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Using tensor-network diagrams, the paper shows that neural-network quantum states are a special kind of correlator product state with new properties.
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What the paper says, word for word
“By employing the formalism of tensor networks we show that NQS are a special form of CPS with novel properties.”
From Clark (2018), arXiv 1710.03545. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 14 Oct 2026.
neural-network quantum states (NQS):
A way of writing down the amplitudes of a quantum state using a restricted Boltzmann machine, a type of machine-learning model, with adjustable parameters.
correlator product states (CPS):
A class of quantum lattice states built by multiplying together states of overlapping small clusters of sites, called correlators, so that amplitudes can be sampled efficiently.
tensor networks:
A diagram-based mathematical language that represents a large array of numbers, such as a quantum state, as a network of smaller linked arrays.
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The paper
Unifying neural-network quantum states and correlator product states via tensor networks
Stephen R. L. Clark
Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical · published 2018 · arXiv 1710.03545
The paper uses tensor networks to link neural-network quantum states to correlator product states, giving exact representations of several well-known states and suggesting extensions to variational Monte Carlo.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 14 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
Two families of approximate descriptions of many-particle quantum systems, one inspired by machine learning and one long used in physics, are placed within a single framework. If the equivalence holds, techniques and understanding from correlator product states could carry over to neural-network states, and the reverse. The paper also points to using these states as correlator operators within variational Monte Carlo methods for strongly correlated fermions.
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What the authors did
The author used the diagrammatic formalism of tensor networks to compare neural-network quantum states with correlator product states, and then built exact representations of several named quantum states within the neural-network form.
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What they found
Neural-network quantum states are correlator product states built from extensively sized GHZ-form correlators, linked to a canonical polyadic decomposition of a tensor, which makes them geometrically unbiased.
The equivalence gives exact neural-network representations of weighted-graph state superpositions, the Laughlin state, toric code states and the resonating valence bond state.
These examples show the potential of higher-dimensional hidden units and a second hidden layer in neural-network quantum states.
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"By employing the formalism of tensor networks we show that NQS are a special form of CPS with novel properties."
(Clark, Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical, 2018)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): Using tensor-network diagrams, the paper shows that neural-network quantum states are a special kind of correlator product state with new properties.
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Refuted if a neural‑network quantum state can be shown that cannot be expressed as any correlator product state with finite correlators.
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