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I was wondering how to apply a local operator to an MPS and store as a new MPS? I simply want to have an MPS |psi> and want to apply Sz at site i to |psi>. When I use the op function, the output is of type ITensor, and it says there is no rule for * when applied to a type MPS.

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+2 votes
answered by (460 points)

Hi Nick,

I think you may want to extract the itensor on the ith site form the MPS, multiply the itensor by the op function, and then plug it back. For example like this,

psi.position(i);
auto newpsi = noprime(psi(i) * op(sites,"Sz", i));
psi.set(i, newpsi);

Best,

Yixuan

commented by (680 points)
Awesome, thank you Yixuan.
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answered by (70.1k points)

Hi Nick,
Yixuan's answer is correct and his solution is good. I also just added a code formula here with an answer to your question:
http://itensor.org/docs.cgi?vers=cppv3&page=formulas/mps_onesite_op

The formula I added is a bit more general, e.g. assuming the operator could come from anywhere and not only the op(sites,"Sz",i) function, though that is a very good way to get the "Sz" operator for your case. Also the formula does not call psi.position(i) because strictly speaking it's not necessary to do so for a one-site operation (since no truncation afterward is involved) but it can still be a good idea for reasons I discuss at the end of the formula page.

Miles

commented by (680 points)
Great, thank you Miles!
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