[SUPERSEDED] The Tensor-Network Kinetic Solver - Classical, Deployable Today
Priyanca Ford · OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) · 2026
This record has been superseded. The current, updated version is A Tensor-Network Kinetic Solver for Fusion Transport: Matrix-Product-State Compression of the Distribution Function with Exponential Error Decay (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22645768). Please read and cite the current version. This page stays online so existing citations keep resolving. The kinetic distribution function is highly compressible in a low-rank tensor-network representation, and that yields a practical classical solver, not a storage trick. On a 1D1V BGK test, a matrix-product-state truncation reaches relative-L² error 2×10−⁴ at rank 8 using ~0.19× the dense storage, with the error falling exponentially in rank. Unlike the fault-tolerant-horizon quantum route, this runs today.