Improved Thermal Area Law and Quasilinear Time Algorithm for Quantum Gibbs States
Tomotaka Kuwahara, Álvaro M. Alhambra, Anurag Anshu
Abstract
An analysis of the ``area law'' for thermal states shows the presence of much weaker correlations than previously believed, providing an avenue for more efficient simulations of quantum many-body systems.
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QuantumThermalStatistical physicsPhysicsLawQuantum mechanicsThermodynamicsPolitical scienceQuantum many-body systemsAdvanced Thermodynamics and Statistical MechanicsQuantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture