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Although tensor networks are powerful tools for simulating low-dimensional quantum physics, tensor network algorithms are very computationally costly in higher spatial dimensions. We introduce quantum gauge networks: a different kind of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Kevin Slagle

Spin networks appear in a number of areas, for instance in lattice gauge theories and in quantum gravity. They describe the contraction of intertwiners according to the underlying network. We show that a certain generating function of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-24 Bianca Dittrich , Jeff Hnybida

After a brief review of spin networks and their interpretation as wave functions for the (space) geometry, we discuss the renormalisation of the area operator in loop quantum gravity. In such a background independent framework, we propose…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Etera R. Livine , Daniel R. Terno

This article is a short introduction to the general topic of quantum spin systems. After a brief sketch of the history of the subject, the standard mathematical framework for formulating problems and results in quantum spin systems is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bruno Nachtergaele

In the rapidly evolving field of quantum computing, tensor networks serve as an important tool due to their multifaceted utility. In this paper, we review the diverse applications of tensor networks and show that they are an important…

In this Perspective article, we explore some of the promising spin and topology material platforms (e.g. spins in semi- and superconductors, skyrmionic, topological and 2D materials) being developed for such quantum components as qubits,…

In the context of the coarse-graining of loop quantum gravity, we introduce loopy and tagged spin networks, which generalize the standard spin network states to account explicitly for non-trivial curvature and torsion. Both structures relax…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-11 Christoph Charles , Etera R. Livine

Quantum information processing protocols are efficiently implemented on spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ networks. A quantum communication protocol generally involves a certain number of parties having local access to a subset of a larger system, whose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-17 S. Lorenzo , F. Plastina , M. Consiglio , T. J. G. Apollaro

Random graphs are more and more used for modeling real world networks such as evolutionary networks of proteins. For this purpose we look at two different models and analyze how properties like connectedness and degree distributions are…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Klemens Taglieber , Uta Freiberg

Quantum networking is an emerging area with the potential to transform information processing and communications. In this paper, we present a brief introduction to quantum network control, an area in quantum networking dedicated to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Víctor Valls , Panagiotis Promponas , Leandros Tassiulas

Random networks are increasingly used to analyse complex transportation networks, such as airline routes, roads and rail networks. So far, this research has been focused on describing the properties of the networks with the help of random…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-19 Jürgen Hackl , Bryan T. Adey

In this article, we extend several algebraic graph analysis methods to bipartite networks. In various areas of science, engineering and commerce, many types of information can be represented as networks, and thus the discipline of network…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-01-16 Jérôme Kunegis

The study of toy models in loop quantum gravity (LQG), defined as truncations of the full theory, is relevant to both the development of the LQG phenomenology, in cosmology and astrophysics, and the progress towards the resolution of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 Eneko Aranguren , Iñaki Garay , Etera R. Livine

Quantum networks are of high interest nowadays and a quantum internet has been long envisioned. Network-entanglement adapts the notion of entanglement to the network scenario and network-entangled states are considered to be a resource to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 Zhen-Peng Xu , Julio I. de Vicente , Liang-Liang Sun , Sixia Yu

We introduce a mapping between graphs and pure quantum bipartite states and show that the associated entanglement entropy conveys non-trivial information about the structure of the graph. Our primary goal is to investigate the family of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-24 Silvano Garnerone , Paolo Giorda , Paolo Zanardi

We present a statistical mechanics approach for the description of complex networks. We first define an energy and an entropy associated to a degree distribution which have a geometrical interpretation. Next we evaluate the distribution…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Ginestra Bianconi

In the long-standing quest to reconcile gravity with quantum mechanics, profound connections have been unveiled between concepts traditionally pertaining to quantum information theory, such as entanglement, and constitutive features of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-28 Eugenia Colafranceschi , Gerardo Adesso

Metric graphs are often introduced based on combinatorics, upon "associating" each edge of a graph with an interval; or else, casually "gluing" a collection of intervals at their endpoints in a network-like fashion. Here we propose an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Delio Mugnolo

A network is a typical expressive form of representing complex systems in terms of vertices and links, in which the pattern of interactions amongst components of the network is intricate. The network can be static that does not change over…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Hayat Dino Bedru , Shuo Yu , Xinru Xiao , Da Zhang , Liangtian Wan , He Guo , Feng Xia

We undertake first steps in making a class of discrete models of quantum gravity, spin foams, accessible to a large scale analysis by numerical and computational methods. In particular, we apply Migdal-Kadanoff and Tensor Network…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-19 Bianca Dittrich , Frank C. Eckert , Mercedes Martin-Benito