Quantum Circuits for Matrix-Product Unitaries

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Main Authors: Styliaris, Georgios, Trivedi, Rahul, Cirac, J. Ignacio
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author Styliaris, Georgios
Trivedi, Rahul
Cirac, J. Ignacio
author_facet Styliaris, Georgios
Trivedi, Rahul
Cirac, J. Ignacio
contents Matrix-product unitaries (MPUs) are many-body unitary operators that, as a consequence of their tensor-network structure, preserve the entanglement area law in 1D systems. However, it is unknown how to implement an MPU as a quantum circuit since the individual tensors describing the MPU are not unitary. In this Letter, we show that a large class of MPUs can be implemented with a polynomial-depth quantum circuit. For an $N$-site MPU built from a repeated bulk tensor with open boundary, we explicitly construct a quantum circuit of polynomial depth $T = O(N^α)$ realizing the MPU, where the constant $α$ depends only on the bulk and boundary tensor and not the system size $N$. We show that this class includes nontrivial unitaries that generate long-range entanglement and, in particular, contains a large class of unitaries constructed from representations of $C^*$-weak Hopf algebras. Furthermore, we also adapt our construction to nonuniform translationally-varying MPUs and show that they can be implemented by a circuit of depth $O(N^β \, \mathrm{poly}\, D)$ where $β\le 1 + \log_2 \sqrt{D}/ s_{\min}$, with $D$ being the bond dimension and $s_{\min}$ the smallest nonzero Schmidt value of the normalized Choi state corresponding to the MPU.
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Styliaris, Georgios
Trivedi, Rahul
Cirac, J. Ignacio
Quantum Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mathematical Physics
Matrix-product unitaries (MPUs) are many-body unitary operators that, as a consequence of their tensor-network structure, preserve the entanglement area law in 1D systems. However, it is unknown how to implement an MPU as a quantum circuit since the individual tensors describing the MPU are not unitary. In this Letter, we show that a large class of MPUs can be implemented with a polynomial-depth quantum circuit. For an $N$-site MPU built from a repeated bulk tensor with open boundary, we explicitly construct a quantum circuit of polynomial depth $T = O(N^α)$ realizing the MPU, where the constant $α$ depends only on the bulk and boundary tensor and not the system size $N$. We show that this class includes nontrivial unitaries that generate long-range entanglement and, in particular, contains a large class of unitaries constructed from representations of $C^*$-weak Hopf algebras. Furthermore, we also adapt our construction to nonuniform translationally-varying MPUs and show that they can be implemented by a circuit of depth $O(N^β \, \mathrm{poly}\, D)$ where $β\le 1 + \log_2 \sqrt{D}/ s_{\min}$, with $D$ being the bond dimension and $s_{\min}$ the smallest nonzero Schmidt value of the normalized Choi state corresponding to the MPU.
title Quantum Circuits for Matrix-Product Unitaries
topic Quantum Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08160