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We introduce a classical algorithm to approximate the free energy of local, translation-invariant, one-dimensional quantum systems in the thermodynamic limit of infinite chain size. While the ground state problem (i.e., the free energy at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi , Samuel O. Scalet

Computing excited-state properties of molecules and solids is considered one of the most important near-term applications of quantum computers. While many of the current excited-state quantum algorithms differ in circuit architecture,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros , Yuchen Wang , Samuel Warren , David A. Mazziotti

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is one of the most promising algorithms for low-lying eigenstates calculation on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers. Specifically, VQE has achieved great success for ground state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Hengzhun Chen , Yingzhou Li , Bichen Lu , Jianfeng Lu

Computing the excited states of a given Hamiltonian is computationally hard for large systems, but methods that do so using quantum computers scale tractably. This problem is equivalent to the PCA problem where we are interested in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 David Quiroga , Jason Han , Anastasios Kyrillidis

Utilizing quantum computer to investigate quantum chemistry is an important research field nowadays. In addition to the ground-state problems that have been widely studied, the determination of excited-states plays a crucial role in the…

Quantum-classical hybrid algorithms are emerging as promising candidates for near-term practical applications of quantum information processors in a wide variety of fields ranging from chemistry to physics and materials science. We report…

The calculation time for the energy of atoms and molecules scales exponentially with system size on a classical computer but polynomially using quantum algorithms. We demonstrate that such algorithms can be applied to problems of chemical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alán Aspuru-Guzik , Anthony D. Dutoi , Peter J. Love , Martin Head-Gordon

Quantum computers are a highly promising tool for efficiently simulating quantum many-body systems. The preparation of their eigenstates is of particular interest and can be addressed, e.g., by quantum phase estimation algorithms. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Xiaoyu Liu , Benjamin F. Schiffer , Jordi Tura

The rodeo algorithm is an efficient algorithm for eigenstate preparation and eigenvalue estimation for any observable on a quantum computer. This makes it a promising tool for studying the spectrum and structure of atomic nuclei as well as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Zhengrong Qian , Jacob Watkins , Gabriel Given , Joey Bonitati , Kenneth Choi , Dean Lee

We present quantum algorithms, for Hamiltonians of linear combinations of local unitary operators, for Hamiltonian matrix-vector products and for preconditioning with the inverse of shifted reduced Hamiltonian operator that contributes to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 Zhiyong Zhang

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE), a variational algorithm to obtain an approximated ground state of a given Hamiltonian, is an appealing application of near-term quantum computers. The original work [A. Peruzzo et al.; \textit{Nat.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Ken M Nakanishi , Kosuke Mitarai , Keisuke Fujii

We describe a new polynomial time quantum algorithm that uses the quantum fast fourier transform to find eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a Hamiltonian operator, and that can be applied in cases (commonly found in ab initio physics and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 Daniel S. Abrams , Seth Lloyd

We investigate the feasibility of early fault-tolerant quantum algorithms focusing on ground-state energy estimation problems. In particular, we examine the computation of the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the spectral measure…

An approximation method which combines the perturbation theory with the variational calculation is constructed for quantum mechanical problems. Using the anharmonic oscillator and the He atom as examples, we show that the present method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Sang Koo You , Kwang Joe Jeon , Chul Koo Kim , Kyun Nahm

Preparing low energy states is a central challenge in quantum computing and quantum complexity theory. Several known approaches to prepare low energy states often get stuck in suboptimal states, such as high energy eigenstates (or low…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Anurag Anshu

In this work, we consider a fundamental task in quantum many-body physics - finding and learning ground states of quantum Hamiltonians and their properties. Recent works have studied the task of predicting the ground state expectation value…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-16 Štěpán Šmíd , Roberto Bondesan

We demonstrate how linear differential operators could be emulated by a quantum processor, should one ever be built, using the Abrams-Lloyd algorithm. Given a linear differential operator of order 2S, acting on functions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Thomas Szkopek , Vwani Roychowdhury , Eli Yablonovitch , Daniel S. Abrams

Predicting observables in equilibrium states is a central yet notoriously hard question in quantum many-body systems. In the physically relevant thermodynamic limit, certain mathematical formulations of this task have even been shown to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi , Samuel O. Scalet

We introduce a hybrid high-order method for approximating the ground state of the nonlinear Gross--Pitaevskii eigenvalue problem. Optimal convergence rates are proved for the ground state approximation, as well as for the associated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Moritz Hauck , Yizhou Liang

Phase estimation, due to Kitaev [arXiv'95], is one of the most fundamental subroutines in quantum computing. In the basic scenario, one is given black-box access to a unitary $U$, and an eigenstate $\lvert \psi \rangle$ of $U$ with unknown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Nikhil S. Mande , Ronald de Wolf