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Matrix product states (MPS) are a standard tensor-network representation for ground states of one-dimensional quantum many-body systems, and they underpin widely used simulation tools such as DMRG. However, while quantum model checking has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Ming Xu , Yihao Chen , Ji Guan

We introduce a method based on matrix product states (MPS) for computing spectral functions of (quasi) one-dimensional spin chains, working directly in momentum space in the thermodynamic limit. We simulate the time evolution after applying…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-08 Maarten Van Damme , Laurens Vanderstraeten

Common wisdom says that the entanglement of fermionic systems can be low in the second quantization formalism but is extremely large in the first quantization. Hence Matrix Product State (MPS) methods based on moderate entanglement have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Jheng-Wei Li , Xavier Waintal

We show that the model wave functions used to describe the fractional quantum Hall effect have exact representations as matrix product states (MPS). These MPS can be implemented numerically in the orbital basis of both finite and infinite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-20 Michael P. Zaletel , Roger S. K. Mong

We obtain an exact matrix-product-state (MPS) representation of a large series of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states in various geometries of genus 0. The states in question include all paired k=2 Jack polynomials, such as the Moore-Read…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-03 B. Estienne , Z. Papic , N. Regnault , B. A. Bernevig

The truncation or compression of the spectrum of Schmidt values is inherent to the matrix product state (MPS) approximation of one-dimensional quantum ground states. We provide a renormalization group picture by interpreting this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Matthias Bal , Marek M. Rams , Valentin Zauner , Jutho Haegeman , Frank Verstraete

Sampling problems have emerged as a central avenue for demonstrating quantum advantage on noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. However, physical noise can fundamentally alter their computational complexity, often making them…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Sojeong Park , Changhun Oh

Ultra-short pulses propagating in nonlinear nanophotonic waveguides can simultaneously leverage both temporal and spatial field confinement, promising a route towards single-photon nonlinearities in an all-photonic platform. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Ryotatsu Yanagimoto , Edwin Ng , Logan G. Wright , Tatsuhiro Onodera , Hideo Mabuchi

Canonical forms are central to the analytical understanding of tensor network states, underpinning key results such as the complete classification of one-dimensional symmetry-protected topological phases within the matrix product state…

We give a generalization to an infinite tree geometry of Vidal's infinite time-evolving block decimation (iTEBD) algorithm for simulating an infinite line of quantum spins. We numerically investigate the quantum Ising model in a transverse…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel Nagaj , Edward Farhi , Jeffrey Goldstone , Peter Shor , Igor Sylvester

We solve the nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) using matrix product states (MPS). This allows us to treat much larger bath sizes and by that reach substantially longer times (factor $\sim$ 2 -- 3) than with exact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-22 F. Alexander Wolf , Ian P. McCulloch , Ulrich Schollwöck

A matrix product state formulation of the multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree (MPS-MCTDH) theory is presented. The Hilbert space that is spanned by the direct products of the phonon degree of freedoms, which is linearly parameterized…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Yuki Kurashige

In this work, we prove that any element in the tensor product of separable infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces can be expressed as a matrix product state (MPS) of possibly infinite bond dimension. The proof is based on the singular value…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Niilo Heikkinen

The term Tensor Network States (TNS) refers to a number of families of states that represent different ans\"atze for the efficient description of the state of a quantum many-body system. Matrix Product States (MPS) are one particular case…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-02-04 Mari Carmen Bañuls , Krzysztof Cichy , J. Ignacio Cirac , Karl Jansen , Hana Saito

Recently it was shown that continuous Matrix Product States (cMPS) cannot express the continuum limit state of any Matrix Product State (MPS), according to a certain natural definition of the latter. The missing element is a projector in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-29 Maria Balanzó-Juandó , Gemma De las Cuevas

Numerical simulations are a powerful tool to study quantum systems beyond exactly solvable systems lacking an analytic expression. For one-dimensional entangled quantum systems, tensor network methods, amongst them Matrix Product States…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-02-28 Daniel Jaschke , Michael L. Wall , Lincoln D. Carr

We introduce the concept of quantum field tomography, the efficient and reliable reconstruction of unknown quantum fields based on data of correlation functions. At the basis of the analysis is the concept of continuous matrix product…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Steffens , C. A. Riofrío , R. Hübener , J. Eisert

We investigate the use of matrix product states (MPS) to approximate ground states of critical quantum spin chains with periodic boundary conditions (PBC). We identify two regimes in the (N,D) parameter plane, where N is the size of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-08 B. Pirvu , G. Vidal , F. Verstraete , L. Tagliacozzo

Strongly coupled quantum field theories in $(1+1)$ dimensions are notoriously hard to solve non-perturbatively. Variational methods, despite their success for quantum many-body physics on the lattice, have long lacked a natural ansatz…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 Antoine Tilloy

Quantum state tomography (QST) is the gold standard technique for obtaining an estimate for the state of small quantum systems in the laboratory. Its application to systems with more than a few constituents (e.g. particles) soon becomes…