DMRG Preprints

A small reader for Tomotoshi Nishino's selection of papers on tensor networks

Simulating superconductivity in mixed-dimensional tt_\parallel-J{J}_\parallel-J{J}_\perp bilayers with neural quantum states

Hannah Lange, Ao Chen, Antoine Georges, Fabian Grusdt, Annabelle Bohrdt, Christopher Roth

2602.10049 | Tue Feb 10 2026 | cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.dis-nn cond-mat.quant-gas | PDF

Motivated by the recent discovery of superconductivity in the bilayer nickelate La3_3Ni2_2O7_7 (LNO) under pressure, we study a mixed-dimensional (mixD) bilayer tt_\parallel-JJ_\parallel-JJ_\perp model, which has been proposed as an effective low-energy description of LNO. Using neural quantum states (NQS), and in particular Gutzwiller-projected Hidden Fermion Pfaffian State, we access the ground-state properties on large lattices up to 8×8×28\times 8\times 2 sites. We show that this model exhibits superconductivity across a wide range of dopings and couplings, and analyze the pairing behavior in detail. We identify a crossover from tightly bound, Bose-Einstein-condensed interlayer pairs at strong interlayer exchange to more spatially extended Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer-like pairs as the interlayer exchange is decreased. Furthermore, upon tuning the intralayer exchange, we observe a sharp transition from interlayer ss-wave pairing to intralayer dd-wave pairing, consistent with a first-order change in the pairing symmetry. We verify that our simulations are accurate by comparing with matrix product state simulations on coupled ladders. Our results represent the first simulation of a fermionic multi-orbital system with NQS, and provide the first evidence for superconductivity in two-dimensonal bilayers using high-precision numerics. These findings provide insight into superconductivity in bilayer nickelates and cold atom quantum simulation platforms.

Preventing Barren Plateaus in Continuous Quantum Generative Models

Olli Hirviniemi, Afrad Basheer, Thomas Cope

2602.09098 | Tue Feb 10 2026 | quant-ph | PDF

Recent developments in the field of variational quantum circuits (VQCs) have shifted the prerequisites for trainability for many barren plateau-free models onto the data encoding state fed into a classically trainable unitary. By strengthening proofs relating to small-angle initialisation, we provide a full circuit model which does not suffer from barren plateaus and is robust against current classical simulation techniques, specifically tensor network contraction and Pauli propagation. We propose this as a quantum generative model amenable towards NISQ devices and quantum-classical hybrid models, raising new questions in the debate regarding usefulness of VQCs.

Tunable many-body burst in isolated quantum systems

Shozo Yamada, Akihiro Hokkyo, Masahito Ueda

2602.10091 | Tue Feb 10 2026 | quant-ph cond-mat.stat-mech | PDF

Thermalization in isolated quantum many-body systems can be nonmonotonic, with its process dependent on an initial state. We propose a numerical method to construct a low-entangled initial state that creates a ``burst''\unicodex2013\unicodex2013\unicode{x2013}\unicode{x2013}a transient deviation of an observable from its thermal equilibrium value\unicodex2013\unicodex2013\unicode{x2013}\unicode{x2013}at a designated time. We apply this method to demonstrate that a burst of magnetization can be realized for a nonintegrable mixed-field Ising chain on a timescale comparable to the onset of quantum scrambling. Contrary to the typical spreading of information in this regime, the created burst is accompanied by a slow or even negative entanglement growth. Analytically, we show that a burst becomes probabilistically rare after a long time. Our results suggest that a nonequilibrium state is maintained for an appropriately chosen initial state until scrambling becomes dominant. These predictions can be tested with programmable quantum simulators.

