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Determining quantum excited states is crucial across physics and chemistry but presents significant challenges for variational methods, primarily due to the need to enforce orthogonality to lower-energy states, often requiring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Shi-Xin Zhang , Lei Wang

It is proven that the exact excited-state wave function and energy may be obtained by minimizing the energy expectation value of trial wave functions that are constrained only to have the correct nodes of the state of interest. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-24 Federico Zahariev , Mark S. Gordon , Mel Levy

We compute modular Hamiltonians for excited states obtained by perturbing the vacuum with a unitary operator. We use operator methods and work to first order in the strength of the perturbation. For the most part we divide space in half and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Daniel Kabat , Gilad Lifschytz , Phuc Nguyen , Debajyoti Sarkar

We consider spaces of trial wavefunctions for ground states and edge excitations in the fractional quantum Hall effect that can be obtained in various ways. In one way, functions are obtained by analyzing the entanglement of the ground…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-04 T. S. Jackson , N. Read , S. H. Simon

We show that, in certain circumstances, exact excitation energies appear as locally site-independent (or flat) modes if one records the excitation spectrum of the effective Hamiltonian while sweeping through the lattice in the variational…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-24 Natalia Chepiga , Frédéric Mila

We combine recent advances in excited state variational principles, fast multi-Slater Jastrow methods, and selective configuration interaction to create multi-Slater Jastrow wave function approximations that are optimized for individual…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-19 Sergio D. Pineda Flores , Eric Neuscamman

Calculating the energy spectrum of a quantum system is an important task, for example to analyse reaction rates in drug discovery and catalysis. There has been significant progress in developing algorithms to calculate the ground state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Suguru Endo , Tyson Jones , Sam McArdle , Xiao Yuan , Simon Benjamin

In this paper, we derive tail approximations of integrals of exponential functions of Gaussian random fields with varying mean functions and approximations of the associated point processes. This study is motivated naturally by multiple…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-12-05 Jingchen Liu , Gongjun Xu

We introduce a frustrated spin 1/2 Hamiltonian which is an extension of the two dimensional $J_1 - J_2$ Heisenberg model. The ground states of this model are exactly obtained at a first order quantum phase transition between two regions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 C. D. Batista , S. A. Trugman

Excited states are stationary localized solutions of the Gross--Pitaevskii equation with a harmonic potential and a repulsive nonlinear term that have zeros on a real axis. Existence and asymptotic properties of excited states are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-26 Dmitry Pelinovsky

The method of analytic continuation is used to find exact integral equations for a selection of finite-volume energy levels for the non-unitary minimal models $M_{2,2N+3}$ perturbed by their $\varphi_{13}$ operators. The N=2 case is studied…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Patrick Dorey , Roberto Tateo

In frustrated antiferromagnets with isotropic exchange interactions, there is typically a manifold of degenerate classical ground states. This degeneracy is broken by the (free) energy of quantum or thermal fluctuations, or the uniform…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-28 Brond E. Larson , Christopher L. Henley

We consider the problem whether graph states can be ground states of local interaction Hamiltonians. For Hamiltonians acting on n qubits that involve at most two-body interactions, we show that no n-qubit graph state can be the exact,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-18 M. Van den Nest , K. Luttmer , W. Dür , H. J. Briegel

Processes related to electronically excited states are central in many areas of science, however accurately determining excited-state energies remains a major challenge in theoretical chemistry. Recently, higher energy stationary states of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 Hugh G. A. Burton , Alex J. W. Thom , Pierre-François Loos

If a local Hamiltonian eigenstate is mapped to another state by local operators commuting with the Hamiltonian terms, the latter is also an eigenstate. This basic observation implies a no-go result for both being a unique ground state and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Jose Garre Rubio

Computing ground states of local Hamiltonians is a fundamental problem in condensed matter physics. We give the first randomized polynomial-time algorithm for finding ground states of gapped one-dimensional Hamiltonians: it outputs an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-22 Zeph Landau , Umesh Vazirani , Thomas Vidick

We show how every bound state of a finite system of identical fermions, whether a ground state or an excited one, defines a density functional. Degeneracies created by a symmetry group can be trivially lifted by a pseudo-Zeeman effect. When…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-26 B. G. Giraud , K. Kato , A. Ohnishi , S. M. A. Rombouts

We show that ground states of unfrustrated quantum spin-1/2 systems on general lattices satisfy an entanglement area law, provided that the Hamiltonian can be decomposed into nearest-neighbor interaction terms which have entangled excited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Niel de Beaudrap , Tobias J. Osborne , Jens Eisert

We present a new first-principles formalism for calculating forces for optically excited electronic states using the interacting Green's function approach with the GW-Bethe Salpeter Equation method. This advance allows for efficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Sohrab Ismail-Beigi Steven G. Louie

Using the effective rotational Hamiltonian method, we have conducted an analysis of the D218O ground and the first excited vibration state rotational energy levels. The analysis was based on the effective Hamiltonians represented in several…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 I. A. Vasilenko , O. V. Naumenko , E. R. Polovtseva , A. D. Bykov