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most citedHyper-optimized tensor network contraction

187 citations · 944 across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

quant-ph2026

The table maker's quantum search

Benjamin C. A. Morrison, Stefanos Kourtis

We show that quantum search can be used to compute the hardness to round an elementary function, that is, to determine the minimum working precision required to compute the values…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Concentration-Free Quantum Kernel Learning in the Rydberg Blockade

Ayana Sarkar, Martin Schnee, Sangeeth Das Kallullathil +4

Quantum kernel methods (QKMs) offer an appealing framework for machine learning on near-term quantum computers. However, QKMs generically suffer from exponential concentration, req…

quant-ph2025

Quantum Counting in the Rydberg Blockade

Joseph Gibson, Victor Drouin-Touchette, Stefanos Kourtis

We propose a quantum algorithm for approximately counting the number of solutions to planar 2-satisfiability (2SAT) formulas natively on neutral atom quantum computers. Our algorit…

quant-ph2025

Counting with the quantum alternating operator ansatz

Julien Drapeau, Shreya Banerjee, Stefanos Kourtis

We introduce a variational algorithm based on the quantum alternating operator ansatz (QAOA) for the approximate solution of computationally hard counting problems. Our algorithm,…

quant-ph2025

Postselection-free experimental observation of the measurement-induced phase transition in circuits with universal gates

Xiaozhou Feng, Jeremy Côté, Stefanos Kourtis +1

Monitored many-body systems can exhibit a phase transition between entangling and disentangling dynamical phases by tuning the strength of measurements made on the system as it evo…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024

Unconventional early-time relaxation in the Rydberg chain

Martin Schnee, Roya Radgohar, Stefanos Kourtis

We show that unconventional relaxation dynamics of special initial states in one-dimensional arrays of Rydberg atoms produce non-generic decay of the initial-state survival probabi…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024★ 2 cited

Tensor networks for -spin models

Benjamin Lanthier, Jeremy Côté, Stefanos Kourtis

We introduce a tensor network algorithm for the solution of -spin models. We show that bond compression through rank-revealing decompositions performed during the tensor network…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Fermionic Machine Learning

Jérémie Gince, Jean-Michel Pagé, Marco Armenta +2

We introduce fermionic machine learning (FermiML), a machine learning framework based on fermionic quantum computation. FermiML models are expressed in terms of parameterized match…

quant-ph2023★ 11 cited

Low-depth Clifford circuits approximately solve MaxCut

Manuel H. Muñoz-Arias, Stefanos Kourtis, Alexandre Blais

We introduce a quantum-inspired approximation algorithm for MaxCut based on low-depth Clifford circuits. We start by showing that the solution unitaries found by the adaptive quant…

cond-mat.str-el2023

Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering in the topological semimetal FeSi

Yao Shen, Anirudh Chandrasekaran, Jennifer Sears +8

The energy spectrum of topological semimetals contains protected degeneracies in reciprocal space that correspond to Weyl, Dirac, or multifold fermionic states. To exploit the unco…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 4 cited

Interplay of broken symmetry and delocalized excitations in the insulating state of 1-TaS

Xun Jia, Anubhab Haldar, Jungho Kim +13

Coexistence of localized and extended excitations is central to the macroscopic properties of correlated materials. For 5d transition metal compounds, electron correlations alone g…

quant-ph2022★ 3 cited

Qubit Vitrification and Entanglement Criticality on a Quantum Simulator

Jeremy Côté, Stefanos Kourtis

Many elusive quantum phenomena emerge from the interaction of a quantum system with its classical environment. Quantum simulators enable us to program this interaction by using mea…

quant-ph2022★ 3 cited

Finite-rate sparse quantum codes aplenty

Maxime Tremblay, Guillaume Duclos-Cianci, Stefanos Kourtis

We introduce a methodology for generating random multi-qubit stabilizer codes based on solving a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) on random bipartite graphs. This framework al…

cond-mat.dis-nn2021★ 12 cited

Entanglement phase transition with spin glass criticality

Jeremy Côté, Stefanos Kourtis

We define an ensemble of random Clifford quantum circuits whose output state undergoes an entanglement phase transition between two volume-law phases as a function of measurement r…

quant-ph2020★ 187 cited

Hyper-optimized tensor network contraction

Johnnie Gray, Stefanos Kourtis

Tensor networks represent the state-of-the-art in computational methods across many disciplines, including the classical simulation of quantum many-body systems and quantum circuit…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 89 cited

Nonuniversal Entanglement Level Statistics in Projection-driven Quantum Circuits

Lei Zhang, Justin A. Reyes, Stefanos Kourtis +3

We study the level-spacing statistics in the entanglement spectrum of output states of random universal quantum circuits where qubits are subject to a finite probability of project…

cond-mat.stat-mech2019★ 7 cited

Obstacles to quantum annealing in a planar embedding of XORSAT

Pranay Patil, Stefanos Kourtis, Claudio Chamon +2

We introduce a planar embedding of the k-regular k-XORSAT problem, in which solutions are encoded in the ground state of a classical statistical mechanics model of reversible logic…

cond-mat.stat-mech2018

Ultra-slow dynamics in a translationally invariant spin model for multiplication and factorization

Lei Zhang, Stefanos Kourtis, Claudio Chamon +2

We construct a model of short-range interacting Ising spins on a translationally invariant two-dimensional lattice that mimics a reversible circuit that multiplies or factorizes in…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 25 cited

Observing spin fractionalization in the Kitaev spin liquid via temperature evolution of indirect resonant inelastic x-ray scattering

Gábor B. Halász, Stefanos Kourtis, Johannes Knolle +1

Motivated by the ongoing effort to search for high-resolution signatures of quantum spin liquids, we investigate the temperature dependence of the indirect resonant inelastic x-ray…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 63 cited

Quantum spin liquid at finite temperature: proximate dynamics and persistent typicality

I. Rousochatzakis, S. Kourtis, J. Knolle +2

Quantum spin liquids are long-range entangled states of matter with emergent gauge fields and fractionalized excitations. While candidate materials, such as the Kitaev honeycomb ru…

cond-mat.stat-mech2018★ 6 cited

Evaluating the Jones polynomial with tensor networks

Konstantinos Meichanetzidis, Stefanos Kourtis

We introduce tensor network contraction algorithms for the evaluation of the Jones polynomial of arbitrary knots. The value of the Jones polynomial of a knot maps to the partition…

cond-mat.stat-mech2018★ 42 cited

Fast counting with tensor networks

Stefanos Kourtis, Claudio Chamon, Eduardo R. Mucciolo +1

We introduce tensor network contraction algorithms for counting satisfying assignments of constraint satisfaction problems (#CSPs). We represent each arbitrary #CSP formula as a te…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 15 cited

Scrambling via Braiding of Nonabelions

Zhi-Cheng Yang, Konstantinos Meichanetzidis, Stefanos Kourtis +1

We study how quantum states are scrambled via braiding in systems of non-Abelian anyons through the lens of entanglement spectrum statistics. In particular, we focus on the degree…

cond-mat.str-el2017★ 15 cited

Symmetry breaking and fermionic fractional Chern insulator in topologically trivial bands

Stefanos Kourtis

We describe a mechanism by which fermions in topologically trivial bands can form correlated states exhibiting a fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect upon introduction of strong re…