Faster methods for contracting infinite two-dimensional tensor networks

Funding

M.F. acknowledges helpful feedback from P.R. Corboz and T. Nishino. M.F. would also like to thank S.R. White and E.M. Stoudenmire for useful input on the presentation of the results. The authors gratefully acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) under Grant No. DGE-1144469 (M.F.), the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): F4104 SFB ViCoM and F4014 SFB FoQuS (V.Z.-S. and F.V.), and the European Research Council (ERC) under Grant No. 715861 (J.H.). J.H. and L.V. are supported by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 647905). This work used the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), which is supported by National Science Foundation Grant No. ACI-1548562.