Entanglement Estimation in Tensor Network States via Sampling

We introduce a method for extracting meaningful entanglement measures of tensor network states in general dimensions. Current methods require the explicit reconstruction of the density matrix, which is highly demanding, or the contraction of replicas, which requires an effort exponential in the number of replicas and which is costly in terms of memory. In contrast, our method requires the stochastic sampling of matrix elements of the classically represented reduced states with respect to random states drawn from simple product probability measures constituting frames. Even though not corresponding to physical operations, such matrix elements are straightforward to calculate for tensor network states, and their moments provide the Renyi entropies and negativities as well as their symmetry-resolved components. We test our method on the one-dimensional critical XX chain and the two-dimensional toric code in a checkerboard geometry. Although the cost is exponential in the subsystem size, it is sufficiently moderate so that-in contrast with other approaches-accurate results can be obtained on a personal computer for relatively large subsystem sizes.

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We introduce a method for extracting meaningful entanglement measures of tensor network states in general dimensions. The method involves stochastic sampling of matrix elements to calculate their moments, providing Renyi entropies and negativities. The method is tested on the one-dimensional critical XX chain and the two-dimensional toric code, showing satisfactory results.