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Quantum state tomography provides a fundamental framework for reconstructing quantum states. When the measurement data are not informationally complete, the observed statistics admit multiple compatible density matrices, making the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 V. A. Penas , M. Losada , D. Tielas , F. Holik

The image reconstruction of partially coherent light is interpreted as the quantum state reconstruction. The efficient method based on maximum-likelihood estimation is proposed to acquire information from registered intensity measurements…

Optics · Physics 2011-07-22 M. Jezek , Z. Hradil

Local Hamiltonians arise naturally in physical systems. Despite its seemingly `simple' local structure, exotic features such as nonlocal correlations and topological orders exhibit in eigenstates of these systems. Previous studies for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-30 Shi-Yao Hou , Ningping Cao , Sirui Lu , Yi Shen , Yiu-Tung Poon , Bei Zeng

We establish a connection between ground states of local quantum Hamiltonians and thermal states of classical spin systems. For any discrete classical statistical mechanical model in any spatial dimension, we find an associated quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-05 W. Dür , M. Van den Nest

The simulation of quantum systems is a task for which quantum computers are believed to give an exponential speedup as compared to classical ones. While ground states of one-dimensional systems can be efficiently approximated using Matrix…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Norbert Schuch , Michael M. Wolf , Karl Gerd H. Vollbrecht , J. Ignacio Cirac

We consider the following task: how for a given quantum state $\rho$ to find a grounded Hamiltonian $H$ satisfying the condition $\mathrm{Tr} H\rho\leq E_0<+\infty$ in such a way that the von Neumann entropy of the Gibbs state $\gamma_H(E)$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 M. E. Shirokov

The emergence of scanning probe and electron beam imaging techniques have allowed quantitative studies of atomic structure and minute details of electronic and vibrational structure on the level of individual atomic units. These microscopic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-22 Sai Mani Prudhvi Valleti , Lukas Vlcek , Maxim Ziatdinov , Rama K. Vasudevan , Sergei V. Kalinin

The quantum marginal problem consists in deciding whether a given set of marginal reductions is compatible with the existence of a global quantum state or not. In this work, we formulate the problem from the perspective of dynamical systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-29 Daniel Uzcátegui Contreras , Dardo Goyeneche

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for quantum simulation that can be run on near-term quantum hardware. A challenge in VQE -- as well as any other heuristic algorithm for finding ground states…

We show that it is possible to uniquely reconstruct a generic many-body local Hamiltonian from a single pair of initial and final states related by time evolution with the Hamiltonian. We then propose a practical version of the protocol…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Zhi Li , Liujun Zou , Timothy H. Hsieh

In some cases the state of a quantum system with a large number of subsystems can be approximated efficiently by the density matrix renormalization group, which makes use of redundancies in the description of the state. Here we show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-02-03 Michael J. Hartmann , Javier Prior , Stephen R. Clark , Martin B. Plenio

An experiment is performed to reconstruct an unknown photonic quantum state with a limited amount of copies. A semi-quantum reinforcement learning approach is employed to adapt one qubit state, an "agent," to an unknown quantum state, an…

Generating large, non-trivial quantum chemistry test problems with known ground-state solutions remains a core challenge for benchmarking electronic structure methods. Inspired by planted-solution techniques from combinatorial optimization,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Linjun Wang , Joshua T. Cantin , Smik Patel , Ignacio Loaiza , Rick Huang , Artur F. Izmaylov

We establish a procedure to find the extremal density matrices for any finite Hamiltonian of a qudit system. These extremal density matrices provide an approximate description of the energy spectra of the Hamiltonian. In the case of…

In quantum information geometry, the curvature of von-Neumann entropy and relative entropy induce a natural metric on the space of mixed quantum states. Here we use this information metric to construct a random matrix ensemble for states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Harry J. D. Miller

The fact that the quantum relative entropy is non-increasing with respect to quantum physical evolutions lies at the core of many optimality theorems in quantum information theory and has applications in other areas of physics. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-24 Mark M. Wilde

Computing ground states of local Hamiltonians is a fundamental problem in condensed matter physics. We give the first randomized polynomial-time algorithm for finding ground states of gapped one-dimensional Hamiltonians: it outputs an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-22 Zeph Landau , Umesh Vazirani , Thomas Vidick

In this work, we report on a novel quantum state reconstruction process based on the disentanglement algorithm. Using variational quantum circuits, we disentangle the quantum state to a product of computational zero states. Inverse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Juan Yao

Understanding extreme non-locality in many-body quantum systems can help resolve questions in thermostatistics and laser physics. The existence of symmetry selection rules for Hamiltonians with non-decaying terms on infinite-size lattices…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-01 S. N. Saadatmand

Preparing the ground state of a given Hamiltonian and estimating its ground energy are important but computationally hard tasks. However, given some additional information, these problems can be solved efficiently on a quantum computer. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-16 Lin Lin , Yu Tong