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ArticleQuantum science and technology2026

Scalable preparation of matrix product states with sequential and brick wall quantum circuits.

Tomasz Szołdra, Rick Mukherjee, Peter Schmelcher

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Tomasz SzołdraZentrum für Optische Quantentechnologien, Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2897-0506
Rick MukherjeeDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN 37403, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9267-4421
Peter SchmelcherZentrum für Optische Quantentechnologien, Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2637-0937

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Abstract

Preparing arbitrary quantum states requires exponential resources. Matrix product states (MPS) admit more efficient constructions, particularly when accuracy is traded for circuit complexity. Existing approaches to MPS preparation mostly rely on heuristic circuits that are deterministic but quickly saturate in accuracy, or on variational optimization methods that reach high fidelities but scale poorly. This work introduces an end-to-end MPS preparation framework that combines the strengths of both strategies within a single pipeline. Heuristic staircase-like and brick wall disentangler circuits provide warm-start initializations for variational optimization, enabling high-fidelity state preparation for large systems. Target MPSs are either specified as physical quantum states or constructed from classical datasets via amplitude encoding, using step-by-step singular value decompositions or tensor cross interpolation. The framework incorporates entanglement-based qubit reordering, reformulated as a quadratic assignment problem, and low-level optimizations that reduce depths by up to

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matrix product statesquantum state preparationtensor networksvariational circuits

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PMID42211260
PMCPMC13214863

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