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Chin. Phys. B, 2026, Vol. 35(6): 067101    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ae56e3
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Grassmann corner transfer-matrix renormalization group approach to one-dimensional fermionic models

Jian-Gang Kong(孔建刚)1 and Zhi-Yuan Xie(谢志远)1,2,†
1 School of Physics, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China;
2 Key Laboratory of Quantum State Construction and Manipulation of MoE, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China
Abstract  The strongly correlated fermions play a vital role in modern physics. For a given fermionic Hamiltonian system, the most widely used approach to exploring the underlying physics is to study the wave function that incorporates Fermi-Dirac statistics, which can be obtained variationally by energy minimization or by imaginary-time evolution. In this work, we develop an accurate tensor network method for one-dimensional interacting fermionic models based on the coherentstate path-integral representation of the fermionic partition function. Employing the coherent-state representation, the partition function is effectively represented as a (1+1)-dimensional anisotropic Grassmann-valued tensor network, and the Grassmann version of the corner transfer-matrix renormalization group algorithm is developed to contract the tensor network and evaluate physical quantities. We validate our method on the one-dimensional fermionic Hubbard model with a magnetic field, where the essential features of the phase diagram in the (μ,B) plane are quantitatively captured. Our work offers a promising approach to interacting fermionic models within the framework of tensor networks.
Keywords:  Grassmann tensor network      fermionic path integral      partition function  
Received:  24 January 2026      Revised:  15 March 2026      Accepted manuscript online:  25 March 2026
PACS:  71.10.Fd (Lattice fermion models (Hubbard model, etc.))  
  05.10.Cc (Renormalization group methods)  
Fund: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12274458) and the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant Nos. 2024YFA1408604 and 2023YFA1406500).
Corresponding Authors:  Zhi-Yuan Xie     E-mail:  qingtaoxie@ruc.edu.cn

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Jian-Gang Kong(孔建刚) and Zhi-Yuan Xie(谢志远) Grassmann corner transfer-matrix renormalization group approach to one-dimensional fermionic models 2026 Chin. Phys. B 35 067101

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