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Estimating the eigenvalue or energy gap of a Hamiltonian H is vital for studying quantum many-body systems. Particularly, many of the problems in quantum chemistry, condensed matter physics, and nuclear physics investigate the energy gap…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-22 Yongdan Yang , Ying Li , Xiaosi Xu , Xiao Yuan

We present an algorithm for reliably and systematically proving the existence of spectral gaps in Hamiltonians with quasicrystalline order, based on numerical calculations on finite domains. We apply this algorithm to prove that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Paul Hege , Massimo Moscolari , Stefan Teufel

The hidden subgroup problem~(HSP) is one of the most important problems in quantum computation. Many problems for which quantum algorithm achieves exponential speedup over its classical counterparts can be reduced to the Abelian HSP.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Hefeng Wang

Adiabatic quantum optimization is a procedure to solve a vast class of optimization problems by slowly changing the Hamiltonian of a quantum system. The evolution time necessary for the algorithm to be successful scales inversely with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Salvatore Mandrà , Gian Giacomo Guerreschi , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

The cost and the error of the adiabatic theorem for preparing the final eigenstate are discussed in terms of path length. Previous studies in terms of the norm of the Hamiltonian and its derivatives with the spectral gap are limited in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Thomas D. Cohen , Hyunwoo Oh

Accurate computation of multiple eigenvalues of quantum Hamiltonians is essential in quantum chemistry, materials science, and molecular spectroscopy. Estimating excited-state energies is challenging for classical algorithms due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Grzegorz Rajchel-Mieldzioć , Szymon Pliś , Emil Zak

Recent advances in analog and digital quantum-simulation platforms have enabled exploration of the spectrum of entanglement Hamiltonians via variational algorithms. In this work we analyze the convergence properties of the variationally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Yanick S. Kind , Benedikt Fauseweh

With qubits encoded into atomic ground and Rydberg states and situated on the vertexes of a graph, the conditional quantum dynamics of Rydberg blockade, which inhibits simultaneous excitation of nearby atoms, has been employed recently to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Xianjue Zhao , Peiyun Ge , Hongye Yu , Li You , Frank Wilczek , Biao Wu

Non-Hermitian physics has emerged as a rich field of study, with applications ranging from $PT$-symmetry breaking and skin effects to non-Hermitian topological phase transitions. Yet most studies remain restricted to small-scale or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Xiao-Ming Zhang , Yukun Zhang , Wenhao He , Xiao Yuan

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

Simulating quantum many-body systems is crucial for advancing physics but poses substantial challenges for classical computers. Quantum simulations overcome these limitations, with analog simulators offering unique advantages over digital…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-30 Rui-Cheng Guo , Yanwu Gu , Dong E. Liu

The derandomization of MA, the probabilistic version of NP, is a long standing open question. In this work, we connect this problem to a variant of another major problem: the quantum PCP conjecture. Our connection goes through the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-10 Dorit Aharonov , Alex B. Grilo

We study the long-time behaviour of the growth-fragmentation equation, a nonlocal linear evolution equation describing a wide range of phenomena in structured population dynamics. We show the existence of a spectral gap under conditions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-25 José A. Cañizo , Pierre Gabriel , Havva Yoldaş

A broad range of quantum optimisation problems can be phrased as the question whether a specific system has a ground state at zero energy, i.e.\ whether its Hamiltonian is frustration free. Frustration-free Hamiltonians, in turn, play a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-12 Or Sattath , Siddhardh C. Morampudi , Christopher R. Laumann , Roderich Moessner

The spectral gap problem - determining whether the energy spectrum of a system has an energy gap above ground state, or if there is a continuous range of low-energy excitations - pervades quantum many-body physics. Recently, this important…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Johannes Bausch , Toby Cubitt , Angelo Lucia , David Perez-Garcia

We show that a polynomial H(N) of degree N of a harmonic oscillator hamiltonian allows us to devise a fully solvable continuous quantum system for which the first N discrete energy eigenvalues can be chosen at will. In general such a choice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Ole Steuernagel , Andrei Klimov

We study the relation between the Ising problem Hamiltonian parameters and the minimum spectral gap (min-gap) of the system Hamiltonian in the Ising-based quantum annealer. The main argument we use in this paper to assess the performance of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-30 Vicky Choi

Many promising quantum applications depend on the efficient quantum simulation of an exponentially large sparse Hamiltonian, a task known as sparse Hamiltonian simulation, which is fundamentally important in quantum computation. Although…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Jiaqi Leng , Joseph Li , Yuxiang Peng , Xiaodi Wu

We present a bound on the length of the path defined by the ground states of a continuous family of Hamiltonians in terms of the spectral gap G. We use this bound to obtain a significant improvement over the cost of recently proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 Hao-Tien Chiang , Guanglei Xu , Rolando D. Somma

Quantum algorithms for diverse problems, including search and optimization problems, require the implementation of a reflection operator over a target state. Commonly, such reflections are approximately implemented using phase estimation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 Anirban Narayan Chowdhury , Yigit Subasi , Rolando D. Somma