VBS/CFT Correspondence and Thermal Tensor Network

Abstract

It has been recently observed that the reduced density matrix of a two-dimensional (2D) valence bond solid state can be mapped onto the thermal density matrix of a 1D Heisenberg quantum spin chain. Motivated by the observation, I propose a very simple phenomenological theory for this type of correspondence based on a finite-temperature tensor network formalism recently developed. I adress close relationship and sharp difference between the present correspondence and multiscale entanglement renormalization ansatz in terms of network geometry.