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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-14 Arieh Iserles , Marcus Webb

The computational cost of quantum algorithms for physics and chemistry is closely linked to the spectrum of the Hamiltonian, a property that manifests in the necessary rescaling of its eigenvalues. The typical approach of using the 1-norm…

We present an algorithm for systematic encoding of Hermitian codes. For a Hermitian code defined over GF(q^2), the proposed algorithm achieves a run time complexity of O(q^2) and is suitable for VLSI implementation. The encoder architecture…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Rachit Agarwal , Ralf Koetter , Emanuel Popovici

We previously proposed a mechanism to effectively obtain, after a long time development, a Hamiltonian being Hermitian with regard to a modified inner product $I_Q$ that makes a given non-normal Hamiltonian normal by using an appropriately…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-24 Keiichi Nagao , Holger Bech Nielsen

We give a quantum logspace algorithm for powering contraction matrices, that is, matrices with spectral norm at most~1. The algorithm gets as an input an arbitrary $n\times n$ contraction matrix $A$, and a parameter $T \leq…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Uma Girish , Ran Raz , Wei Zhan

The efficient implementation of matrix arithmetic operations underpins the speedups of many quantum algorithms. We develop a suite of methods to perform matrix arithmetics -- with the result encoded in the off-diagonal blocks of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Christopher Kang , Yuan Su

Estimating the eigenvalues of non-normal matrices is a foundational problem with far-reaching implications, from modeling non-Hermitian quantum systems to analyzing complex fluid dynamics. Yet, this task remains beyond the reach of standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Yukun Zhang , Yusen Wu , Xiao Yuan

Sparse non-Hermitian random matrices arise in the study of disordered physical systems with asymmetric local interactions, and have applications ranging from neural networks to ecosystem dynamics. The spectral characteristics of these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-21 Fernando Lucas Metz , Izaak Neri , Tim Rogers

Computing the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of a perturbed matrix can be remarkably difficult when the unperturbed matrix has repeated eigenvalues. In this work we show how the limiting eigenvectors and eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Konstantin Usevich , Simon Barthelme

We study the differential structure of the set of real logarithms of a non-singular real matrix, under the assumption that the matrix is either semi-simple or orthogonal.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Donato Pertici

We discuss how to resolve generic skew-symmetric and generic symmetric determinantal singularities. The key ingredients are (skew-) symmetry preserving matrix operations in order to deduce an inductive argument.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Sabrina Alexandra Gaube , Bernd Schober

Non-Hermitian random matrices with symplectic symmetry provide examples for Pfaffian point processes in the complex plane. These point processes are characterised by a matrix valued kernel of skew-orthogonal polynomials. We develop their…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Gernot Akemann , Markus Ebke , Iván Parra

Quantum algorithms have been developed for efficiently solving linear algebra tasks. However, they generally require deep circuits and hence universal fault-tolerant quantum computers. In this work, we propose variational algorithms for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Xiaosi Xu , Jinzhao Sun , Suguru Endo , Ying Li , Simon C. Benjamin , Xiao Yuan

We investigate the spectral statistics of Hermitian matrices in which the elements are chosen uniformly from U (1), called the uni-modular ensemble (UME), in the limit of large matrix size. Using three complimentary methods; a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Christopher H. Joyner , Uzy Smilansky , Hans A. Weidenmüller

Since the popularization of the Stiefel manifold for numerical applications in 1998 in a seminal paper from Edelman et al., it has been exhibited to be a key to solve many problems from optimization, statistics and machine learning. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Simon Mataigne , Ralf Zimmermann , Nina Miolane

We equip the complex polynomial algebra C[t] with the involution which is the identity on C and sends t to -t. Answering a question raised by V.G. Kac, we show that every hermitian or skew-hermitian matrix over this algebra is congruent to…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2009-03-18 D. Z. Djokovic , F. Szechtman

In this paper we use some basic facts from the theory of (matrix) Lie groups and algebras to show that many of the classical matrix splittings used to construct stationary iterative methods and preconditioniers for Krylov subspace methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Michele Benzi , Milo Viviani

The logarithm-determinant is an widely-present operation in many areas of physics and computer science. Derivatives of the logarithm-determinant compute physically relevant quantities in statistical physics models, quantum field theories,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Thomas E. Baker , Jaimie A. Greasley

Implementing polynomial functions of Hermitian matrices on quantum hardware is a foundational task in quantum computing, critical for accurate Hamiltonian simulation, quantum linear system solving, high-fidelity state preparation, machine…

In a previous paper (arXiv:math-ph/0604055) we introduced a very simple PT-symmetric non-Hermitian Hamiltonian with real spectrum and derived a closed formula for the metric operator relating the problem to a Hermitian one. In this note we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Krejcirik