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Quantum Computational Method of Finding the Ground State Energy and Expectation Values

Quantum Physics 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We propose a new quantum computational way of obtaining a ground-state energy and expectation values of observables of interacting Hamiltonians. It is based on the combination of the adiabatic quantum evolution to project a ground state of a non-interacting Hamiltonian onto a ground state of an interacting Hamiltonian and the phase estimation algorithm to retrieve the ground-state energy. The expectation value of an observable for the ground state is obtained with the help of Hellmann-Feynman theorem. As an illustration of our method, we consider a displaced harmonic oscillator, a quartic anharmonic oscillator,and a potential scattering model. The results obtained by this method are in good agreement with the known results.

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@article{arxiv.0712.0789,
  title  = {Quantum Computational Method of Finding the Ground State Energy and Expectation Values},
  author = {Sangchul Oh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.0789},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A

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