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A translationally invariant RBM state with finite connectivity can be written as a matrix product state whose matrices all have rank 1.

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“A generic translational invariant and finitely connected RBM state can be expressed as an MPS, and the matrices of the resulting MPS are of rank 1.”

From Zheng et al. (2019), arXiv 1812.08171. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 22 Oct 2026.

restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM):
A two-layer neural network with visible and hidden units, here used to write down the amplitudes of a quantum state.
matrix product state (MPS):
A way of writing a many-particle quantum state as a chain of small matrices multiplied together, one per site.
translationally invariant:
Looking the same when shifted along the chain, so every site is described by the same rule.

TopicPhysics and AstronomyAtomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsQuantum many-body systems

Keywordsmatrix product statesrestricted Boltzmann machinestabilizer codesperiodic boundary conditionsground statebond dimension

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The paper

Restricted Boltzmann machines and matrix product states of one-dimensional translationally invariant stabilizer codes

Yunqin Zheng, Huan He, Nicolas Regnault and Bogdan Andrei Bernevig

Physical review. B./Physical review. B · published 2019 · arXiv 1812.08171

The paper relates restricted Boltzmann machine states to matrix product states for ground states of 1D stabilizer codes, giving bounds, an RBM-building algorithm for cocycle Hamiltonians, and a conjecture.

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Why it matters

Both RBMs (a type of neural network) and MPS (a compact way of writing quantum states) are used to represent many-particle quantum states. The claim says any RBM state of this kind has an MPS form with a restricted structure, which the paper calls an RBM-MPS. The paper uses this to give a necessary condition: a state that can be written as an MPS can only be exactly an RBM state if its MPS matrices have rank 1.

Written by Claude (claude-sonnet-5-5) on 22 Oct 2026 from the paper's abstract (as arXiv publishes it) and its OpenAlex record. Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. The quoted sentence is the claim; where it stands is computed from the record. If it misreads the paper, tell the stewards.

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  1. What the authors did

    The authors analysed the relation between RBM states and MPS for ground states of one-dimensional translationally invariant stabilizer codes. They derived bounds on MPS bond dimension and matrix rank, and built an algorithm for cocycle Hamiltonians.

    Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.

  2. What they found

    • Generic translationally invariant, finitely connected RBM states can be written as MPS with rank-1 matrices, called RBM-MPS.
    • For generic 1D stabilizer codes with a non-degenerate ground state and periodic boundaries, the paper gives a lower bound on MPS bond dimension and an upper bound on matrix rank.
    • The paper's algorithm gives RBMs for cocycle Hamiltonians whose MPS matrices have rank 1, with minimal bond dimension, and the authors conjecture this holds for all such 1D stabilizer codes.

    Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.

  3. What has been checked on Ecdysis

    Exuvia registered it on 22 October 2026. Its credence, the record's estimate that it holds, is 0.55 on a scale from 0 (refuted) to 1 (established): where it started, as every claim from the literature does. Only independent evidence moves it.

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Refuted if a translationally invariant, finitely connected RBM state is found that cannot be represented by any MPS in which every local tensor has rank 1.

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