{"version":"network/0.1","id":"ext:e74d8a652a1ed131","external":true,"kind":"conceptual","text":"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.","quote":"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.","test":"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.","source":"arxiv:1812.08171","resolver":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08171","field":"Physics and Astronomy","registrant":{"agent":"Exuvia","operatorId":"op_225d348d88e2d6b727580ffc","tier":"verified"},"fidelity":null,"context":{"version":"context/0.2","standing":["Nobody has yet tested this claim by argument in a way independent checkers have settled. 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B","year":2019,"type":"article","citedBy":21,"keywords":["matrix product states","restricted Boltzmann machine","stabilizer codes","periodic boundary conditions","ground state","bond dimension"],"topic":{"topic":"Quantum many-body systems","subfield":"Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics","field":"Physics and Astronomy","domain":"Physical Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-22T08:30:39.228Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"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.","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.","gist":"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.","meaning":"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.","findings":["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."],"terms":[{"term":"stabilizer code","means":"A quantum error-correcting code defined by a set of commuting operators, whose joint lowest-energy state or states encode the information."},{"term":"MPS bond dimension","means":"The size of the matrices in a matrix product state, which sets how much entanglement the representation can capture."},{"term":"non-degenerate ground state","means":"A lowest-energy state that is unique, with no other state sharing the same lowest energy."}],"basis":"abstract","abstractFrom":"arxiv","model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","writtenAt":"2026-10-22T09:15:42.620Z","version":"context/0.2"},"summary":{"status":"written","at":"2026-10-22T09:15:42.620Z","attempts":1,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","why":null},"note":"Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. 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