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Quantum weight enumerators and tensor networks

Quantum Physics 2023-03-31 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We examine the use of weight enumerators for analyzing tensor network constructions, and specifically the quantum lego framework recently introduced. We extend the notion of quantum weight enumerators to so-called tensor enumerators, and prove that the trace operation on tensor networks is compatible with a trace operation on tensor enumerators. This allows us to compute quantum weight enumerators of larger codes such as the ones constructed through tensor network methods more efficiently. We also provide a general framework for quantum MacWilliams identities that includes tensor enumerators as a special case.

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@article{arxiv.2211.02756,
  title  = {Quantum weight enumerators and tensor networks},
  author = {ChunJun Cao and Brad Lackey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.02756},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

15 pages, 3 figures. Sets up the tensor enumerator formalism

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