Quantum Circuits for Scale Transformations

Abstract

In this note we develop quantum circuits for exactly simulating the thermal properties of the quantum XY/Ising chain. These circuits are applicable to the simplest integrable lattice models for which the exact momentum-space scattering-matrix can be constructed in terms of local two-body gates. We discuss a circuit analogy for Wilsonian renormalization group flow and show how it can be used to simulate a global coarse graining transformation. We then construct a circuit that transforms the ground state of these models into the thermo-field double state, and show how it can be used to implement a local scale transformation.