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In this note, we describe how collections of arbitrary numbers of "BC-bits," distinct non-interacting quantum systems each consisting of a holographic boundary conformal field theory (BCFT), can be placed in multipartite entangled states in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-11 Mark Van Raamsdonk

Holographic tensor networks serve as toy models for the Anti-de Sitter/Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence, capturing many of its essential features in a concrete manner. However, existing holographic tensor network models…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-20 Qiang Wen , Mingshuai Xu , Haocheng Zhong

Entanglement are the non-local correlations permitted by quantum theory, believed to play a fundamental role in a quantum computer. We have investigated these correlations in a number of theoretical models for condensed matter systems. Such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stein Olav Skrøvseth

Tensor networks provide a natural framework for exploring holographic duality because they obey entanglement area laws. They have been used to construct explicit toy models realizing many interesting structural features of the AdS/CFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-07 Patrick Hayden , Sepehr Nezami , Xiao-Liang Qi , Nathaniel Thomas , Michael Walter , Zhao Yang

The construction of large-scale quantum computers will require modular architectures that allow physical resources to be localized in easy-to-manage packages. In this work, we examine the impact of different graph structures on the…

This paper systematically develops the concept of entanglement threads that characterize the entanglement structure of holographic duality. Behind this framework lies a simple philosophy: holographic quantum entanglement can be visualized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-06 Yi-Yu Lin

We present a general procedure for constructing tensor networks that accurately reproduce holographic states in conformal field theories (CFTs). Given a state in a large-$N$ CFT with a static, semiclassical gravitational dual, we build a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-05 Ning Bao , Geoffrey Penington , Jonathan Sorce , Aron C. Wall

Topological quantum field theories (TQFT) encode properties of quantum states in the topological features of abstract manifolds. One can use the topological avatars of quantum states to develop intuition about different concepts and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 Dmitry Melnikov

The aim of this dissertation is to clarify the structure of entanglement, a type of quantum correlations, in various quantum systems with a large number of degrees of freedom for holography between generic quantum systems and spacetimes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-22 Takato Mori

In the framework of the holographic principle, focusing on a central concept, conditional mutual information, we construct a class of coarse-grained states, which are intuitively connected to a family of thread configurations. These…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-25 Yi-Yu Lin , Jun Zhang

Tensor network states are used to approximate ground states of local Hamiltonians on a lattice in D spatial dimensions. Different types of tensor network states can be seen to generate different geometries. Matrix product states (MPS) in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-02 G. Evenbly , G. Vidal

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

We investigate a recent conjecture connecting the AdS/CFT correspondence and entanglement renormalization tensor network states (MERA). The proposal interprets the tensor connectivity of the MERA states associated to quantum many body…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-27 Javier Molina-Vilaplana

While highly entangled ground states of gapless local Hamiltonians have been known to exist in one dimension, their two-dimensional counterparts were only recently found, with rather sophisticated interactions involving at least four…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Zhao Zhang , Olai B. Mykland

We discuss a one-parameter family of states in two-dimensional holographic conformal field theories which are constructed via the Euclidean path integral of an effective theory on a family of hyperbolic slices in the dual bulk geometry. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-19 Pawel Caputa , Jorrit Kruthoff , Onkar Parrikar

We define a novel class of tensor networks motivated by the Python's Lunch Conjecture (PLC) in local tensor network models of the black hole interior. We start from the observation that, for extended black brane states with short-range…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-25 Gurbir Arora , Matthew Headrick , Albion Lawrence , Martin Sasieta , Brian Swingle , Connor Wolfe

Tensor networks provide succinct representations of quantum many-body states and are an important computational tool for strongly correlated quantum systems. Their expressive and computational power is characterized by an underlying…

Topological entanglement entropy, a measure of the long-ranged entanglement, is related to the degeneracy of the ground state on a higher genus surface. The exact relation depends on the details of the topological theory. We consider a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-21 Andrei Parnachev , Napat Poovuttikul

Organising the space of entanglement structures of a multipartite quantum system is a much more challenging task than its bipartite version: while the local unitary (LU) orbit of a bipartite pure state can be conveniently characterized by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Sylvain Carrozza , Johann Chevrier , Luca Lionni

We study the entanglement structure of states dual to multiboundary wormhole geometries using tensor network models. Perfect and random tensor networks tiling the hyperbolic plane have been shown to provide good models of the entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-03 Alex Peach , Simon F. Ross