Fermionic quantum cellular automata and generalized matrix product unitaries
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DOI10.1088/1742-5468/ABD30FarXiv2007.11905MaRDI QIDQ6345689FDOQ6345689
Authors: Lorenzo Piroli, Alex Turzillo, Sujeet K. Shukla, J. Ignacio Cirac 
Publication date: 23 July 2020
Abstract: We study matrix product unitary operators (MPUs) for fermionic one-dimensional (1D) chains. In stark contrast with the case of 1D qudit systems, we show that (i) fermionic MPUs do not necessarily feature a strict causal cone and (ii) not all fermionic Quantum Cellular Automata (QCA) can be represented as fermionic MPUs. We then introduce a natural generalization of the latter, obtained by allowing for an additional operator acting on their auxiliary space. We characterize a family of such generalized MPUs that are locality-preserving, and show that, up to appending inert ancillary fermionic degrees of freedom, any representative of this family is a fermionic QCA and viceversa. Finally, we prove an index theorem for generalized MPUs, recovering the recently derived classification of fermionic QCA in one dimension. As a technical tool for our analysis, we also introduce a graded canonical form for fermionic matrix product states, proving its uniqueness up to similarity transformations.
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