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Gauss Law, Minimal Coupling and Fermionic PEPS for Lattice Gauge Theories
by Patrick Emonts, Erez Zohar
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| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Patrick Emonts |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01294v4 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | 2020-01-07 |
| Date submitted: | 2019-12-20 01:00 |
| Submitted by: | Emonts, Patrick |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Lecture Notes |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approaches: | Theoretical, Computational |
Abstract
In these lecture notes, we review some recent works on Hamiltonian lattice gauge theories, that involve, in particular, tensor network methods. The results reviewed here are tailored together in a slightly different way from the one used in the contexts where they were first introduced, by looking at the Gauss law from two different points of view: for the gauge field it is a differential equation, while from the matter point of view, on the other hand, it is a simple, explicit algebraic equation. We will review and discuss what these two points of view allow and do not allow us to do, in terms of unitarily gauging a pure-matter theory and eliminating the matter from a gauge theory, and relate that to the construction of PEPS (Projected Entangled Pair States) for lattice gauge theories.
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We modified the last paragraph of 4.3 to contain the extra information requested by the referee.
Published as SciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 12 (2020)