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Universal algorithm for transforming Hamiltonian eigenvalues

Quantum Physics 2025-04-30 v6

Abstract

Manipulating Hamiltonians governing physical systems has found a broad range of applications, from quantum chemistry to semiconductor design. In this work, we provide a new way of manipulating Hamiltonians, by transforming their eigenvalues while keeping their eigenstates unchanged. We develop a universal algorithm that deterministically implements any desired (suitably differentiable) function on the eigenvalues of any unknown Hamiltonian, whose positive-time and negative-time dynamics are given as a black box. Our algorithm uses correlated randomness to efficiently combine two subroutines -- namely controlization and Fourier series simulation -- exemplifying a general compilation procedure that we develop. The time complexity of our algorithm is significantly reduced via said compilation technique compared to a na{\"i}ve concatenation of the subroutines and outperforms similar methods based on the quantum singular value transformation.

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@article{arxiv.2312.08848,
  title  = {Universal algorithm for transforming Hamiltonian eigenvalues},
  author = {Tatsuki Odake and Hlér Kristjánsson and Philip Taranto and Mio Murao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.08848},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

12+23 pages, 14 figures, close to published version. Note that a previous version of this article [v4] contains an algorithm to implement negative-time Hamiltonian dynamics without any auxilliary systems