorithm for triangular lattice transverse field Ising antiferromagnets. We demonstrate that the resulting algorithms are significantly more efficient than the standard link percolation based quantum cluster approach. We also introduce a new canonical update scheme that leads to a further improvement in measurement of some observables arising from its ability to make one-dimensional clusters in the "imaginary time" direction. Finally, we demonstrate that refinements in the choice of premarking strategies can lead to additional improvements in the efficiency of the microcanonical updates. As a first example of the physics that can be studied using these algorithmic developments, we obtain evidence for a power-law ordered intermediate-temperature phase associated with the two-step melting of long-range order in the fully frustrated square lattice transverse field Ising model.

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