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Hamiltonian Learning (HL) is essential for validating quantum systems in quantum computing. Not all Hamiltonians can be uniquely recovered from a steady state. HL success depends on the Hamiltonian model and steady state. Here, we analyze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Jing Zhou , D. L. Zhou

We introduce a simple protocol for measuring properties of a gapped ground state with essentially no disturbance to the state. The required Hamiltonian evolution time scales inversely with the spectral gap and target precision (up to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Chi-Fang Chen , Robbie King

We elaborate on the principle that for gapped quantum spin systems with local interaction "local perturbations [in the Hamiltonian] perturb locally [the ground state]". This principle was established in [Bachmann et al. 2012], relying on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Wojciech De Roeck , Marius Schütz

We study a new class of matrix models, formulated on a lattice. On each site are $N$ states with random energies governed by a Gaussian random matrix Hamiltonian. The states on different sites are coupled randomly. We calculate the density…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 E. Brézin , A. Zee

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

A group of non-uniform quantum lattice Hamiltonians in one dimension is introduced, which is related to the hyperbolic $1 + 1$-dimensional space. The Hamiltonians contain only nearest neighbor interactions whose strength is proportional to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-12 Hiroshi Ueda , Tomotoshi Nishino

We show that some gapped quantum many-body systems have a ground state degeneracy that is stable to long-range (e.g., power-law) perturbations, in the sense that any ground state energy splitting induced by such perturbations is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-09 Matthew F. Lapa , Michael Levin

For an anyon model in two spatial dimensions described by a modular tensor category, the topological S-matrix encodes the mutual braiding statistics, the quantum dimensions, and the fusion rules of anyons. It is nontrivial whether one can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-04 Jeongwan Haah

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 Hamiltonian formulation of lattice gauge theories plays a central role in quantum simulations of gauge theories, and understanding their spectrum and other properties is expected to become crucial in the upcoming years. The relevant…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-20 Thea Budde , Marina Kristć Marinković , Joao C. Pinto Barros

We show that a local Hamiltonian of spin-3/2 particles with only two-body nearest-neighbor Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki and exchange-type interactions has an unique ground state, which can be used to implement universal quantum computation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-14 Jianming Cai , Akimasa Miyake , Wolfgang Dür , Hans J. Briegel

A broad range of quantum optimisation problems can be phrased as the question whether a specific system has a ground state at zero energy, i.e.\ whether its Hamiltonian is frustration free. Frustration-free Hamiltonians, in turn, play a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-12 Or Sattath , Siddhardh C. Morampudi , Christopher R. Laumann , Roderich Moessner

We define for quantum many-body systems a quasi-adiabatic continuation of quantum states. The continuation is valid when the Hamiltonian has a gap, or else has a sufficiently small low-energy density of states, and thus is away from a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 M. B. Hastings , Xiao-Gang Wen

By using a recently proposed probabilistic approach, we determine the exact ground state of a class of matrix Hamiltonian models characterized by the fact that in the thermodynamic limit the multiplicities of the potential values assumed by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Massimo Ostilli , Carlo Presilla

The framework of measurement-based quantum computation (MBQC) allows us to view the ground states of local Hamiltonians as potential resources for universal quantum computation. A central goal in this field is to find models with ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-11 Andrew S. Darmawan , Stephen D. Bartlett

The spectral statistics and entanglement within the eigenstates of generic spin chain Hamiltonians are analysed. A class of random matrix ensembles is defined which include the most general nearest-neighbour qubit chain Hamiltonians. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-08 Huw J Wells

We consider a ground state (soliton) of a Hamiltonian PDE. We prove that if the soliton is orbitally stable, then it is also asymptotically stable. The main assumptions are transversal nondegeneracy of the manifold of the ground states,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-01-16 Dario Bambusi

We develop a new adiabatic theorem for unique gapped ground states which does not require the gap for local Hamiltonians. We instead require a gap in the bulk and a smoothness of expectation values of sub-exponentially localized observables…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-14 Alvin Moon , Yoshiko Ogata

We consider the problem of the explicit description of the gauge-invariant subspace of pure lattice gauge theories in the Hamiltonian formulation, where the gauge group is either a compact Lie group or a finite group. The latter case is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-02-27 A. Mariani

Topological band theory has been studied for free fermions for decades, and one of the most profound physical results is the bulk-boundary correspondence. Recently a focus in topological physics is extending topological classification to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Liang Mao , Hui Zhai , Fan Yang