A tensor network approach to 2D bosonization

Abstract

We present a 2D bosonization duality using the language of tensor networks. Specifically, we construct a tensor network operator (TNO) that implements an exact 2D bosonization duality. The primary benefit of the TNO is that it allows for bosonization at the level of quantum states. Thus, we use the TNO to provide an explicit algorithm for bosonizing fermionic projected entangled pair states (fPEPs). A key step in the algorithm is to account for a choice of spin-structure, encoded in a set of bonds of the bosonized fPEPS. This enables our tensor network approach to bosonization to be applied to systems on arbitrary triangulations of orientable 2D manifolds.