Code
3F024013
Duration
01 October 2013 → 30 September 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Applied mathematics in specific fields
- Astronomy and space sciences
- Classical physics
- Condensed matter physics and nanophysics
- Elementary particle and high energy physics
- Materials physics
- Mathematical physics
- Quantum physics
Keywords
elementary excitation spectra
matrix product states
quantum many-body physics
spectral functions
Project description
The ground state of one-dimensional quantum systems is succesfully described by (continuous) matrix product states. On top of this variational vacuum, elementary excitations can be created, so that we have access to the low-lying excitation spectrum with few computational costs. In this project we want to extend this framework to capture the scattering of elementary excitations, create multi-particle excitations and compute spectral functions.