Preparation of matrix product states with log-depth quantum circuits

D Malz, G Styliaris, ZY Wei, JI Cirac - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We consider the preparation of matrix product states (MPS) on quantum devices via
quantum circuits of local gates. We first prove that faithfully preparing translation-invariant …

Resource theory of quantum scrambling

RJ Garcia, K Bu, A Jaffe - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Quantum chaos has become a cornerstone of physics through its many applications. One
trademark of quantum chaotic systems is the spread of local quantum information, which …

Presence and absence of barren plateaus in tensor-network based machine learning

Z Liu, LW Yu, LM Duan, DL Deng - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Tensor networks are efficient representations of high-dimensional tensors with widespread
applications in quantum many-body physics. Recently, they have been adapted to the field …

Generic increase of observational entropy in isolated systems

T Nagasawa, K Kato, E Wakakuwa, F Buscemi - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
Observational entropy—a quantity that unifies Boltzmann's entropy, Gibbs' entropy, von
Neumann's macroscopic entropy, and the diagonal entropy—was recently argued to play a …

Anticoncentration and state design of random tensor networks

G Lami, J De Nardis, X Turkeshi - Physical Review Letters, 2025 - APS
We investigate quantum random tensor network states in which the dimension of the bond
scales polynomially with the size of the system N. Specifically, we examine the …

Constant-depth preparation of matrix product states with adaptive quantum circuits

KC Smith, A Khan, BK Clark, SM Girvin… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Adaptive quantum circuits, which combine local unitary gates, midcircuit measurements, and
feedforward operations, have recently emerged as a promising avenue for efficient state …

Typical correlation length of sequentially generated tensor network states

D Haag, F Baccari, G Styliaris - PRX Quantum, 2023 - APS
The complexity of quantum many-body systems is manifested in the vast diversity of their
correlations, making it challenging to distinguish the generic from the atypical features. This …

Isometric tensor network optimization for extensive Hamiltonians is free of barren plateaus

Q Miao, T Barthel - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
We explain why and numerically confirm that there are no barren plateaus in the energy
optimization of isometric tensor network states (TNS) for extensive Hamiltonians with finite …

Barren plateaus from learning scramblers with local cost functions

RJ Garcia, C Zhao, K Bu, A Jaffe - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract The existence of barren plateaus has recently revealed new training challenges in
quantum machine learning (QML). Uncovering the mechanisms behind barren plateaus is …

Absence of barren plateaus and scaling of gradients in the energy optimization of isometric tensor network states

T Barthel, Q Miao - arxiv preprint arxiv:2304.00161, 2023 - arxiv.org
Vanishing gradients can pose substantial obstacles for high-dimensional optimization
problems. Here we consider energy minimization problems for quantum many-body systems …