Applications of tensor networks in graphical models and quantum circuit simulations

报告人
张潘 研究员
单位
中国科学院理论物理研究所
时间
2019-11-15 (周五) 10:00
地点
上海研究院4号楼329报告厅(理化大楼一楼科技展厅同步视频)
摘要

Tensor networks are powerful tools in quantum many-body problems,which are usually defined on lattices where efficient contraction algorithms exist. However, when applied to problems out of physics such as graphical models, the underlying network connections could be far from lattices.
In this talk I will introduce an approach for approximately contracting tensor networks with arbitrary connections, such as on lattices, random graphs, and complete graphs. We show applications of our algorithm in estimating free energy of finite-size spin glasses defined on various of topologies, where our algorithm outperforms existing algorithms including mean-field, MCMC based, and recently proposed neural network based methods. We further apply our algorithm to simulations of random quantum circuits with a low depth, where it displays significant speed up and memory efficiency over exact simulations while produces only negligible SVD cut-off error.