Mapping twist fields to local operators via tensor networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26208v1
• Date: Mon, 25 May 2026 18:00:01 GMT
• Title: Mapping twist fields to local operators via tensor networks
• Abstract summary: We construct explicit local operators acting on the physical Hilbert space whose expectation values reproduce the action of twist fields in matrix product states.<n>Our results provide a scalable and experimentally accessible framework to probe entanglement in quantum simulators.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Twist fields are a powerful formal tool to compute Rényi entropies in quantum many-body systems, but their conventional formulation in tensor network states involves operations acting on virtual degrees of freedom, which are not directly accessible in experiments. In this work, we construct explicit local operators acting on the physical Hilbert space whose expectation values reproduce the action of twist fields in matrix product states. Our construction is exact in the injectivity limit and when the tensor is chosen at the center of orthogonality, and provides a direct operational method to evaluate Rényi entropies without accessing auxiliary tensor indices. We test our formulation numerically in the transverse-field Ising model, demonstrating rapid convergence to the exact entanglement entropy as the injectivity scale is reached. Furthermore, we show that twist operators determined from relatively small reference systems can be reliably transferred to larger systems, once the reference size exceeds a characteristic scale set by the correlation length. Since the resulting operators admit a decomposition in terms of a finite number of local observables, our results provide a scalable and experimentally accessible framework to probe entanglement in quantum simulators.

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