diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 397af2d..dac0c96 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 name = "ITensorBase"
 uuid = "4795dd04-0d67-49bb-8f44-b89c448a1dc7"
-version = "0.10.2"
+version = "0.10.3"
 authors = ["ITensor developers <support@itensor.org> and contributors"]
 
 [workspace]
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Mooncake = "0.4.202, 0.5"
 OrderedCollections = "1.6"
 Random = "1.10"
 SimpleTraits = "0.9.4"
-TensorAlgebra = "0.15"
+TensorAlgebra = "0.15.1"
 TensorOperations = "5.3.1"
 TermInterface = "2"
 TupleTools = "1.6"
diff --git a/src/broadcast.jl b/src/broadcast.jl
index c5c4527..14b8b0e 100644
--- a/src/broadcast.jl
+++ b/src/broadcast.jl
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-using ..ITensorBase: AbstractNamedTensor, ITensorBase, dimnames, named, nameddims, unnamed
+using ..ITensorBase:
+    AbstractNamedTensor, ITensorBase, dimnames, getperm, named, nameddims, unnamed
 using Base.Broadcast: Broadcast as BC, Broadcasted, broadcasted
 using TensorAlgebra: TensorAlgebra as TA
 
@@ -26,7 +27,18 @@ function broadcasted_unnamed(a::AbstractNamedTensor, names)
     # common case for the rest) needs no permutation, avoiding a `getperm` allocation and the
     # identity `permuteddims` wrapper. Skipping it makes a small add several times slower.
     dimnames(a) == names && return unnamed(a)
-    return unnamed(a, names)
+    return _broadcast_permuteddims_to(unnamed(a), getperm(dimnames(a), names))
+end
+# Broadcasting-only alignment: unlike the public `unnamed(a, names)` (which returns a
+# `Base.PermutedDimsArray`, a full array), this wraps in `TensorAlgebra.PermutedDims`, which stores
+# the permutation in a field rather than a type parameter, so it builds cheaply and type-stably
+# from the runtime permutation and is a broadcast leaf the linear-combination fold absorbs via
+# `bipermutedimsopadd!`. `PermutedDims` has almost no array interface, so it stays confined to this
+# hot path and is never handed back to users. Function barrier: `unnamed(a)` is abstractly typed,
+# so dispatching on the concrete array makes `ndims` a compile-time constant for the inferrable
+# `ntuple(…, Val(ndims))` permutation.
+@noinline function _broadcast_permuteddims_to(array::AbstractArray, perm)
+    return TA.PermutedDims(array, ntuple(i -> perm[i], Val(ndims(array))))
 end
 function broadcasted_unnamed(bc::Broadcasted, names)
     return broadcasted(bc.f, Base.Fix2(broadcasted_unnamed, names).(bc.args)...)
diff --git a/test/test_linearalgebra.jl b/test/test_linearalgebra.jl
index c292760..a360345 100644
--- a/test/test_linearalgebra.jl
+++ b/test/test_linearalgebra.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import LinearAlgebra as LA
-using ITensorBase: dimnames, named, unnamed
+using ITensorBase: dimnames, named, unname, unnamed
 using Test: @test, @testset
 
 @testset "LinearAlgebra (eltype=$(elt))" for elt in
@@ -14,5 +14,5 @@ using Test: @test, @testset
     @test unnamed(LA.lmul!(2, copy(a))) ≈ 2 * unnamed(a)
     @test unnamed(LA.rdiv!(copy(a), 2)) ≈ unnamed(a) / 2
     @test unnamed(LA.ldiv!(2, copy(a))) ≈ 2 \ unnamed(a)
-    @test LA.dot(a, b) ≈ LA.dot(unnamed(a), unnamed(b, dimnames(a)))
+    @test LA.dot(a, b) ≈ LA.dot(unnamed(a), unname(b, dimnames(a)))
 end