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Classical simulation of quantum many-body systems with a tree tensor network

Yaoyun Shi, Luming Duan, Guifre Vidal

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0511070

Abstract

We show how to efficiently simulate a quantum many-body system with tree structure when its entanglement is bounded for any bipartite split along an edge of the tree. This is achieved by expanding the time-evolving block decimation simulation algorithm for time evolution from a one dimensional lattice to a tree graph, while replacing a matrix product state with a tree tensor network. As an application, we show that any one-way quantum computation on a tree graph can be efficiently simulated with a classical computer.

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