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We introduce a generalizable framework for learning to identify effective Hamiltonians directly from experimental data in solid-state quantum systems. Our approach is based on a physics-informed neural network architecture that embeds…

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Quantum computers are expected to help us to achieve accurate simulation of the dynamics of many-body quantum systems. However, the limitations of current NISQ devices prevents us from realising this goal today. Recently an algorithm for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-17 Jonathan Wei Zhong Lau , Kishor Bharti , Tobias Haug , Leong Chuan Kwek

Given an initial quantum state |psi_I> and a final quantum state |psi_F> in a Hilbert space, there exist Hamiltonians H under which |psi_I> evolves into |psi_F>. Consider the following quantum brachistochrone problem: Subject to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Carl M. Bender , Dorje C. Brody , Hugh F. Jones , Bernhard K. Meister

Many quantum algorithms, such as adiabatic algorithms (e.g. AQC) and phase randomisation, require simulating Hamiltonian evolution. In addition, the simulation of physical systems is an important objective in its own right. In many cases,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Benoît Dubus , Joseph Cunningham , Jérémie Roland

Simulating quantum dynamics is one of the most important applications of quantum computers. Traditional approaches for quantum simulation involve preparing the full evolved state of the system and then measuring some physical quantity.…

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We present a quantum algorithm for simulating rovibrational Hamiltonians on fault-tolerant quantum computers. The method integrates exact curvilinear kinetic energy operators and general-form potential energy surfaces expressed in a hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Michał Szczepanik , Ákos Nagy , Emil Żak

The models we use, habitually, to describe quantum nonlinear optical processes have been remarkably successful yet, with few exceptions, they each contain a mathematical flaw. We present this flaw, show how it can be fixed and, in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-18 Stephen M. Barnett

Nonequilibrium time evolution of large quantum systems is a strong candidate for quantum advantage. Variational quantum algorithms have been put forward for this task, but their quantum optimization routines suffer from trainability and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Refik Mansuroglu , Felix Fischer , Michael J. Hartmann

Based oh the properties of Lie algebras, in this work we develop a general framework to linearize the von-Neumann equation rendering it in a suitable form for quantum simulations. We show that one of these linearizations of the von-Neumann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Alejandro Kunold

Quantum computing's potential for exponential speedup is fundamentally limited by decoherence, a phenomenon arising from environmental interactions. Non-Hermitian quantum mechanics, particularly $PT$-symmetric systems, offers a novel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Duttatreya , Ipsika Mohanty , Sanjib Dey

We study the potential utility of classical techniques of spectral sparsification of graphs as a preprocessing step for digital quantum algorithms, in particular, for Hamiltonian simulation. Our results indicate that spectral sparsification…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Steven Herbert , Sathyawageeswar Subramanian

One of the postulates of quantum mechanics is that the Hamiltonian is Hermitian, as this guarantees that the eigenvalues are real. Recently there has been an interest in asking if $H^\dagger = H$ is a necessary condition, and has lead to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Damien Martin

The efficient simulation of quantum dynamics and ground states is a central challenge in physics and a key frontier for quantum advantage. While short-time evolution in one-dimensional systems can often be simulated classically, extending…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Yusen Wu , Yukun Zhang , Chuan Wang , Xiao Yuan

The (tolerant) Hamiltonian locality testing problem, introduced in [Bluhm, Caro,Oufkir `24], is to determine whether a Hamiltonian $H$ is $\varepsilon_1$-close to being $k$-local (i.e. can be written as the sum of weight-$k$ Pauli…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 John Kallaugher , Daniel Liang

Although a universal quantum computer is still far from reach, the tremendous advances in controllable quantum devices, in particular with solid-state systems, make it possible to physically implement "quantum simulators". Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Zhixin Wang , Xiu Gu , Lian-Ao Wu , Yu-xi Liu

Solving partial differential equations for extremely large-scale systems within a feasible computation time serves in accelerating engineering developments. Quantum computing algorithms, particularly the Hamiltonian simulations, present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Yuki Sato , Ruho Kondo , Ikko Hamamura , Tamiya Onodera , Naoki Yamamoto

With a focus on universal quantum computing for quantum simulation, and through the example of lattice gauge theories, we introduce rather general quantum algorithms that can efficiently simulate certain classes of interactions consisting…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-12-27 Zohreh Davoudi , Alexander F. Shaw , Jesse R. Stryker

What is the time-optimal way of using a set of control Hamiltonians to obtain a desired interaction? Vidal, Hammerer and Cirac [Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 (2002) 237902] have obtained a set of powerful results characterizing the time-optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Henry L. Haselgrove , Michael A. Nielsen , Tobias J. Osborne

Principal component analysis is an important dimension reduction technique in machine learning. In [S. Lloyd, M. Mohseni and P. Rebentrost, Nature Physics 10, 631-633, (2014)], a quantum algorithm to implement principal component analysis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Changpeng Shao

Hamiltonian simulations are key subroutines in adiabatic quantum computation, quantum control, and quantum many-body physics, where quantum dynamics often happen in the low-energy sector. In contrast to time-independent Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Shuo Zhou , Zhaokai Pan , Weiyuan Gong , Tongyang Li