A monomial matrix formalism to describe quantum many-body states

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/13/12/123004MaRDI QIDQ5135231zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maarten Van den Nest

Publication date 19 November 2020

Published in New Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.0531

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exactly and quasi-solvable systems arising in quantum theory (81U15) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz (82B23)

Abstract: We propose a framework to describe and simulate a class of many-body quantum states. We do so by considering joint eigenspaces of sets of monomial unitary matrices, called here "M-spaces"; a unitary matrix is monomial if precisely one entry per row and column is nonzero. We show that M-spaces encompass various important state families, such as all Pauli stabilizer states and codes, the AKLT model, Kitaev's (abelian and non-abelian) anyon models, group coset states, W states and the locally maximally entanglable states. We furthermore show how basic properties of M-spaces can transparently be understood by manipulating their monomial stabilizer groups. In particular we derive a unified procedure to construct an eigenbasis of any M-space, yielding an explicit formula for each of the eigenstates. We also discuss the computational complexity of M-spaces and show that basic problems, such as estimating local expectation values, are NP-hard. Finally we prove that a large subclass of M-spaces---containing in particular most of the aforementioned examples---can be simulated efficiently classically with a unified method.

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