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This paper introduces a novel method for approximating the dynamics of a large autonomous system projected onto a fixed subspace. The core contribution is a novel recursive algorithm to construct an effective time-dependent generator that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Tommaso Grigoletto

In this paper we show a new way of constructing deterministic polynomial-time approximation algorithms for computing complex-valued evaluations of a large class of graph polynomials on bounded degree graphs. In particular, our approach…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-11 Viresh Patel , Guus Regts

The computational cost of exact methods for quantum simulation using classical computers grows exponentially with system size. As a consequence, these techniques can only be applied to small systems. By contrast, we demonstrate that quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-17 Ivan Kassal , Stephen P. Jordan , Peter J. Love , Masoud Mohseni , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

We show that the number of $k$-matching in a given undirected graph $G$ is equal to the number of perfect matching of the corresponding graph $G_k$ on an even number of vertices divided by a suitable factor. If $G$ is bipartite then one can…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Shmuel Friedland , Daniel Levy

The simulation of the physical movement of multi-body systems at an atomistic level, with forces calculated from a quantum mechanical description of the electrons, motivates a graph partitioning problem studied in this article. Several…

We establish an efficient approximation algorithm for the partition functions of a class of quantum spin systems at low temperature, which can be viewed as stable quantum perturbations of classical spin systems. Our algorithm is based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Tyler Helmuth , Ryan L. Mann

We present a method for classically simulating quantum circuits based on the tensor contraction model of Markov and Shi (quant-ph/0511069). Using this method we are able to classically simulate the approximate quantum Fourier transform in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nadav Yoran , Anthony J. Short

We exploit a recently constructed mapping between quantum circuits and graphs in order to prove that circuits corresponding to certain planar graphs can be efficiently simulated classically. The proof uses an expression for the Ising model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-28 J. Geraci , D. A. Lidar

In this work, we developed an efficient quantum algorithm for the simulation of non-Markovian quantum dynamics, based on the Feynman path integral formulation. The algorithm scales polynomially with the number of native gates and the number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Avin Seneviratne , Peter L. Walters , Fei Wang

We present a new approach to a classical problem in statistical physics: estimating the partition function and other thermodynamic quantities of the ferromagnetic Ising model. Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for this problem have been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-20 Amanda Streib , Noah Streib , Isabel Beichl , Francis Sullivan

We give algorithms for approximating the partition function of the ferromagnetic $q$-color Potts model on graphs of maximum degree $d$. Our primary contribution is a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme for $d$-regular graphs with an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Charlie Carlson , Ewan Davies , Nicolas Fraiman , Alexandra Kolla , Aditya Potukuchi , Corrine Yap

In this work, we present a compact analytical approximation for the quantum partition function of systems composed of quantum oscillators. The proposed formula is general and applicable to an arbitrary number of oscillators described by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-08 Michel Caffarel

We describe an algorithm that computes the ground state energy and correlation functions for 2-local Hamiltonians in which interactions between qubits are weak compared to single-qubit terms. The running time of the algorithm is polynomial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergey Bravyi , David DiVincenzo , Daniel Loss

A remarkable connection has been established for antiferromagnetic 2-spin systems, including the Ising and hard-core models, showing that the computational complexity of approximating the partition function for graphs with maximum degree D…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-11-05 Andreas Galanis , Daniel Stefankovic , Eric Vigoda

We consider the problem of approximating the partition function of the hard-core model on planar graphs of degree at most 4. We show that when the activity lambda is sufficiently large, there is no fully polynomial randomised approximation…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Leslie Ann Goldberg , Mark Jerrum , Colin McQuillan

We establish the average-case hardness of the algorithmic problem of exact computation of the partition function associated with the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model of spin glasses with Gaussian couplings and random external field. In…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-19 David Gamarnik , Eren Kizildag

We present a new family of zero-field Ising models over $N$ binary variables/spins obtained by consecutive "gluing" of planar and $O(1)$-sized components and subsets of at most three vertices into a tree. The polynomial-time algorithm of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Valerii Likhosherstov , Yury Maximov , Michael Chertkov

In light of recently proposed quantum algorithms that incorporate symmetries in the hope of quantum advantage, we show that with symmetries that are restrictive enough, classical algorithms can efficiently emulate their quantum counterparts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Eric R. Anschuetz , Andreas Bauer , Bobak T. Kiani , Seth Lloyd

In this paper, we present a quasi-polynomial time classical algorithm that estimates the partition function of quantum many-body systems at temperatures above the thermal phase transition point. It is known that in the worst case, the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-22 Aram Harrow , Saeed Mehraban , Mehdi Soleimanifar

In this paper we propose and realize (the code is publicly available at https://github.com/Thrawn1985/2D-Partition-Function) an algorithm for exact calculation of partition function for planar graph models with binary spins. The complexity…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-11-04 Yakov M. Karandashev , Magomed Yu. Malsagov