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We present a deterministic algorithm that given any directed graph on n vertices computes the parity of its number of Hamiltonian cycles in O(1.619^n) time and polynomial space. For bipartite graphs, we give a 1.5^n poly(n) expected time…

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Solving the ground state and the ground-state properties of quantum many-body systems is generically a hard task for classical algorithms. For a family of Hamiltonians defined on an $m$-dimensional space of physical parameters, the ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Yanming Che , Clemens Gneiting , Franco Nori

We present quantum algorithms for solving two problems regarding stochastic processes. The first algorithm prepares the thermal Gibbs state of a quantum system and runs in time almost linear in $\sqrt{N \beta/{\cal Z}}$ and polynomial in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Anirban Narayan Chowdhury , Rolando D. Somma

We consider the task of simulating time evolution under a Hamiltonian $H$ within its low-energy subspace. Assuming access to a block-encoding of $H'=(H-E)/\lambda$ for some $E \in \mathbb R$, the goal is to implement an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Alexander Zlokapa , Rolando D. Somma

We give a {\em deterministic} algorithm for approximately computing the fraction of Boolean assignments that satisfy a degree-$2$ polynomial threshold function. Given a degree-2 input polynomial $p(x_1,\dots,x_n)$ and a parameter $\eps >…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-11-28 Anindya De , Ilias Diakonikolas , Rocco A. Servedio

Harrow, Hassidim, and Lloyd showed that for a suitably specified $N \times N$ matrix $A$ and $N$-dimensional vector $\vec{b}$, there is a quantum algorithm that outputs a quantum state proportional to the solution of the linear system of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 Andrew M. Childs , Robin Kothari , Rolando D. Somma

We derive in this study a Hamiltonian to solve with certainty the analog quantum search problem analogue to the Grover algorithm. The general form of the initial state is considered. Since the evaluation of the measuring time for finding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jin-Yuan Hsieh , Che-Ming Li , Der-San Chuu

Counting ground state degeneracy of a $k$-local Hamiltonian is important in many fields of physics. Its complexity belongs to the problem of sharp bounded-error quantum polynomial time (#BQP) class and few methods are known for its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Zhen Guo , Li You

Characterizing the entanglement structure of ground states of local Hamiltonians is a fundamental problem in quantum information. In this work we study the computational complexity of this problem, given the Hamiltonian as input. Our main…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Adam Bouland , Chenyi Zhang , Zixin Zhou

An exact invariant is derived for $n$-degree-of-freedom Hamiltonian systems with general time-dependent potentials. The invariant is worked out in two equivalent ways. In the first approach, we define a special {\it Ansatz\/} for the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 Jürgen Struckmeier , Claus Riedel

A Dynamic Programming based polynomial worst case time and space algorithm is described for computing Hamiltonian Path of a directed graph. Complexity constructive proofs along with a tested C++ implementation are provided as well. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-16 Dmitriy Nuriyev

We present an algorithm that computes the geodesic center of a given polygonal domain. The running time of our algorithm is $O(n^{12+\epsilon})$ for any $\epsilon>0$, where $n$ is the number of corners of the input polygonal domain. Prior…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Sang Won Bae , Matias Korman , Yoshio Okamoto

Here we present a problem related to the local Hamiltonian problem (identifying whether the ground state energy falls within one of two ranges) which is restricted to being translationally invariant. We prove that for problems with a fixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Alastair Kay

We give a new proof for the area law for general 1D gapped systems, which exponentially improves Hastings' famous result \cite{ref:Has07}. Specifically, we show that for a chain of d-dimensional spins, governed by a 1D local Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-08 Itai Arad , Alexei Kitaev , Zeph Landau , Umesh Vazirani

In this paper we consider finite-dimensional constrained Hamiltonian systems of polynomial type. In order to compute the complete set of constraints and separate them into the first and second classes we apply the modern algorithmic methods…

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A subalgebraic approximation algorithm is proposed to estimate from a set of time series the parameters of the observer representation of a discrete-time polynomial system without inputs which can generate an approximation of the observed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-09 Jana Němcová , Mihály Petreczky , Jan H. van Schuppen

We present a cooling algorithm for ground state preparation of fermionic Hamiltonians. Our algorithm makes use of the Hamiltonian simulation of the considered system coupled to an ancillary fridge, which is regularly reset to its known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Lucas Marti , Refik Mansuroglu , Michael J. Hartmann

For several computational problems in homotopy theory, we obtain algorithms with running time polynomial in the input size. In particular, for every fixed k>1, there is a polynomial-time algorithm that, for a 1-connected topological space X…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-05-29 Martin Cadek , Marek Krcal , Jiri Matousek , Lukas Vokrinek , Uli Wagner

Finding the ground state of a Hamiltonian system is of great significance in many-body quantum physics and quantum chemistry. We propose an improved iterative quantum algorithm to prepare the ground state of a Hamiltonian. The crucial point…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Jin-Min Liang , Qiao-Qiao Lv , Shu-Qian Shen , Ming Li , Zhi-Xi Wang , Shao-Ming Fei

We give a deterministic, polynomial-time algorithm for approximately counting the number of {0,1}-solutions to any instance of the knapsack problem. On an instance of length n with total weight W and accuracy parameter eps, our algorithm…

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