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This paper is a `spiritual child' of the 2005 lecture notes Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics, which showed how a simple, pictorial extension of Dirac notation allowed several quantum features to be easily expressed and derived, using language…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 Bob Coecke , Dominic Horsman , Aleks Kissinger , Quanlong Wang

The field of quantum machine learning (QML) explores how quantum computers can be used to more efficiently solve machine learning problems. As an application of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms, it promises a potential quantum advantages…

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Spin networks, essentially labeled graphs, are ``good quantum numbers'' for the quantum theory of geometry. These structures encompass a diverse range of techniques which may be used in the quantum mechanics of finite dimensional systems,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Seth A. Major

The spin geometry theorem of Penrose is extended from $SU(2)$ to $E(3)$ (Euclidean) invariant elementary quantum mechanical systems. Using the natural decomposition of the total angular momentum into its spin and orbital parts, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-08 László B. Szabados

Using complexified quaternions, a formalism without Lorentz frames, and therefore also without vierbeins, for dealing with tensor and spinor fields in curved spacetime is presented. A local U(1) gauge symmetry, which, it is speculated,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 John Fredsted

Initially, we derive a nonlinear integral equation for the vacuum counting function of the spin 1/2-XYZ chain in the {\it disordered regime}, thus paralleling similar results by Kl\"umper \cite{KLU}, achieved through a different technique…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Davide Fioravanti , Marco Rossi

Recently, we gave a complete axiomatisation of the ZX-calculus for the overall pure qubit quantum mechanics. Based on this result, here we also obtain a complete axiomatisation of the ZX-calculus for the Clifford+T quantum mechanics by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 Kang Feng Ng , Quanlong Wang

Establishing a universal diagnostic of topological order remains an open theoretical challenge. In particular, diagnosing long-range entanglement through the entropic area law suffers from spurious contributions, failing to unambiguously…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-17 Sergi Mas-Mendoza , Richard D. P. East , Michele Filippone , Adolfo G. Grushin

We introduce a new basis for the gauge-invariant Hilbert space of lattice gauge theory and loop quantum gravity in $(2+1)$ dimensions, the fusion basis. In doing so, we shift the focus from the original lattice (or spin-network) structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-18 Clement Delcamp , Bianca Dittrich , Aldo Riello

This work introduces SpinGlassPEPS$.$jl, a software package implemented in Julia, designed to find low-energy configurations of generalized Potts models, including Ising and QUBO problems, utilizing heuristic tensor network contraction…

An alternative framework underlying connection between tensor ${\rm sl}_2$-calculus and spin networks is suggested. New sign convention for the inner product in the dual spinor space leads to a simpler and direct set of initial rules for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-07-20 Jerzy Kocik

An algorithm is given for explicitly computing Penrose diagrams for spacetimes of the form $ds^2 = -f(r)\, dt^2 + f(r)^{-1} \, dr^2 + r^2 \, d\Omega^2$. The resulting diagram coordinates are shown to extend the metric continuously and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-16 J C Schindler , A Aguirre

Selected problems of fundamental importance for spintronics and spin-polarized transport are reviewed, some of them with a special emphasis on their applications in quantum computing and coherent control of quantum dynamics. The role of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Das Sarma , Jaroslav Fabian , Xuedong Hu , Igor Zutic

Tensor network theory and quantum simulation are respectively the key classical and quantum computing methods in understanding quantum many-body physics. Here, we introduce the framework of hybrid tensor networks with building blocks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-02 Xiao Yuan , Jinzhao Sun , Junyu Liu , Qi Zhao , You Zhou

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have been increasingly employed due to their capability of modeling complex physics systems. To achieve better expressiveness, increasingly larger network sizes are required in many problems. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Ziyue Liu , Xinling Yu , Zheng Zhang

Embedding diagrams have been used extensively to visualize the properties of curved space in Relativity. We introduce a new kind of embedding diagram based on the {\it extrinsic} curvature (instead of the intrinsic curvature). Such an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 J. L. Lu , W. -M. Suen

We provide a graphical treatment of SAT and #SAT on equal footing. Instances of #SAT can be represented as tensor networks in a standard way. These tensor networks are interpreted by diagrams of the ZH-calculus: a system to reason about…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Niel de Beaudrap , Aleks Kissinger , Konstantinos Meichanetzidis

We describe a graphical calculus for completely positive maps and in doing so review the theory of open quantum systems and other fundamental primitives of quantum information theory using the language of tensor networks. In particular we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-08 Christopher J. Wood , Jacob D. Biamonte , David G. Cory

The creation, coherent manipulation, and measurement of spins in nanostructures open up completely new possibilities for electronics and information processing, among them quantum computing and quantum communication. We review our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Recher , D. Loss , J. Levy

Consider an asymptotically Euclidean initial data set with a smooth marginally trapped surface (possibly a union of future and past multi-connected components) as inner boundary. By a further development of the spinorial framework…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-02 Yun-Kau Lau