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Single-magnon excited states of a Heisenberg spin chain using a quantum computer
S. Ranu, D. Stancil·June 30, 2022·DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.106.184402
Physics
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Abstract
Excited states of spin-chains play an important role in condensed matter physics. We present a method of calculating the single magnon excited states of the Heisenberg spin-chain that can be efficiently implemented on a quantum processor for small spin chains. Our method involves finding the stationary points of the energy vs wavenumber curve. We implement our method for 4-site and 8-site Heisenberg Hamiltonians using numerical techniques as well as using an IBM quantum processor. Finally, we give an insight into the circuit complexity and scaling of our proposed method.