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Adiabaticity of quantum evolution is important in many settings. One example is the adiabatic quantum computation. Nevertheless, up to now, there is no effective method to test the adiabaticity of the evolution when the eigenenergies of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-08 H. T. Quan , W. H. Zurek

The ability to efficiently prepare ground states of quantum Hamiltonians via adiabatic protocols is typically limited by the smallest energy gap encountered during the quantum evolution. This presents a key obstacle for quantum simulation…

It is believed that the presence of anticrossings with exponentially small gaps between the lowest two energy levels of the system Hamiltonian, can render adiabatic quantum optimization inefficient. Here, we present a simple adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Neil G. Dickson , Mohammad H. Amin

Transitionless quantum driving, also known as counterdiabatic driving, is a unique shortcut technique to adiabaticity, enabling a fast-forward evolution to the same target quantum states as those in the adiabatic case. However, as nothing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Zhen-Yu Xu , Wen-Long You , Yu-Li Dong , Chengjie Zhang , W. L. Yang

In quantum adiabatic evolution algorithms, the quantum computer follows the ground state of a slowly varying Hamiltonian. The ground state of the initial Hamiltonian is easy to construct; the ground state of the final Hamiltonian encodes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edward Farhi , Jeffrey Goldstone , Sam Gutmann

Achieving effectively adiabatic dynamics is a ubiquitous goal in almost all areas of quantum physics. Here, we study the speed with which a quantum system can be driven when employing transitionless quantum driving. As a main result, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Steve Campbell , Sebastian Deffner

Adiabatic time evolution of quantum systems is a widely used tool with applications ranging from state preparation through simplifications of computations and topological transformations to optimization and quantum computing. Adiabatic time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 Hadi Yarloo , Hua-Chen Zhang , Anne E. B. Nielsen

We present two quantum algorithms based on evolution randomization, a simple variant of adiabatic quantum computing, to prepare a quantum state $\vert x \rangle$ that is proportional to the solution of the system of linear equations $A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Yigit Subasi , Rolando D. Somma , Davide Orsucci

We analyze the ground state entanglement in a quantum adiabatic evolution algorithm designed to solve the NP-complete Exact Cover problem. The entropy of entanglement seems to obey linear and universal scaling at the point where the mass…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jose Ignacio Latorre , Roman Orus

Adiabatic quantum algorithms must evolve slowly enough to suppress non-adiabatic transitions while remaining fast enough to be practical. In open systems, this trade-off is reshaped by decoherence. For Hamiltonians subject to dephasing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Afaf El Kalai , Peter J. Eder , Christian B. Mendl

We analyze the complexity of the quantum optimization algorithm based on adiabatic evolution for the set partition problem. We introduce a cost function defined on a logarithmic scale of the partition residues so that the total number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Smelyanskiy , U. V. Toussaint , D. A. Timucin

Perturbed Hamming weight problems serve as examples of optimization instances for which the adiabatic algorithm provably out performs classical simulated annealing. In this work we study the efficiency of the adiabatic algorithm for solving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-24 Linghang Kong , Elizabeth Crosson

At present, several models for quantum computation have been proposed. Adiabatic quantum computation scheme particularly offers this possibility and is based on a slow enough time evolution of the system, where no transitions take place. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-12 P. J. Salas Peralta

Quantum adiabatic dynamics is the crucial element of adiabatic quantum computing and quantum annealing. Shortcuts to adiabaticity enable acceleration of the computational time by suppressing unwanted non-adiabatic processes with designed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Emma C. King , Giovanna Morigi , Raphaël Menu

We use local adiabatic evolution to experimentally create and determine the ground state spin ordering of a fully-connected Ising model with up to 14 spins. Local adiabatic evolution -- in which the system evolution rate is a function of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-02 Philip Richerme , Crystal Senko , Jacob Smith , Aaron Lee , Simcha Korenblit , Christopher Monroe

A major drawback of adiabatic quantum computing (AQC) is fulfilling the energy gap constraint, which requires the total evolution time to scale inversely with the square of the minimum energy gap. Failure to satisfy this condition violates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Thi Ha Kyaw , Guillermo Romero , Gaurav Saxena

The approach of shortcuts to adiabaticity enables the effective execution of adiabatic dynamics in quantum information processing with enhanced speed. Owing to the inherent trade-off between dynamical speed and the cost associated with the…

Adiabatic quantum computing has demonstrated how quantum Zeno can be used to construct quantum optimisers. However, much less work has been done to understand how more general Zeno effects could be used in a similar setting. We use a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Jesse Berwald , Nicholas Chancellor , Raouf Dridi

We propose a method to speed up the quantum adiabatic algorithm using catalysis by many-body delocalization. This is applied to random-field antiferromagnetic Ising spin models. The algorithm is catalyzed in such a way that the evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-06 Chenfeng Cao , Jian Xue , Nic Shannon , Robert Joynt

Despite its simplicity and strong theoretical guarantees, adiabatic state preparation has received considerably less interest than variational approaches for the preparation of low-energy electronic structure states. Two major reasons for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Etienne Granet , Khaldoon Ghanem , Henrik Dreyer