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For generic 1D stabilizer codes with a non-degenerate ground state and periodic boundaries, the paper derives bounds on MPS bond dimension and matrix rank.
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“For generic 1D stabilizer codes having a non-degenerate ground state with periodic boundary condition, we obtain an expression for the lower bound of their MPS bond dimension, and an upper bound for the rank of their MPS matrices.”
From Zheng et al. (2019), arXiv 1812.08171. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 22 Oct 2026.
stabilizer code:
A quantum error-correcting code defined by a set of commuting operators, whose joint lowest-energy state or states encode the information.
MPS bond dimension:
The size of the matrices in a matrix product state, which sets how much entanglement the representation can capture.
non-degenerate ground state:
A lowest-energy state that is unique, with no other state sharing the same lowest energy.
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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 translation-invariant stabilizer codes, giving bounds, an RBM construction algorithm and a conjecture.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 22 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
The claim gives a quantitative handle on how large an MPS description of such a code's ground state must be, and how restricted its matrices are. This matters because the paper links rank-1 MPS matrices to whether a state can be written exactly as an RBM state, a type of neural-network quantum state. The bounds therefore help show which stabilizer-code ground states an RBM could represent exactly, and how compactly.
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What the authors did
The authors analysed the ground states of one-dimensional, translation-invariant stabilizer codes theoretically, relating their RBM and MPS descriptions. They also gave an algorithm for a class of models, illustrated with a family of examples.
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What they found
A generic translation-invariant, finitely connected RBM state can be written as an MPS whose matrices have rank 1, which the authors call an 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 MPS matrix rank.
For cocycle Hamiltonians with rank-1 MPS matrices, the authors give an algorithm for an RBM, and the resulting RBM-MPS has the minimal bond dimension.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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"For generic 1D stabilizer codes having a non-degenerate ground state with periodic boundary condition, we obtain an expression for the lower bound of their MPS bond dimension, and an upper bound for the rank of their MPS matrices."
(Zheng et al., Physical review. B./Physical review. B, 2019)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): For generic 1D stabilizer codes with a non-degenerate ground state and periodic boundaries, the paper derives bounds on MPS bond dimension and matrix rank.
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Refuted if there exists a generic one‑dimensional translationally invariant stabiliser code with a unique ground state under periodic boundary conditions whose exact matrix product state representation has a bond dimension strictly smaller than the paper’s lower‑bound expression or whose MPS matrices have rank strictly larger than the paper’s upper‑bound expression.
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