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Quantum phases at zero temperature can be characterized as equivalence classes under local unitary transformations: two ground states within a gapped phase can be transformed into each other via a local unitary circuit. We generalize this…

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Constructing quantum Hamiltonians for simulating and controlling the exotic physics of many-body systems belongs to the most important topics of condensed matter physics and quantum technologies. The main challenge that hinders the future…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-15 Ding-Zu Wang , Guo-Feng Zhang , Maciej Lewenstein , Shi-Ju Ran

We introduce a class of states, called minimally entangled typical thermal states (METTS), designed to resemble a typical state of a quantum system at finite temperature with a bias towards classical (minimally entangled) properties. These…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Steven R. White

We consider the many-body quantum Gibbs state for the Bose-Hubbard model on a finite graph at positive temperature. We scale the interaction with the inverse temperature, corresponding to a mean-field limit where the temperature is of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-08 Zied Ammari , Shahnaz Farhat , Sören Petrat

Tensor networks are used to efficiently approximate states of strongly-correlated quantum many-body systems. More generally, tensor network approximations may allow to reduce the costs for operating on an order-$N$ tensor from exponential…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-31 Hao Chen , Thomas Barthel

We present a numerical strategy to efficiently estimate bipartite entanglement measures, and in particular the Entanglement of Formation, for many-body quantum systems on a lattice. Our approach exploits the Tree Tensor Operator tensor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Luca Arceci , Pietro Silvi , Simone Montangero

Preparing ground states and thermal states is essential for simulating quantum systems on quantum computers. Despite the hope for practical quantum advantage in quantum simulation, popular state preparation approaches have been challenged.…

A variety of generative neural networks recently adopted from machine learning have provided promising strategies for studying quantum matter. In particular, the success of autoregressive models in natural language processing has motivated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Tarun Advaith Kumar , Leon Balents , Timothy H. Hsieh , Roger G. Melko

The recent interest in aspects common to quantum information and condensed matter has prompted a prosperous activity at the border of these disciplines that were far distant until few years ago. Numerous interesting questions have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Luigi Amico , Rosario Fazio , Andreas Osterloh , Vlatko Vedral

It is by now well-known that ground states of gapped one-dimensional (1d) quantum-many body systems with short-range interactions can be studied efficiently using classical computers and matrix product state techniques. A corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-31 Thomas Barthel

What entanglement is present in naturally occurring physical systems at thermal equilibrium? Most such systems are intractable and it is desirable to study simple but realistic systems which can be solved. An example of such a system is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tobias J. Osborne , Michael A. Nielsen

Many simulation tasks require that one first prepare a system's Gibbs state. We present a family of quantum circuits for variational preparation of thermal Gibbs states on a quantum computer; we call them the thermal multi-scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 Troy J. Sewell , Christopher David White , Brian Swingle

We construct upper bounds on entanglement entropies of many-body quantum states that have fixed energy expectation values with respect to geometrically local Hamiltonians. Our focus is on entanglement entropies of subsystems that make up…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-16 Samuel J. Garratt , Dmitry A. Abanin

This work explores the use of a tree tensor network ansatz to simulate the ground state of a local Hamiltonian on a two-dimensional lattice. By exploiting the entropic area law, the tree tensor network ansatz seems to produce quasi-exact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-12-21 L. Tagliacozzo , G. Evenbly , G. Vidal

Tensor network states are an indispensable tool for the simulation of strongly correlated quantum many-body systems. In recent years, tree tensor network states (TTNS) have been successfully used for two-dimensional systems and to benchmark…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Thomas Barthel

Determination and characterization of criticality in two-dimensional (2D) quantum many-body systems belong to the most important challenges and problems of quantum physics. In this paper we propose an efficient scheme to solve this problem…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-19 Shi-Ju Ran , Cheng Peng , Wei Li , Maciej Lewenstein , Gang Su

We investigate quantum many-body systems where all low-energy states are entangled. As a tool for quantifying such systems, we introduce the concept of the entanglement gap, which is the difference in energy between the ground-state energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark R. Dowling , Andrew C. Doherty , Stephen D. Bartlett

We propose a generalized Lanczos method to generate the many-body basis states of quantum lattice models using tensor-network states (TNS). The ground-state wave function is represented as a linear superposition composed from a set of TNS…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-19 Rui-Zhen Huang , Hai-Jun Liao , Zhi-Yuan Liu , Hai-Dong Xie , Zhi-Yuan Xie , Hui-Hai Zhao , Jing Chen , Tao Xiang

In this work we propose to simulate many-body thermodynamics of infinite-size quantum lattice models in one, two, and three dimensions, in terms of few-body models of only O(10) sites, which we coin as quantum entanglement simulators…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-23 Shi-Ju Ran , Bin Xi , Cheng Peng , Gang Su , Maciej Lewenstein

We present a new computational framework combining coarse-graining techniques with bootstrap methods to study quantum many-body systems. The method efficiently computes rigorous upper and lower bounds on both zero- and finite-temperature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-25 Minjae Cho , Colin Oscar Nancarrow , Petar Tadić , Yuan Xin , Zechuan Zheng