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Preparing many body entangled states efficiently using available interactions is a challenging task. One solution may be to couple a system collectively with a probe that leaves residual entanglement in the system. We investigate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gavin K. Brennen

Conformal field theory has turned out to be a powerful tool to derive interesting lattice models with analytical ground states. Here, we investigate a class of critical, one-dimensional lattice models of fermions and hardcore bosons related…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-28 Dillip K. Nandy , N. S. Srivatsa , Anne E. B. Nielsen

Understanding the entanglement structure of local Hamiltonian ground spaces is a physically motivated problem, with applications ranging from tensor network design to quantum error-correcting codes. To this end, we study the complexity of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Sevag Gharibian , Jonas Kamminga

We investigate the entanglement in the ground state of systems comprising two and three qubits with random interactions. Since the Hamiltonians also contain deterministic one-body terms, by varying the interaction strength, one can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Paulo Freitas Gomes , Marcel Novaes , Fernando Parisio

We formulate a mixed-state analog of the NLTS conjecture [FH14] by asking whether there exist topologically-ordered systems for which the thermal Gibbs state for constant temperature is globally-entangled in the sense that it cannot even be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 Lior Eldar

We address the question of whether or not global entanglement of a quantum state can be inferred from local properties. Specifically, we are interested in genuinely multiparticle entangled states whose two-body marginals are all separable,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Marius Paraschiv , Nikolai Miklin , Tobias Moroder , Otfried Gühne

We begin by deriving bounds for the entanglement of a spin with an (adjacent and non-adjacent) interval of spins in an arbitrary pure Finitely Correlated States (FCS). The bounds we derive become exact in the case where one considers the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-31 Spyridon Michalakis

Topological quantum states cannot be created from product states with local quantum circuits of constant depth and are in this sense more entangled than topologically trivial states, but how entangled are they? Here we quantify the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Yichen Huang , Xie Chen

The question whether a given quantum state is a ground or thermal state of a few-body Hamiltonian can be used to characterize the complexity of the state and is important for possible experimental implementations. We provide methods to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-30 Felix Huber , Otfried Gühne

We present a simple quantum many-body system - a two-dimensional lattice of qubits with a Hamiltonian composed of nearest-neighbor two-body interactions - such that the ground state is a universal resource for quantum computation using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen D. Bartlett , Terry Rudolph

Contextuality, one of the strongest forms of quantum correlations, delineates the quantum world and the classical one. It has been shown recently that some quantum models, in the form of infinite one-dimensional translation-invariant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Kaiyan Yang , Yanzheng Zhu , Xiao Zeng , Zuoheng Zou , Man-Hong Yung , Zizhu Wang

We show that the Guided Local Hamiltonian problem for stoquastic Hamiltonians is (promise) BPP-hard. The Guided Local Hamiltonian problem extends the Local Hamiltonian problem by incorporating an additional input known as a guiding state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Gabriel Waite

We present a class of exactly solvable 2D models whose ground states violate conventional beliefs about entanglement scaling in quantum matter. These beliefs are (i) that area law entanglement scaling originates from local correlations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Shankar Balasubramanian , Ethan Lake , Soonwon Choi

We study the computational complexity of the Local Hamiltonian problem under the promise that its ground state is succinctly represented. We show that the Succinct State 2-Local Hamiltonian problem, for qubit Hamiltonians, is (promise)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Gabriel Waite , Karl Lin

The No Low-Energy Trivial States (NLTS) conjecture of Freedman and Hastings (Quantum Information and Computation 2014), which asserts the existence of local Hamiltonians whose low energy states cannot be generated by constant depth quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-26 Chinmay Nirkhe , Umesh Vazirani , Henry Yuen

We have found that for a wide range of two-qubit Hamiltonians the canonical-ensemble thermal state is entangled in two distinct temperature regions. In most cases the ground state is entangled; however we have also found an example where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dominic W. Berry , Mark R. Dowling

The relative entropy between two states is a key concept in quantum information theory and quantum field theory. In the setting of quantum field theory, its computation requires the handling of relative modular Hamiltonians, which are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Adriano Chialastri , Christoph Minz , Ko Sanders

We examine whether it is possible for one-dimensional translationally-invariant Hamiltonians to have ground states with a high degree of entanglement. We present a family of translationally invariant Hamiltonians {H_n} for the infinite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Sandy Irani

The general problem of finding the ground state energy of lattice Hamiltonians is known to be very hard, even for a quantum computer. We show here that this is the case even for translationally invariant systems. We also show that a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. G. H. Vollbrecht , J. I. Cirac

The study of ground state energies of local Hamiltonians has played a fundamental role in quantum complexity theory. In this paper, we take a new direction by introducing the physically motivated notion of "ground state connectivity" of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-08 Sevag Gharibian , Jamie Sikora