Variational principle for the time evolution operator, its usefulness in effective theories of condensed matter systems and a glimpse into the role played by the quantum geometry of unitary transformations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09512v1
• Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 10:26:26 GMT
• Title: Variational principle for the time evolution operator, its usefulness in effective theories of condensed matter systems and a glimpse into the role played by the quantum geometry of unitary transformations
• Authors: Michael Vogl,
• Abstract summary: We show how a generalization of the quantum geometric tensor for unitary operators plays a central role in parameter evolution.<n>We demonstrate that our results can also be employed to improve degenerate perturbation theory in a non-perturbative fashion.<n>Our work hints at how the appearance of mathematically beautiful concepts like quantum geometry can indicate an opportunity to dig for approximations beyond typical perturbation theory.
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• Abstract: This work discusses a variational approach to determining the time evolution operator. We directly see a glimpse of how a generalization of the quantum geometric tensor for unitary operators plays a central role in parameter evolution. We try the method with the simplest ansatz (a power series in a time-independent Hamiltonian), which yields considerable improvements over a Taylor series. These improvements are because, unlike for a Taylor series of $\exp(-iHt)$, time $t$ is not forced to appear in the same order as $H$, giving more flexibility for the description. We demonstrate that our results can also be employed to improve degenerate perturbation theory in a non-perturbative fashion. We concede that our approach described here is most useful for finite-dimensional Hamiltonians. As a first example of applications to perturbation theory, we present AB bilayer graphene, which we downfolded to a 2x2 model; our energy results considerably improve typical second-order degenerate perturbation theory. We then demonstrate that the approach can also be used to derive a non-perturbatively valid Heisenberg Hamiltonian. Here, the approach for a finite-size lattice yields excellent results. However, the corrections are not ideal for the thermodynamic limit (they depend on the number of sites $N$). Nevertheless, the approach adds almost no additional technical complications over typical perturbative expansions of unitary operators, making it ready for deployment in physics questions. One should expect considerably improved couplings for the degenerate perturbation theory of finite-size systems. More work is needed in the many-body case, and we suggest a possible remedy to issues with the thermodynamic limit. Our work hints at how the appearance of mathematically beautiful concepts like quantum geometry can indicate an opportunity to dig for approximations beyond typical perturbation theory

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