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Achieving fast, excitation-free quantum control is a vital challenge in modern quantum technologies. In many cases, shortcuts to adiabaticity enable fast adiabatic-like protocols, yet determining control parameters that satisfy practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Bo Xing , Jesús G. Parejo , Sofía Martínez-Garaot , Paola Cappellaro , Mikel Palmero

We show that distinct topological phases of the band structure of a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian can be classified with elements of the braid group. As the proof of principle, we consider the non-Hermitian evolution of the statistics of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-23 Jie Ren , N. A. Sinitsyn

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

High control in the preparation and manipulation of states is an experimental and theoretical important task in many quantum protocols. Shortcuts to adiabaticity methods allow to obtain desirable states of a adiabatic dynamics but in short…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Jonas F. G. Santos

We show how to perform universal Hamiltonian and adiabatic computing using a time-independent Hamiltonian on a 2D grid describing a system of hopping particles which string together and interact to perform the computation. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Seth Lloyd , Barbara Terhal

The system undergoes adiabatic evolution when its population in the instantaneous eigenbasis of its time-dependent Hamiltonian changes only negligibly. Realization of such dynamics requires slow-enough changes of the parameters of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Bogdan Damski

Non-semisimple extensions of the Ising anyon model developed in our previous work enable universal topological quantum computation via braiding alone, overcoming the Clifford-only limitation of semisimple theories. The non-semisimple theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Filippo Iulianelli , Sung Kim , Joshua Sussan , Aaron D. Lauda

The quantum adiabatic theorem incorporating the Berry phase phenomenon can be characterized as a factorization of the time evolution operator into a path-dependent geometric factor, a usual dynamical factor and a non-adiabatic factor that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-09-08 J. Chee

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

The propagation of errors severely compromises the reliability of quantum computations. The quantum adiabatic algorithm is a physically motivated method to prepare ground states of classical and quantum Hamiltonians. Here, we analyze the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Benjamin F. Schiffer , Adrian Franco Rubio , Rahul Trivedi , J. Ignacio Cirac

We present a detailed study of an adiabatic state preparation in an effective three-level quantum system. States can be prepared with high speed and fidelity by adding a counterdiabatic (CD) quantum control protocol. As a second step, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 L. Romanato , N. Eshaqi-Sani , L. Lepori , T. Kirova , E. Arimondo , S. Wimberger

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 fluctuations driven by non-stoquastic Hamiltonians have been conjectured to be an important and perhaps essential missing ingredient for achieving a quantum advantage with adiabatic optimization. We introduce a transformation that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Elizabeth Crosson , Tameem Albash , Itay Hen , A. P. Young

We derive the effective Hamiltonian for a quantum system constrained to a submanifold (the constraint manifold) of configuration space (the ambient space) in the asymptotic limit where the restoring forces tend to infinity. In contrast to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-02 Jakob Wachsmuth , Stefan Teufel

We propose a method to produce fast transitionless dynamics for finite-dimensional quantum systems without requiring additional Hamiltonian components not included in the initial control setup, remaining close to the true adiabatic path at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-09 Francesco Petiziol , Benjamin Dive , Florian Mintert , Sandro Wimberger

We demonstrate the possibility of (sub)exponential quantum speedup via a quantum algorithm that follows an adiabatic path of a gapped Hamiltonian with no sign problem. This strengthens the superpolynomial separation recently proved by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-20 András Gilyén , Umesh Vazirani

A typical goal of a quantum simulation is to find the energy levels and eigenstates of a given Hamiltonian. This can be realized by adiabatically varying the system control parameters to steer an initial eigenstate into the eigenstate of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Gian Salis , Nikolaj Moll , Marco Roth , Marc Ganzhorn , Stefan Filipp

We analyze propagation of quantum information along chiral Majorana edge states in two-dimensional topological materials. The use of edge states may facilitate the braiding operation, an important ingredient in topological quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Igor Timoshuk , Konstantin Tikhonov , Yuriy Makhlin

In this work, we show that Berry phase estimation admits a natural and universal adiabatic error-cancellation mechanism, making it a promising candidate for practical quantum computing before full fault tolerance. Combining finite-runtime…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Chusei Kiumi

Adiabatic quantum computing enables the preparation of many-body ground states. This is key for applications in chemistry, materials science, and beyond. Realisation poses major experimental challenges: Direct analog implementation requires…