Matrix product decomposition for two- and three-flavor Wilson fermions: Benchmark results in the lattice Gross-Neveu model at finite density

Abstract

We formulate the path integral of two- and three-flavor Wilson fermion in two dimensions as a multilayer Grassmann tensor network by the matrix product decomposition. Thanks to this new description, the memory cost scaling is reduced from $\mathrm{O}({\mathrm{e}}^{N_f})$ for the conventional construction to $\mathrm{O}(N_f)$. Based on this representation, we develop a coarse-graining algorithm where spatially or temporally adjacent Grassmann tensors are converted into a canonical form along a virtual direction before we carry out the spacetime coarse-graining. Benchmarking with the lattice Gross-Neveu model at finite density, we see that the Silver Blaze phenomenon in the pressure and number density is captured with relatively small bond dimensions.

Comments: 16 pages, 13 figures