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We describe a graphical calculus for completely positive maps and in doing so review the theory of open quantum systems and other fundamental primitives of quantum information theory using the language of tensor networks. In particular we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-08 Christopher J. Wood , Jacob D. Biamonte , David G. Cory

We introduce a change of perspective on tensor network states that is defined by the computational graph of the contraction of an amplitude. The resulting class of states, which we refer to as tensor network functions, inherit the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-06 Wen-Yuan Liu , Si-Jing Du , Ruojing Peng , Johnnie Gray , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Graphical tensor notation is a simple way of denoting linear operations on tensors, originating from physics. Modern deep learning consists almost entirely of operations on or between tensors, so easily understanding tensor operations is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Jordan K. Taylor

We present a general method for approximately contracting tensor networks with an arbitrary connectivity. This enables us to release the computational power of tensor networks to wide use in inference and learning problems defined on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Feng Pan , Pengfei Zhou , Sujie Li , Pan Zhang

Tensor network contraction is a fundamental mathematical operation that generalizes the dot product and matrix multiplication. It finds applications in numerous domains, such as database systems, graph theory, machine learning, probability…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mike Heddes , Igor Nunes , Tony Givargis , Alex Nicolau

Tensor network methods are a class of numerical tools and algorithms to study many-body quantum systems in and out of equilibrium, based on tailored variational wave functions. They have found significant applications in simulating lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-10 Giuseppe Magnifico , Giovanni Cataldi , Marco Rigobello , Peter Majcen , Daniel Jaschke , Pietro Silvi , Simone Montangero

We introduce the concept of concatenated tensor networks to efficiently describe quantum states. We show that the corresponding concatenated tensor network states can efficiently describe time evolution and possess arbitrary block-wise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-17 R. Hübener , V. Nebendahl , W. Dür

Tensor Networks are non-trivial representations of high-dimensional tensors, originally designed to describe quantum many-body systems. We show that Tensor Networks are ideal vehicles to connect quantum mechanical concepts to machine…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-09 Jack Y. Araz , Michael Spannowsky

The tensor network, as a facterization of tensors, aims at performing the operations that are common for normal tensors, such as addition, contraction and stacking. However, due to its non-unique network structure, only the tensor network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Tianning Zhang , Tianqi Chen , Erping Li , Bo Yang , L. K. Ang

Tensor network diagram (graphical notation) is a useful tool that graphically represents multiplications between multiple tensors using nodes and edges. Using the graphical notation, complex multiplications between tensors can be described…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Tatsuya Yokota

We propose a new statistical model suitable for machine learning of systems with long distance correlations such as natural languages. The model is based on directed acyclic graph decorated by multi-linear tensor maps in the vertices and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Vasily Pestun , Yiannis Vlassopoulos

The understanding of complex quantum many-body systems has been vastly boosted by tensor network (TN) methods. Among others, excitation spectrum and long-range interacting systems can be studied using TNs, where one however confronts the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-31 Wei-Lin Tu , Huan-Kuang Wu , Norbert Schuch , Naoki Kawashima , Ji-Yao Chen

These lecture notes provide a brief overview of methods of entanglement theory applied to the study of quantum many-body systems, as well as of tensor network states capturing quantum states naturally appearing in condensed-matter systems.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-07 J. Eisert

We present a compendium of numerical simulation techniques, based on tensor network methods, aiming to address problems of many-body quantum mechanics on a classical computer. The core setting of this anthology are lattice problems in low…

Tensor networks (TNs) and neural networks (NNs) are two fundamental data modeling approaches. TNs were introduced to solve the curse of dimensionality in large-scale tensors by converting an exponential number of dimensions to polynomial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Maolin Wang , Yu Pan , Zenglin Xu , Guangxi Li , Xiangli Yang , Danilo Mandic , Andrzej Cichocki

This paper examines the use of tensor networks, which can efficiently represent high-dimensional quantum states, in language modeling. It is a distillation and continuation of the work done in (van der Poel, 2023). To do so, we will…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Constantijn van der Poel , Dan Zhao

We have discussed the tensor-network representation of classical statistical or interacting quantum lattice models, and given a comprehensive introduction to the numerical methods we recently proposed for studying the tensor-network…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 H. H. Zhao , Z. Y. Xie , Q. N. Chen , Z. C. Wei , J. W. Cai , T. Xiang

Tensor network contraction is central to problems ranging from many-body physics to computer science. We describe how to approximate tensor network contraction through bond compression on arbitrary graphs. In particular, we introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Johnnie Gray , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Tensor Network States are ans\"atze for the efficient description of quantum many-body systems. Their success for one dimensional problems, together with the fact that they do not suffer from the sign problem and can address the simulation…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-09-21 Mari Carmen Bañuls , Krzysztof Cichy , J. Ignacio Cirac , Karl Jansen , Stefan Kühn

Machine learning is a promising application of quantum computing, but challenges remain as near-term devices will have a limited number of physical qubits and high error rates. Motivated by the usefulness of tensor networks for machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-07 William Huggins , Piyush Patel , K. Birgitta Whaley , E. Miles Stoudenmire