Matrix product state and mean-field solutions for one-dimensional systems can be found efficiently

We consider the problem of approximating ground states of one-dimensional quantum systems within the two most common variational ansatzes, namely, the mean-field ansatz and matrix product states. We show that both for mean field and for matrix product states of fixed bond dimension, the optimal solutions can be found in a way which is provably efficient (i.e., scales polynomially). This implies that the corresponding variational methods can be in principle recast in a way which scales provably polynomially.Moreover, our findings imply that ground states of one-dimensional commuting Hamiltonians can be found efficiently.

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