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Efficient classical simulation of slightly entangled quantum computations

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We present a scheme to efficiently simulate, with a classical computer, the dynamics of multipartite quantum systems on which the amount of entanglement (or of correlations in the case of mixed-state dynamics) is conveniently restricted. The evolution of a pure state of n qubits can be simulated by using computational resources that grow linearly in n and exponentially in the entanglement. We show that a pure-state quantum computation can only yield an exponential speed-up with respect to classical computations if the entanglement increases with the size n of the computation, and gives a lower bound on the required growth.

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Mapping twist fields to local operators via tensor networks

quant-ph · 2026-05-25 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Constructs explicit physical local operators whose expectation values match twist field actions in MPS, exact in the injectivity limit and at the center of orthogonality, with numerical tests in the transverse-field Ising model.

Bowtie VarQTE: A Resource-Efficient Quantum State Preparation Primitive

quant-ph · 2026-05-19 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Bowtie VarQTE is a hybrid classical-quantum variational time evolution method that exploits causal light-cones to reduce quantum resource use for state preparation while achieving fidelities comparable to approximate quantum compilation.

Universal Non-stabilizerness Dynamics Across Quantum Phase Transitions

quant-ph · 2026-03-09 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Stabilizer Rényi entropies and Pauli spectrum cumulants show universal power-law scaling with driving rate in slow processes across quantum phase transitions, with the logarithmic Pauli spectrum asymptotically Gaussian, demonstrated in the transverse-field Ising model and long-range Kitaev models.

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