Anomalous spin transport in integrable random quantum circuits

Songlei Wang, Chenguang Liang, Hongzheng Zhao, Zhi-Cheng Yang

2602.09665 | Mon Feb 09 2026 | cond-mat.stat-mech quant-ph | PDF

High-temperature spin transport in integrable quantum spin chains exhibits a rich dynamical phase diagram, including ballistic, superdiffusive, and diffusive regimes. While integrability is known to survive in static and periodically driven systems, its fate in the complete absence of time-translation symmetry, particularly in interacting random quantum circuits, has remained unclear. Here we construct integrable random quantum circuits built from inhomogeneous XXZ R-matrices. Remarkably, integrability is preserved for arbitrary sequences of gate layers, ranging from quasiperiodic to fully random, thereby explicitly breaking both continuous and discrete time-translation symmetry. Using large-scale time-dependent density-matrix renormalization group simulations at infinite temperature and half filling, we map out the resulting spin-transport phase diagram and identify ballistic, superdiffusive, and diffusive regimes controlled by the spectral parameters of the R-matrices. The spatiotemporal structure of spin correlations within each regime depends sensitively on the inhomogeneity, exhibiting spatial asymmetry and sharp peak structures tied to near-degenerate quasiparticle velocities. To account for these findings, we develop a generalized hydrodynamics framework adapted to time-dependent integrable circuits, yielding Euler-scale predictions for correlation functions, Drude weights, and diffusion bounds. This approach identifies the quasiparticles governing transport and quantitatively captures both the scaling exponents and fine structures of the correlation profiles observed numerically. Our results demonstrate that exact Yang-Baxter integrability is compatible with stochastic quantum dynamics and establish generalized hydrodynamics as a predictive framework for transport in time-dependent integrable systems.

Average Categorical Symmetries in One-Dimensional Disordered Systems

Yabo Li, Meng Cheng, Ruochen Ma

2602.09083 | Mon Feb 09 2026 | cond-mat.dis-nn cond-mat.stat-mech cond-mat.str-el | PDF

We study one-dimensional disordered systems with average non-invertible symmetries, where quenched disorder may locally break part of the symmetry while preserving it upon disorder averaging. A canonical example is the random transverse-field Ising model, which at criticality exhibits an average Kramers-Wannier duality. We consider the general setting in which the full symmetry is described by a GG-graded fusion category B\mathcal{B}, whose identity component A\mathcal{A} remains exact, while the components with nontrivial GG-grading are realized either exactly or only on average. We develop a topological holographic framework that encodes the symmetry data of the 1D system in a 2D topological order Z[A]\mathcal{Z}[\mathcal{A}] (the Drinfeld center of A\mathcal{A}), enriched by an exact or, respectively, average GG symmetry. Within this framework, we obtain a complete classification of anomalies and average symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases: when the components with nontrivial GG-grading are realized only on average, the symmetry is anomaly-free if and only if Z[A]\mathcal{Z}[\mathcal{A}] admits a magnetic Lagrangian algebra that is invariant under the permutation action of GG on anyons. When an anomaly is present, we show that the ground state of a single disorder realization is long-range entangled with probability one in the thermodynamic limit, and is expected to exhibit power-law Griffiths singularities in the low-energy spectrum. Finally, we present an explicit, exactly solvable lattice model based on a symmetry-enriched string-net construction. It yields trivial ground state ensemble in the anomaly-free case, and exhibits exotic low-energy behavior in the presence of an average anomaly.

Forward-mode automatic differentiation for the tensor renormalization group and its relation to the impurity method

Yuto Sugimoto

2602.07653 | Mon Feb 09 2026 | hep-lat | PDF

We propose a forward-mode automatic differentiation (AD) framework for tensor renormalization group (TRG) methods. In this approach, evaluating the derivatives of the partition function up to order kk increases the matrix-multiplication cost by a factor of (k+1)(k+2)/2(k+1)(k+2)/2 compared to computing the free energy alone, while the memory footprint is only kk times that of the original calculation. In the limit where the derivatives of the SVD are neglected, we establish a theoretical correspondence between our forward-mode AD and conventional impurity methods. Numerically, we find that the proposed AD algorithm can calculate internal energy and specific heat significantly higher accuracy than the impurity method at comparable computational cost. We also provide a practical procedure to extract critical exponents from derivatives of the renormalized tensor in TRG calculations in both two and three dimensions.

A quantum-inspired multi-level tensor-train monolithic space-time method for nonlinear PDEs

