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Tensor networks provide extremely powerful tools for the study of complex classical and quantum many-body problems. Over the last two decades, the increment in the number of techniques and applications has been relentless, and especially…

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Extending tensor models at the field theoretical level, tensor field theories are nonlocal quantum field theories with Feynman graphs identified with simplicial complexes. They become relevant for addressing quantum topology and geometry in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-02 Joseph Ben Geloun

Classically simulating quantum circuits is crucial when developing or testing quantum algorithms. Due to the underlying exponential complexity, efficient data structures are key for performing such simulations. To this end, tensor networks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Lukas Burgholzer , Alexander Ploier , Robert Wille

Tensors are multidimensional arrays of numerical values and therefore generalize matrices to multiple dimensions. While tensors first emerged in the psychometrics community in the $20^{\text{th}}$ century, they have since then spread to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-30 Stephan Rabanser , Oleksandr Shchur , Stephan Günnemann

We introduce a class of quantum non-Markovian processes -- dubbed process trees -- that exhibit polynomially decaying temporal correlations and memory distributed across time scales. This class of processes is described by a tensor network…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Neil Dowling , Kavan Modi , Roberto N. Muñoz , Sukhbinder Singh , Gregory A. L. White

Many standard structural quantities, such as order parameters and correlation functions, exist for common condensed matter systems, such as spherical and rod-like particles. However, these structural quantities are often insufficient for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-01-18 Aaron S. Keys , Christopher R. Iacovella , Sharon C. Glotzer

A classification of 2-dimensional surfaces imbedded in spacetime is presented, according to the algebraic properties of their shape tensor. The classification has five levels, and provides among other things a refinement of the concepts of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 José M M Senovilla

Tensors, or multidimensional arrays, are data structures that can naturally represent visual data of multiple dimensions. Inherently able to efficiently capture structured, latent semantic spaces and high-order interactions, tensors have a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Yannis Panagakis , Jean Kossaifi , Grigorios G. Chrysos , James Oldfield , Mihalis A. Nicolaou , Anima Anandkumar , Stefanos Zafeiriou

The analysis of 3D symmetric second-order tensor fields often relies on topological features such as degenerate tensor lines, neutral surfaces, and their generalization to mode surfaces, which reveal important structural insights into the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Tim Gerrits

We study tensor network varieties associated with the triangular graph, with a focus on the case where one of the physical dimensions is 2. This allows us to interpret the tensors as pencils of matrices. We provide a complete…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Alessandra Bernardi , Fulvio Gesmundo

We introduce two-dimensional tensor network representations of finite groups carrying a 4-cocycle index. We characterize the associated gapped (2+1)D phases that emerge when these anomalous symmetries act on tensor network ground states. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 José Garre-Rubio , András Molnár

Tensor hierarchy algebras constitute a class of non-contragredient Lie superalgebras, whose finite-dimensional members are the "Cartan-type" Lie superalgebras in Kac's classification. They have applications in mathematical physics,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Martin Cederwall , Jakob Palmkvist

We provide a brief overview of tensor models and group field theories, focusing on their main common features. Both frameworks arose in the context of quantum gravity research, and can be understood as higher-dimensional generalizations of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Sylvain Carrozza

The resemblance between the methods used in quantum-many body physics and in machine learning has drawn considerable attention. In particular, tensor networks (TNs) and deep learning architectures bear striking similarities to the extent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-05 Ding Liu , Shi-Ju Ran , Peter Wittek , Cheng Peng , Raul Blázquez García , Gang Su , Maciej Lewenstein

Quantum resources exist in a hierarchy of multiple levels. At order zero, quantum states are transformed by linear maps (channels, or gates) in order to perform computations or simulate other states. At order one, gates and channels are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Samuel B. Steakley , Elia Zanoni , Carlo Maria Scandolo

The representation theory of tensor functions is a powerful mathematical tool for constitutive modeling of anisotropic materials. A major limitation of the traditional theory is that many point groups require fourth- or sixth-order…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Mohammad Madadi , Pu Zhang

Large amount of multidimensional data represented by multiway arrays or tensors are prevalent in modern applications across various fields such as chemometrics, genomics, physics, psychology, and signal processing. The structural complexity…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-29 Arnab Auddy , Dong Xia , Ming Yuan

Tensor models generalize the matrix-model approach to 2-dimensional quantum gravity to higher dimensions. Some models allowing a $1/N$ expansion have been explored, most of them generating branched-polymer geometries. Recently, enhancements…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-15 Luca Lionni , Johannes Thürigen

Any single system whose space of states is given by a separable Hilbert space is automatically equipped with infinitely many hidden tensor-like structures. This includes all quantum mechanical systems as well as classical field theories and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Marek Czachor

Decompositions of tensors into factor matrices, which interact through a core tensor, have found numerous applications in signal processing and machine learning. A more general tensor model which represents data as an ordered network of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Anh-Huy Phan , Andrzej Cichocki , Andre Uschmajew , Petr Tichavsky , George Luta , Danilo Mandic