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Beyond computer science, quantum complexity theory can potentially revolutionize multiple branches of physics, ranging from quantum many-body systems to quantum field theory. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between the sample…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Nengkun Yu , Tzu-Chieh Wei

Sampling from Gibbs states -- states corresponding to system in thermal equilibrium -- has recently been shown to be a task for which quantum computers are expected to achieve super-polynomial speed-up compared to classical computers,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Joel Rajakumar , James D. Watson

A quantum system's state is identified with a density matrix. Though their probabilistic interpretation is rooted in ensemble theory, density matrices embody a known shortcoming. They do not completely express an ensemble's physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Fabio Anza , James P. Crutchfield

The quest for quantum computers is motivated by their potential for solving problems that defy existing, classical, computers. The theory of computational complexity, one of the crown jewels of computer science, provides a rigorous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-10 C. R. Laumann , R. Moessner , A. Scardicchio , S. L. Sondhi

Given a Boolean formula $\phi(x)$ in conjunctive normal form (CNF), the density of states counts the number of variable assignments that violate exactly $e$ clauses, for all values of $e$. Thus, the density of states is a histogram of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Tuhin Sahai , Anurag Mishra , Jose Miguel Pasini , Susmit Jha

The vast complexity is a daunting property of generic quantum states that poses a significant challenge for theoretical treatment, especially in non-equilibrium setups. Therefore, it is vital to recognize states which are locally less…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-28 Markus Schmitt , Zala Lenarčič

Computing many-body ground state energies and resolving electronic structure calculations are fundamental problems for fields such as quantum chemistry or condensed matter. Several quantum computing algorithms that address these problems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-12 Karen J. Morenz Korol , Kenny Choo , Antonio Mezzacapo

Traditional quantum physics solves ground states for a given Hamiltonian, while quantum information science asks for the existence and construction of certain Hamiltonians for given ground states. In practical situations, one would be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Jianxin Chen , Zhengfeng Ji , Bei Zeng , D. L. Zhou

Quantum statistical mechanics allows us to extract thermodynamic information from a microscopic description of a many-body system. A key step is the calculation of the density of states, from which the partition function and all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Alessandro Summer , Cecilia Chiaracane , Mark T. Mitchison , John Goold

Adiabatic quantum computation starts from embedding a computational problem into a Hamiltonian whose ground state encodes the solution to the problem. This problem Hamiltonian, $H_{\rm p}$, is normally chosen to be diagonal in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Oleg Lychkovskiy

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

Quantum machine learning (QML) is a discipline that seeks to transfer the advantages of quantum computing to data-driven tasks. However, many studies rely on toy datasets or heavy feature reduction, raising concerns about their scalability.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Federico Tiblias , Anna Schroeder , Yue Zhang , Mariami Gachechiladze , Iryna Gurevych

Quantum computing employs controllable interactions to perform sequences of logical gates and entire algorithms on quantum registers. This paradigm has been widely explored, e.g., for simulating dynamics of manybody systems by decomposing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 S. Alipour , A. T. Rezakhani , Alireza Tavanfar , K. Mölmer , T. Ala-Nissila

In this work, we consider a fundamental task in quantum many-body physics - finding and learning ground states of quantum Hamiltonians and their properties. Recent works have studied the task of predicting the ground state expectation value…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-16 Štěpán Šmíd , Roberto Bondesan

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

We study the local indistinguishability problem of quantum states. By introducing an easily calculated quantity, non-commutativity, we present an criterion which is both necessary and sufficient for the local indistinguishability of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-17 Teng Ma , Ming-Jing Zhao , Yao-Kun Wang , Shao-Ming Fei

In a variety of physically relevant settings for learning from quantum data, designing protocols that can computationally efficiently extract information remains largely an art, and there are important cases where we believe this to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Sitan Chen , Weiyuan Gong , Jonas Haferkamp , Yihui Quek

We consider a geometrization, i.e., we identify geometrical structures, for the space of density states of a quantum system. We also provide few comments on a possible application of this geometrization for composite systems.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. I. Man'ko , G. Marmo , E. C. G. Sudarshan , F. Zaccaria

We show that the two-dimensional (2D) local Hamiltonian problem with the constraint that the ground state obeys area laws is QMA-complete. We also prove similar results in 2D translation-invariant systems and for the 3D Heisenberg and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-03 Yichen Huang

In certain classes of physical quantum systems, the exponentially large state space "fragments" into many low-dimensional, dynamically disconnected subspaces. We introduce a learning problem known as fragment classification, where given a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Mikhail Mints , Eric R. Anschuetz