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Paper 1

NLTS Hamiltonians from classical LTCs

Zhiyang He, Chinmay Nirkhe

Year
2022
Journal
arXiv preprint
DOI
arXiv:2210.02999
arXiv
2210.02999

We provide a completely self-contained construction of a family of NLTS Hamiltonians [Freedman and Hastings, 2014] based on ideas from [Anshu, Breuckmann, and Nirkhe, 2022], [Cross, He, Natarajan, Szegedy, and Zhu, 2022] and [Eldar and Harrow, 2017]. Crucially, it does not require optimal-parameter quantum LDPC codes and can be built from simple classical LTCs such as the repetition code on an expander graph. Furthermore, it removes the constant-rate requirement from the construction of Anshu, Breuckmann, and Nirkhe.

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Paper 2

Asymptotic Replacement for Quantum Channel Products with Applications to Inhomogeneous Matrix Product States

Lubashan Pathirana

Year
2026
Journal
arXiv preprint
DOI
arXiv:2605.00157
arXiv
2605.00157

We develop a product-level trace-Dobrushin theory for finite-dimensional quantum channel products and apply it to deterministic and stationary random inhomogeneous matrix product states in left-canonical CPTP gauge. For a product of channels, the centered trace-Dobrushin coefficient quantifies the residual dependence on the input state, and its decay is the criterion for trace-norm forgetting. In the deterministic setting, this decay is equivalent to asymptotic replacement by a moving replacement channel. For two-sided products, pullback forgetting produces a unique boundary state, which determines the canonical replacement family. For stationary random CPTP cocycles, submultiplicativity of the product coefficient yields a trace-Dobrushin Lyapunov exponent. We prove that the almost sure negativity of this exponent is equivalent to quenched trace-norm memory loss and gives exponential forward and pullback convergence to a unique dynamically stationary random replacement channel. When the \(\varrho\)-mixing profile of the channel environment tends to zero, we obtain annealed super-polynomial estimates, while independence gives annealed exponential estimates. Finally, we transfer these estimates to inhomogeneous matrix product states whose auxiliary transfer maps are CPTP. These channel estimates transfer to deterministic and stationary random inhomogeneous MPS, giving infinite-volume limits of trace-closed finite-volume states, quantitative boundary stability, and correlation bounds governed by the same auxiliary product coefficients.

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