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Quantum causal histories are defined to be causal sets with Hilbert spaces attached to each event and local unitary evolution operators. The reflexivity, antisymmetry, and transitivity properties of a causal set are preserved in the quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Fotini Markopoulou

Can the direction of time and the causal structure of space-time be inferred from operational principles? Causal models and tensor networks offer complementary perspectives: the former encodes cause-effect relations via directed graphs,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Carla Ferradini , Giulia Mazzola , V. Vilasini

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

In the long-standing quest to reconcile gravity with quantum mechanics, profound connections have been unveiled between concepts traditionally pertaining to quantum information theory, such as entanglement, and constitutive features of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-28 Eugenia Colafranceschi , Gerardo Adesso

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

A new approach to quantum gravity is described which joins the loop representation formulation of the canonical theory to the causal set formulation of the path integral. The theory assigns quantum amplitudes to special classes of causal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Fotini Markopoulou , Lee Smolin

The intuitiveness of the tensor network graphical language is becoming well known through its use in numerical simulations using methods from tensor network algorithms. Recent times have also seen rapid progress in developing equations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-30 Sebastian Meznaric , Jacob Biamonte

Tensor networks are often used to accurately represent ground states of quantum spin chains. Two popular choices of such tensor network representations can be seen to implement linear maps that correspond, respectively, to euclidean time…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-01 Ashley Milsted , Guifre Vidal

We provide a precise definition and analysis of quantum causal histories (QCH). A QCH consists of a discrete, locally finite, causal pre-spacetime with matrix algebras encoding the quantum structure at each event. The evolution of quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Eli Hawkins , Fotini Markopoulou , Hanno Sahlmann

We define bulk/boundary maps corresponding to quantum gravity states in the tensorial group field theory formalism, for quantum geometric models sharing the same type of quantum states of loop quantum gravity. The maps are defined in terms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-06 Eugenia Colafranceschi , Goffredo Chirco , Daniele Oriti

Quantum teleportation is a very helpful information-theoretic protocol that allows to transfer an unknown arbitrary quantum state from one location to another without having to transmit the quantum system through the intermediate region.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Marius Krumm , Philippe Allard Guérin , Thomas Zauner , Časlav Brukner

We derive a set of causal deep neural networks whose architectures are a consequence of tensor (multilinear) factor analysis, a framework that facilitates causal inference. Forward causal questions are addressed with a neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 M. Alex O. Vasilescu

Tensor network algorithms seek to minimize correlations to compress the classical data representing quantum states. Tensor network algorithms and similar tools---called tensor network methods---form the backbone of modern numerical methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-08 Andrey Kardashin , Alexey Uvarov , Jacob Biamonte

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 develop and analyze a method for simulating quantum circuits on classical computers by representing quantum states as rooted tree tensor networks. Our algorithm first determines a suitable, fixed tree structure adapted to the expected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Philipp Seitz , Ismael Medina , Esther Cruz , Qunsheng Huang , Christian B. Mendl

Tensor networks impose a notion of geometry on the entanglement of a quantum system. In some cases, this geometry is found to reproduce key properties of holographic dualities, and subsequently much work has focused on using tensor networks…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-04 Katharine Hyatt , James R. Garrison , Bela Bauer

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

Tensor networks were developed in the context of many-body physics as compressed representations of multiparticle quantum states. These representations mitigate the exponential complexity of many-body systems by capturing only the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Guillermo Valverde , Igor García-Olaizola , Giannicola Scarpa , Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens

Modern quantum optical systems such as photonic quantum computers and quantum imaging devices require great precision in their designs and implementations in the hope to realistically exploit entanglement and reach a real quantum advantage.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Nicolas Allegra

Quantum computers are expected to enable fast solving of large-scale combinatorial optimization problems. However, their limitations in fidelity and the number of qubits prevent them from handling real-world problems. Recently, a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-23 Hyakka Nakada , Kotaro Tanahashi , Shu Tanaka
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