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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…

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Classical simulation is essential in quantum algorithm development and quantum device verification. With the increasing complexity and diversity of quantum circuit structures, existing classical simulation algorithms need to be improved and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yaojian Chen , Zhaoqi Sun , Chengyu Qiu , Zegang Li , Yanfei Liu , Lin Gan , Xiaohui Duan , Guangwen Yang

We present a tensor-network-based method for simulating a weakly-measured quantum circuit. In particular, we use a Markov chain to efficiently sample measurements and contract the tensor network, propagating their effect forward along the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Darren Pereira , Leonardo Banchi

The efficient simulation of complex quantum systems remains a central challenge due to the exponential growth of Hilbert space with system size. Tensor network methods have long been established as powerful approximation schemes, and their…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Min Chen , Minzhao Liu , Changhun Oh , Liang Jiang , Yuri Alexeev , Junyu Liu

We develop a tensor network technique that can solve universal reversible classical computational problems, formulated as vertex models on a square lattice [Nat. Commun. 8, 15303 (2017)]. By encoding the truth table of each vertex…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-09 Zhi-Cheng Yang , Stefanos Kourtis , Claudio Chamon , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Andrei E. Ruckenstein

Hamiltonian simulation on quantum computers is strongly constrained by gate counts, motivating techniques to reduce circuit depths. While tensor networks are natural competitors to quantum computers, we instead leverage them to support…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Joe Gibbs , Lukasz Cincio

The evaluation of partition functions is a central problem in statistical physics. For lattice systems and other discrete models the partition function may be expressed as the contraction of a tensor network. Unfortunately computing such…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Adam S. Jermyn

In this paper, we extend the analysis of random Kronecker graphs to multi-dimensional networks represented as tensors, enabling a more detailed and nuanced understanding of complex network structures. We decompose the adjacency tensor of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Sanaa Khobizy

Accurate contraction of tensor networks beyond one dimension is essential in various fields including quantum many-body physics. Existing approaches typically rely on approximate contraction schemes and do not provide certified error bars.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-19 Seishiro Ono , Yanbai Zhang , Hoi Chun Po

We investigate a correspondence between two formalisms for discrete probabilistic modeling: probabilistic graphical models (PGMs) and tensor networks (TNs), a powerful modeling framework for simulating complex quantum systems. The graphical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-01 Jacob Miller , Geoffrey Roeder , Tai-Danae Bradley

A tensor network is a diagram that specifies a way to "multiply" a collection of tensors together to produce another tensor (or matrix). Many existing algorithms for tensor problems (such as tensor decomposition and tensor PCA), although…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Ankur Moitra , Alexander S. Wein

We present a simple and efficient way to reduce the contraction cost of a tensor network to simulate a quantum circuit. We start by interpreting the circuit as a ZX-diagram. We then use simplification and local complementation rules to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Tristan Cam , Simon Martiel

The Tucker tensor decomposition is a natural extension of the singular value decomposition (SVD) to multiway data. We propose to accelerate Tucker tensor decomposition algorithms by using randomization and parallelization. We present two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Rachel Minster , Zitong Li , Grey Ballard

TensorNetwork is an open source library for implementing tensor network algorithms in TensorFlow. We describe a tree tensor network (TTN) algorithm for approximating the ground state of either a periodic quantum spin chain (1D) or a lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-07 Ashley Milsted , Martin Ganahl , Stefan Leichenauer , Jack Hidary , Guifre Vidal

Random tensor networks are a powerful toy model for understanding the entanglement structure of holographic quantum gravity. However, unlike holographic quantum gravity, their entanglement spectra are flat. It has therefore been argued that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Newton Cheng , Cécilia Lancien , Geoff Penington , Michael Walter , Freek Witteveen

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

Quantum circuits are considered more powerful than classical circuits and require exponential resources to simulate classically. Clifford circuits are a special class of quantum circuits that can be simulated in polynomial time but still…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Yuchen Pang , Edgar Solomonik

This paper is a manual with tips and tricks for programming tensor network algorithms with global $SU(2)$ symmetry. We focus on practical details that are many times overlooked when it comes to implementing the basic building blocks of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-02 Philipp Schmoll , Sukhbinder Singh , Matteo Rizzi , Roman Orus

The interplay of quantum and classical simulation and the delicate divide between them is in the focus of massively parallelized tensor network state (TNS) algorithms designed for high performance computing (HPC). In this contribution, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Andor Menczer , Örs Legeza

In the rapidly evolving field of quantum computing, tensor networks serve as an important tool due to their multifaceted utility. In this paper, we review the diverse applications of tensor networks and show that they are an important…