Tail-Resolved Schmidt-Rank Width of Weighted Phase Networks: Noncommuting Activation Limits, Gauge-Stable Perturbations, and Approximate Tree Complexity
Byoungwoo Lee
Abstract
This work develops a finite-resolution counterpart of Schmidt-rank width for weighted phase networks and uses it to distinguish algebraic Schmidt-rank activation from spectrally resolved entanglement complexity. For a bipartition $A|A^c$ with Schmidt coefficients $s_1 \ge s_2 \ge \cdots$, define the discarded Schmidt-tail mass $$\tau_r^A(\psi)=\left(\sum_{j>r}s_j^2\right)^{1/2},$$ and the corresponding $\epsilon$-resolved Schmidt rank $$R_\epsilon^A(\psi)=\min\left\{r:\tau_r^A(\psi)\le\epsilon\right\}.$$ The global tail-resolved Schmidt-rank width is then $$\chi_{\mathrm{res}}^{(\epsilon)}(\psi)=\min_T\max_{e\in E(T)}\log_2R_\epsilon^{A_e}(\psi),$$ where $T$ ranges over subcubic decomposition trees and $A_e|A_e^c$ is the bipartition induced by deleting the tree edge $e$. At zero resolution, $\epsilon=0$, this quantity reduces to ordinary Schmidt-rank width. For graph states, the flat cut Schmidt spectrum gives an exact calibration: $$\chi_{\mathrm{res}}^{(\epsilon)}(|G\rangle)=\log_2\left\lceil(1-\epsilon^2)\,2^{\operatorname{rw}(G)}\right\rceil,\qquad0\le\epsilon<1,$$ where $\operatorname{rw}(G)$ is the graph rank-width. Consequently, graph families with linear rank-width retain linear tail-resolved Schmidt-rank width at every fixed finite resolution $\epsilon<1$. The paper next establishes a gauge-stable perturbation theory. After optimization over cut-local diagonal phases, Schmidt truncation tails satisfy the Lipschitz estimate $$\left|\tau_r^A(\psi)-\tau_r^A(\phi)\right|\led_{\mathrm{diag}}^A(\psi,\phi),$$ which yields a global resolution-shift sandwich for $\chi_{\mathrm{res}}^{(\epsilon)}$. For balanced pairwise weighted phase networks with crossing phase errors $\eta_e$, $$d_{\mathrm{diag}}^A\le\frac14\left\|\eta_{E(A,A^c)}\right\|_2.$$ If a fixed coupling template $W$ is implemented with coupling error $\Delta W$ and timing error $\Delta t$, then $$\eta=t\,\Delta W+\Delta t\,W+\Delta t\,\Delta W,$$ giving an explicit certificate that converts finite calibration and timing uncertainty into a guaranteed resolved-width bound. The tail-resolved width also controls approximate subcubic tree-tensor-network complexity. If $D_{\mathrm{TTN}}^{(\epsilon)}$ denotes the minimum possible maximal bond dimension of a subcubic TTN approximating the state within Hilbert-space norm error $\epsilon$, then $$2^{\chi_{\mathrm{res}}^{(\epsilon)}}\leD_{\mathrm{TTN}}^{(\epsilon)}\le2^{\chi_{\mathrm{res}}^{\left(\epsilon/\sqrt{2n-3}\right)}}.$$ The central application concerns the Clifford point of the complete weighted phase network. Consider $$|\Psi_V(\lambda)\rangle=\exp\left[i\sum_e\left(\pi+\lambda V_e\right)n_u n_v\right]|+\rangle^{\otimes n}.$$ For every fixed resolution $$0<\epsilon<\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}},$$ the tail-resolved width remains equal to $1$ for all sufficiently small $|\lambda|$, independently of the perturbation direction $V$. In contrast, at exact zero resolution an arbitrarily small generic nonuniform perturbation activates the maximal complete-support Schmidt-rank width $$\left\lceil\frac{n}{3}\right\rceil,$$ whereas a uniform perturbation activates only $$\log_2\left(\left\lceil\frac{n}{3}\right\rceil+1\right).$$ Thus the zero-resolution and zero-perturbation limits do not commute. For an open, dense, full-measure class of nonuniform perturbation directions, $$\lim_{\epsilon\downarrow0}\lim_{\lambda\to0}\chi_{\mathrm{res}}^{(\epsilon)}=1,$$ while $$\lim_{\lambda\to0,\ \lambda\neq0}\lim_{\epsilon\downarrow0}\chi_{\mathrm{res}}^{(\epsilon)}=\left\lceil\frac{n}{3}\right\rceil.$$ This establishes a sharp distinction between algebraic Schmidt activation and finite-resolution activation: infinitesimal symmetry breaking can create maximal exact Schmidt-rank width while remaining invisible at any fixed finite spectral resolution sufficiently close to the Clifford point. The results connect weighted phase and fixed $ZZ$/Ising networks, graph width parameters, Schmidt-spectrum stability, and approximate tensor-network complexity. The global phase-error certificate is intentionally conservative: it does not by itself establish thermodynamic robustness against a size-independent coherent error on every edge.