Classical Simulability from Operator Entanglement Scaling

arXiv:2603.05656 · quant-ph, cond-mat.stat-mech, hep-th · Submitted 2026-03-05 · Read on arXiv

quant-ph, cond-mat.stat-mech, hep-th

Submitted: 2026-03-05

Updated: 2026-10-19

Comments: 6+11 pages, 2+2 figures. v4: fixed minor errors

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Entanglement — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Operator Entanglement — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Related papers

• Reconquering Bell sampling on qudits: stabilizer learning and testing, quantum pseudorandomness bounds, and more
• Encrypted clones can leak: Classification of informative subsets in Quantum Encrypted Cloning
• Polynomial-time classical and quantum simulation of quantum impurity models
• A quasiparticle-protected superconducting qubit
• Theory of quantum-enhanced interferometry with general Markovian light sources
• A convergent hierarchy of spectral gap certificates for qubit Hamiltonians