N. R. Rapaka, R. Peddinti, E. Tiunov, N. J. Faraj, A. N. Alkhooori, L. Aolita, Y. Addad, M. K. Riahi

2602.07945 | Sun Feb 08 2026 | math.NA cs.PF physics.comp-ph quant-ph | PDF

We propose a multilevel tensor-train (TT) framework for solving nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) in a global space-time formulation. While space-time TT solvers have demonstrated significant potential for compressed high-dimensional simulations, the literature contains few systematic comparisons with classical time-stepping methods, limited error convergence analyses, and little quantitative assessment of the impact of TT rounding on numerical accuracy. Likewise, existing studies fail to demonstrate performance across a diverse set of PDEs and parameter ranges. In practice, monolithic Newton iterations may stagnate or fail to converge in strongly nonlinear, stiff, or advection-dominated regimes, where poor initial guesses and severely ill-conditioned space-time Jacobians hinder robust convergence. We overcome this limitation by introducing a coarse-to-fine multilevel strategy fully embedded within the TT format. Each level refines both spatial and temporal resolutions while transferring the TT solution through low-rank prolongation operators, providing robust initializations for successive Newton solves. Residuals, Jacobians, and transfer operators are represented directly in TT and solved with the adaptive-rank DMRG algorithm. Numerical experiments for a selection of nonlinear PDEs including Fisher-KPP, viscous Burgers, sine-Gordon, and KdV cover diffusive, convective, and dispersive dynamics, demonstrating that the multilevel TT approach consistently converges where single-level space-time Newton iterations fail. In dynamic, advection-dominated (nonlinear) scenarios, multilevel TT surpasses single-level TT, achieving high accuracy with significantly reduced computational cost, specifically when high-fidelity numerical simulation is required.

An Efficient and Robust Projection Enhanced Interpolation Based Tensor Train Decomposition

Daniel Hayes, Jing-Mei Qiu, Tianyi Shi

2602.08987 | Sat Feb 07 2026 | math.NA | PDF

The tensor-train (TT) format is a data-sparse tensor representation commonly used in high dimensional data approximations. In order to represent data with interpretability in data science, researchers develop data-centric skeletonized low rank approximations. However, these methods might still suffer from accuracy degeneracy, nonrobustness, and high computation costs. In this paper, given existing skeletonized TT approximations, we propose a family of projection enhanced interpolation based algorithms to further improve approximation accuracy while keeping low computational complexity. We do this as a postprocessing step to existing interpolative decompositions, via oversampling data not in skeletons to include more information and selecting subsets of pivots for faster projections. We illustrate the performances of our proposed methods with extensive numerical experiments. These include up to 10D synthetic datasets such as tensors generated from kernel functions, and tensors constructed from Maxwellian distribution functions that arise in kinetic theory. Our results demonstrate significant accuracy improvement over original skeletonized TT approximations, while using limited amount of computational resources.

Measurement-Based Preparation of Higher-Dimensional AKLT States and Their Quantum Computational Power

Wenhan Guo, Mikhail Litvinov, Tzu-Chieh Wei, Abid Khan, Kevin C. Smith

2602.07201 | Fri Feb 06 2026 | quant-ph | PDF

We investigate a constant-time, fusion measurement-based scheme to create AKLT states beyond one dimension. We show that it is possible to prepare such states on a given graph up to random spin-1 `decorations', each corresponding to a probabilistic insertion of a vertex along an edge. In investigating their utility in measurement-based quantum computation, we demonstrate that any such randomly decorated AKLT state possesses at least the same computational power as non-random ones, such as those on trivalent planar lattices. For AKLT states on Bethe lattices and their decorated versions we show that there exists a deterministic, constant-time scheme for their preparation. In addition to randomly decorated AKLT states, we also consider random-bond AKLT states, whose construction involves any of the canonical Bell states in the bond degrees of freedom instead of just the singlet in the original construction. Such states naturally emerge upon measuring all the decorative spin-1 sites in the randomly decorated AKLT states. We show that those random-bond AKLT states on trivalent lattices can be converted to encoded random graph states after acting with the same POVM on all sites. We also argue that these random-bond AKLT states possess similar quantum computational power as the original singlet-bond AKLT states via the percolation perspective.

Tensor network dynamical message passing for epidemic models

Cheng Ye, Zi-Song Shen, Pan Zhang

2602.06231 | Fri Feb 06 2026 | cond-mat.stat-mech physics.soc-ph | PDF

While epidemiological modeling is pivotal for informing public health strategies, a fundamental trade-off limits its predictive fidelity: exact stochastic simulations are often computationally intractable for large-scale systems, whereas efficient analytical approximations typically fail to account for essential short-range correlations and network loops. Here, we resolve this trade-off by introducing Tensor Network Dynamical Message Passing (TNDMP), a framework grounded in a rigorous property we term \textit{Susceptible-Induced Factorization}. This theoretical insight reveals that a susceptible node acts as a dynamical decoupler, factorizing the global evolution operator into localized components. Leveraging this, TNDMP provides a dual-mode algorithmic suite: an exact algorithm that computes local observables with minimal redundancy on tractable topologies and a scalable and tunable approximation for complex real-world networks. We demonstrate that widely adopted heuristics, such as Dynamical Message Passing (DMP) and Pair Approximation (PA), are mathematically recoverable as low-order limits of our framework. Numerical validation in synthetic and real-world networks confirms that TNDMP significantly outperforms existing methods to predict epidemic thresholds and steady states, offering a rigorous bridge between the efficiency of message passing and the accuracy of tensor network formalisms.