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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar

Tuesday, February 17, 2015
3:00pm to 4:00pm
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Annenberg 107
Characterizing Topological Order with Matrix Product Operators
Burak Sahinoglu, Universitat Wien,

In this talk, we focus on describing topologically ordered ground state
spaces of local Hamiltonians. This description includes a set of rules
(tensor equations) which are satisfied by a matrix product operator (MPO)
and the local tensor of the tensor network state (TNS). We see that these
rules are satisfied for string-net models by showing that the consistency
equations for these models correspond to our set of rules for a specific
local tensor and MPO. At the end, we will discuss possible future
directions.

For more information, please contact Jackie O'Sullivan by phone at 626.395.4964 or by email at [email protected].