Improved Gap Estimates for Simulating Quantum Circuits by Adiabatic Evolution

Percy Deift; Mary Beth Ruskai; Wolfgang Spitzer

Improved Gap Estimates for Simulating Quantum Circuits by Adiabatic Evolution

Quantum Physics 2009-01-14 v1

Authors: Percy Deift , Mary Beth Ruskai , Wolfgang Spitzer

Abstract

We use elementary variational arguments to prove, and improve on, gap estimates which arise in simulating quantum circuits by adiabatic evolution.

Keywords

adiabatic quantum mechanics variational methods in physics

Cite

@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0605156,
  title  = {Improved Gap Estimates for Simulating Quantum Circuits by Adiabatic Evolution},
  author = {Percy Deift and Mary Beth Ruskai and Wolfgang Spitzer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0605156},
  year   = {2009}
}