Tensor Network Contractions

Shi-Ju Ran is an associate professor in the department of physics at Capital Normal University (CNU), Beijing, China. He obtained his bachelor's degree in the department of physics at Beijing Normal University, and his Ph.D. in the school of physics at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. During 2015-2018, he worked as post-doctoral fellow at ICFO - the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona, Spain. His research interests include quantum many-body physics, tensor network algorithms, multi-linear algebra (tensor decompositions), and quantum machine learning. He is particularly enthusiastic about the highly inter-disciplinary researches, such as those between artificial intelligence and quantum physics. Emanuele Tirrito obtained his Master's degree in theoretical physics in 2014 at Pisa University. In 2015 he joined the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Castelledefels as a PhD student under Prof. Maciej Lewenstein's supervision. In 2018 he was a visiting student at Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz. His main research interests include quantum many-body physics, tensor network algorithms, topological insulators and quantum machine learning. Cheng Peng is a postdoc scholar at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES). Her research focuses on strongly correlated systems through numeric methods. She was a visiting student at ICFO in 2016. She obtained her Doctor degree of theoretical physics at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in the year of 2018. She has been working mostly on applying matrix product state / matrix product operator (MPS/MPO) based density matrix renormalization group and tensor network algorithms to study a variety of spin and fermionic systems. Xi Chen obtained his PhD in theoretical physics in 2019. He has been working mostly on frustrated spin system, quantum spin liquid and topological ordered states by utilizing tensor network methods. He has published several peer-reviewed articles in international journals. Luca Tagliacozzo is a Lecturer in Physics and Chancellor's fellow at the University of Strathclyde since 2015. He is currently on leave to the Universitat de Barcelona as a Ramon y Cajal fellow. He obtained is Master degree at Università degli studi di Torino in 2000 and two PhD in high-energy physics in 2006 from the Politecnico di Torino and the Universitat de Barcelona. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Universitat de Barcelona (2006-2007), the University of Queensland (2008-2010) and a Marie Curie Fellow at ICFO (2010-2015). His research focuses on the quantum many-body problem in and out of equilibrium using tensor networks and quantum simulations. He also actively works on the connections of these approaches to statistical mechanics and high-energy physics. Gang Su is Distinguished Professor and Vice-President at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), where he has taught and worked on condensed matter theory, statistical physics and computational physics for more than twenty-five years. He has obtained his bachelor's degree of Science and Ph.D. in theoretical physics at Lanzhou University, China. In 1993-99, he worked as a CEEC research fellow at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA, an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow at Köln University, Germany, and a JSPS research fellow at Tokyo University of Science, Japan. He has published more than 240 papers. His research projects have been funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the National N

Introduction.- Tensor Network: Basic Definitions and Properties.- Two-Dimensional Tensor Networks and Contraction Algorithms.- Tensor Network Approaches for Higher-Dimensional Quantum Lattice Models.- Tensor Network Contraction and Multi-Linear Algebra.- Quantum Entanglement Simulation Inspired by Tensor Network.- Summary.

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