primary paper · identifier verified 2026-07-29
Simulating quantum computation by contracting tensor networks
Igor L. Markov, Yaoyun Shi · 2005
- Identifier
- arXiv:quant-ph/0511069
- Canonical URL
- https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0511069
Why it is in this atlas
Connects the cost of contracting a tensor network to the treewidth of its graph, which is the structural quantity behind contraction-order search.