Entanglement bipartitioning and tree tensor networks

Abstract: We propose the entanglement bipartitioning approach to design an optimal network structure of the tree-tensor-network (TTN) for quantum many-body systems. Given an exact ground-state wavefunction, we perform sequential bipartitioning of spin-cluster nodes so as to minimize the mutual information or the maximum loss of the entanglement entropy associated with the branch to be bipartitioned. We demonstrate that entanglement bipartitioning of up to 16 sites gives rise to nontrivial tree network structures for $S=1/2$ Heisenberg models in one and two dimensions. The resulting TTNs enable us to obtain better variational energies, compared with standard TTNs such as uniform matrix product state and perfect-binary-tree tensor network.