Undecidability in Tensor Network States
Quantum Physics
2013-11-05 v1
Abstract
Recent work has examined how undecidable problems can arise in quantum information science. We augment this by introducing three new undecidable problems stated in terms of tensor networks. These relate to ideas of Penrose about the physicality of a spin-network representing a physical process, closed timelike curves, and Boolean relation theory. Seemingly slight modifications of the constraints on the topology or the tensor families generating the networks leads to problems that transition from decidable, to undecidable to even always satisfiable.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1205.3315,
title = {Undecidability in Tensor Network States},
author = {Jason Morton and Jacob Biamonte},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.3315},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures, RevTeX4-1