Entanglement renormalization, scale invariance, and quantum criticality

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Pfeifer, Robert N C ^a   Evenbly, Glen ^a   Vidal, Guifré ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL FIELD THEORIES; CONTINUUM LIMITS; CRITICAL EXPONENTS; CRITICAL HAMILTONIANS; LATTICE MODELS; LOCAL OBSERVABLES; MULTI-SCALE; QUANTUM CRITICALITIES; RENORMALIZATION; SCALE INVARIANCES;

CORRELATORS;

CONTROL THEORY;

EID: 64649089997     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.040301     Document Type: Article

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