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We propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for approximating the ground state of two-dimensional quantum systems using an isometric tensor network ansatz, which maps naturally to quantum circuits. Inspired by the density matrix…

Projected entangled pair states (PEPS) on finite two-dimensional lattices are a natural ansatz for representing ground states of local many-body Hamiltonians, as they inherently satisfy the boundary law of entanglement entropy. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-14 Daniel Alcalde Puente , Erik Lennart Weerda , Konrad Schröder , Matteo Rizzi

We propose a simple connection between matrix quantum mechanics and tensor networks. This allows us to imbue tensor networks with some interesting additional structure. The geometry of the graph describing the tensor network state is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-25 Alexander Frenkel

Invariant theory is concerned with functions that do not change under the action of a given group. Here we communicate an approach based on tensor networks to represent polynomial local unitary invariants of quantum states. This graphical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 Jacob Biamonte , Ville Bergholm , Marco Lanzagorta

Many topologically nontrivial states of matter possess gapless degrees of freedom on the boundary, and when these boundary states delocalize into the bulk, a phase transition occurs and the system becomes topologically trivial. We show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-02 Timothy H. Hsieh , Liang Fu , Xiao-Liang Qi

Tensor networks (TNs) are one of the best available tools to study many-body quantum systems. TNs are particularly suitable for one-dimensional local Hamiltonians, while their performance for generic geometries is mainly limited by two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Apimuk Sornsaeng , Itai Arad , Dario Poletti

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

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

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

We characterize the variational power of quantum circuit tensor networks in the representation of physical many-body ground-states. Such tensor networks are formed by replacing the dense block unitaries and isometries in standard tensor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-01 Reza Haghshenas , Johnnie Gray , Andrew C. Potter , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

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

Tensor networks, originally designed to address computational problems in quantum many-body physics, have recently been applied to machine learning tasks. However, compared to quantum physics, where the reasons for the success of tensor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-14 John Martyn , Guifre Vidal , Chase Roberts , Stefan Leichenauer

Two dimensional tensor networks such as projected entangled pairs states (PEPS) are generally hard to contract. This is arguably the main reason why variational tensor network methods in 2D are still not as successful as in 1D. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Anurag Anshu , Itai Arad , Aditya Jain

We examine the use of string diagrams and the mathematics of category theory in the description of quantum states by tensor networks. This approach lead to a unification of several ideas, as well as several results and methods that have not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Jacob D. Biamonte , Stephen R. Clark , Dieter Jaksch

In tensor-network analysis of quantum many-body systems, it is of crucial importance to employ a tensor network with a spatial structure suitable for representing the state of interest. In the previous work [Hikihara et al., Phys. Rev.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-19 Toshiya Hikihara , Hiroshi Ueda , Kouichi Okunishi , Kenji Harada , Tomotoshi Nishino

Tensor network states provide an efficient class of states that faithfully capture strongly correlated quantum models and systems in classical statistical mechanics. While tensor networks can now be seen as becoming standard tools in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 A. Nietner , B. Vanhecke , F. Verstraete , J. Eisert , L. Vanderstraeten

Hybrid tensor networks offer a promising route to enhance the expressivity of classical tensor network methods by incorporating quantum states prepared on a quantum computer. Existing approaches are limited by the variational optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Julian Schuhmacher , Alberto Baiardi , Francesco Tacchino , Ivano Tavernelli

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

The projected entangled pair state (PEPS) ansatz can represent a thermal state in a strongly correlated system. We introduce a novel variational algorithm to optimize this tensor network. Since full tensor environment is taken into account,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-31 Piotr Czarnik , Jacek Dziarmaga

We adapt the bialgebra and Hopf relations to expose internal structure in the ground state of a Hamiltonian with $Z_2$ topological order. Its tensor network description allows for exact contraction through simple diagrammatic rewrite rules.…

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