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The study of generic properties of quantum states has led to an abundance of insightful results. A meaningful set of states that can be efficiently prepared in experiments are ground states of gapped local Hamiltonians, which are well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Jonas Haferkamp , Christian Bertoni , Ingo Roth , Jens Eisert

In this paper we consider finite-dimensional constrained Hamiltonian systems of polynomial type. In order to compute the complete set of constraints and separate them into the first and second classes we apply the modern algorithmic methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Vladimir P. Gerdt , Soso A. Gogilidze

A fundamental problem in quantum many-body physics is that of finding ground states of local Hamiltonians. A number of recent works gave provably efficient machine learning (ML) algorithms for learning ground states. Specifically, [Huang et…

Reconstructing a quantum system's Hamiltonian from limited yet experimentally observable information is interesting both as a practical task and from a fundamental standpoint. We pose and investigate the inverse problem of reconstructing a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-09-12 Nisarga Paul , Andrew Ma , Kevin P. Nuckolls

We construct classical algorithms computing an approximation of the ground state energy of an arbitrary $k$-local Hamiltonian acting on $n$ qubits. We first consider the setting where a good ``guiding state'' is available, which is the main…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 François Le Gall

Bosonic Gaussian states are ubiquitous in quantum optics and condensed matter physics. While they are efficiently handled within the Gaussian formalism, sampling requires calculating amplitudes in the boson occupation basis. This step,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Tong Liu , Hui-Ke Jin , Tao Xiang , Hong-Hao Tu

Predicting observables in equilibrium states is a central yet notoriously hard question in quantum many-body systems. In the physically relevant thermodynamic limit, certain mathematical formulations of this task have even been shown to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi , Samuel O. Scalet

We study the conditions under which Matrix Product States (MPS) or Matrix Product Operators are exact eigenvectors of an extensive local operator, such as a Hamiltonian. By suitably choosing the local operator, this covers a wide range of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 José Garre Rubio , András Molnár , Norbert Schuch , Frank Verstraete

Here we present a problem related to the local Hamiltonian problem (identifying whether the ground state energy falls within one of two ranges) which is restricted to being translationally invariant. We prove that for problems with a fixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Alastair Kay

We present a matrix product state (MPS) algorithm to approximate ground states of translationally invariant systems with periodic boundary conditions. For a fixed value of the bond dimension D of the MPS, we discuss how to minimize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-21 B. Pirvu , F. Verstraete , G. Vidal

We present a scheme to perform an iterative variational optimization with infinite projected entangled-pair states (iPEPS), a tensor network ansatz for a two-dimensional wave function in the thermodynamic limit, to compute the ground state…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-02 Philippe Corboz

The local Hamiltonian problem consists of estimating the ground-state energy (given by the minimum eigenvalue) of a local quantum Hamiltonian. First, we show the existence of a good product-state approximation for the ground-state energy of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 Fernando G. S. L. Brandão , Aram W. Harrow

Density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) or matrix product states (MPS) is the most effective and accurate method for studying one-dimensional quantum many-body systems. However, the application of DMRG to two-dimensional systems is not…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-25 Xiangjian Qian , Mingpu Qin

We discuss the relations between restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) states and the matrix product states (MPS) for the ground states of 1D translational invariant stabilizer codes. A generic translational invariant and finitely connected…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-02 Yunqin Zheng , Huan He , Nicolas Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

A generic method to investigate many-body continuous-variable systems is pedagogically presented. It is based on the notion of matrix product states (so-called MPS) and the algorithms thereof. The method is quite versatile and can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 S. Iblisdir , R. Orus , J. I. Latorre

Counting ground state degeneracy of a $k$-local Hamiltonian is important in many fields of physics. Its complexity belongs to the problem of sharp bounded-error quantum polynomial time (#BQP) class and few methods are known for its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Zhen Guo , Li You

Finding the ground energy of a quantum system is a fundamental problem in condensed matter physics and quantum chemistry. Existing classical algorithms for tackling this problem often assume that the ground state has a succinct classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Jiaqing Jiang

We consider the relationship between correlations and entanglement in gapped quantum systems, with application to matrix product state representations. We prove that there exist gapped one-dimensional local Hamiltonians such that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 M. B. Hastings

Continuous Matrix Product States (cMPS) are powerful variational ansatz states for ground states of continuous quantum field theories in (1+1) dimension. In this paper we introduce a novel parametrization of the cMPS wave function based on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Martin Ganahl

Finding the ground state of a quantum many-body system is a fundamental problem in quantum physics. In this work, we give a classical machine learning (ML) algorithm for predicting ground state properties with an inductive bias encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Laura Lewis , Hsin-Yuan Huang , Viet T. Tran , Sebastian Lehner , Richard Kueng , John Preskill