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We introduce a classical algorithm to approximate the free energy of local, translation-invariant, one-dimensional quantum systems in the thermodynamic limit of infinite chain size. While the ground state problem (i.e., the free energy at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi , Samuel O. Scalet

In the lead up to fault tolerance, the utility of quantum computing will be determined by how adequately the effects of noise can be circumvented in quantum algorithms. Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms such as the variational quantum…

Contextuality, one of the strongest forms of quantum correlations, delineates the quantum world and the classical one. It has been shown recently that some quantum models, in the form of infinite one-dimensional translation-invariant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Kaiyan Yang , Yanzheng Zhu , Xiao Zeng , Zuoheng Zou , Man-Hong Yung , Zizhu Wang

It is imperative that useful quantum computers be very difficult to simulate classically; otherwise classical computers could be used for the applications envisioned for the quantum ones. Perfect quantum computers are unarguably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Yiqing Zhou , E. Miles Stoudenmire , Xavier Waintal

The accurate computation of properties of large molecular systems is classically infeasible and is one of the applications in which it is hoped that quantum computers will demonstrate an advantage over classical devices. However, due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Michael A. Jones , Harish J. Vallury , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

Computing electronic structures of quantum systems is a key task underpinning many applications in photonics, solid-state physics, and quantum technologies. This task is typically performed through iterative algorithms to find the energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Shaobo Zhang , Akib Karim , Harry M. Quiney , Muhammad Usman

Universal fault-tolerant quantum computers will require error-free execution of long sequences of quantum gate operations, which is expected to involve millions of physical qubits. Before the full power of such machines will be available,…

The DMRG method is very effective at finding ground states of 1D quantum systems in practice, but it is a heuristic method, and there is no known proof for when it works. In this paper we describe an efficient classical algorithm which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-20 Dorit Aharonov , Itai Arad , Sandy Irani

The quantum guesswork quantifies the minimum number of queries needed to guess the state of a quantum ensemble if one is allowed to query only one state at a time. Previous approaches to the computation of the guesswork were based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-28 Michele Dall'Arno , Francesco Buscemi , Takeshi Koshiba

The Hubbard model has occupied the minds of condensed matter physicists for most part of the last century. This model provides insight into a range of phenomena in correlated electron systems. We wish to examine the paradigm of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Kunal Vyas , Fengping Jin , Hans De Raedt , Kristel Michielsen

Quantum algorithms speeding up classical counterparts are proposed for the problems: 1. Recognition of eigenvalues with fixed precision. Given a quantum circuit generating unitary mapping $U$ and a complex number the problem is to determine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri I. Ozhigov

Quantum chemistry calculations of large, strongly correlated systems are typically limited by the computation cost that scales exponentially with the size of the system. Quantum algorithms, designed specifically for quantum computers, can…

Variational Quantum Eigensolvers (VQEs) represent a promising approach to computing molecular ground states and energies on modern quantum computers. These approaches use a classical computer to optimize the parameters of a trial wave…

In this paper, we implement a quantum algorithm -on IBM quantum devices, IBM QASM simulator and PPRC computer cluster -to find the energy values of the ground state and the first excited state of a particle in a finite square-well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Sina Shokri , Shahnoosh Rafibakhsh , Faezeh Pooshgan , Rita Faeghi

Solving electronic structure problems is considered one of the most promising applications of quantum computing. However, due to limitations imposed by the coherence time of qubits in the Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) era or the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Shuo Sun , Chandan Kumar , Kevin Shen , Elvira Shishenina , Christian B. Mendl

A new method is proposed for determining the ground state wave function of a quantum many-body system on a quantum computer, without requiring an initial trial wave function that has good overlap with the true ground state. The technique of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 David B. Kaplan , Natalie Klco , Alessandro Roggero

Accurately computing the free energies of biological processes is a cornerstone of computer-aided drug design but it is a daunting task. The need to sample vast conformational spaces and account for entropic contributions makes the…

Quantum algorithms for simulating electronic ground states are slower than popular classical mean-field algorithms such as Hartree-Fock and density functional theory, but offer higher accuracy. Accordingly, quantum computers have been…

We propose a qubit efficient scheme to study ground state properties of quantum many-body systems on near-term noisy intermediate scale quantum computers. One can obtain a tensor network representation of the ground state using a number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Jin-Guo Liu , Yi-Hong Zhang , Yuan Wan , Lei Wang

We present a quantum algorithm for computing the Ramsey numbers whose computational complexity grows super-exponentially with the number of vertices of a graph on a classical computer. The problem is mapped to a decision problem on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-09 Hefeng Wang