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Quantum General Relativity (QGR), sometimes called Loop Quantum Gravity, has matured over the past fifteen years to a mathematically rigorous candidate quantum field theory of the gravitational field. The features that distinguish it from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Thomas Thiemann

Adaptive quantum circuits, leveraging measurements and classical feedback, significantly expand the landscape of realizable quantum states compared to their non-adaptive counterparts, enabling the preparation of long-range entangled states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Guoding Liu , Junjie Chen , Xiongfeng Ma

We present a quantum-classical hybrid algorithm that simulates electronic structures of periodic systems such as ground states and quasiparticle band structures. By extending the unitary coupled cluster (UCC) theory to describe crystals in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Takeshi Sato , Yuya O. Nakagawa , Yu-ya Ohnishi , Wataru Mizukami

Circuit optimization is a fundamental task for practical applications of near-term quantum computers. In this work we address this challenge through the powerful lenses of tensor network theory. Our approach involves the full…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Matan Ben-Dov , Itai Arad , Emanuele G. Dalla Torre

The unitary dynamics of quantum systems can be modeled as a trajectory on a Riemannian manifold. This theoretical framework naturally yields a purely geometric interpretation of computational complexity for quantum algorithms, a notion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Alberto Acevedo , Antonio Falco

We compute the quantum circuit complexity of the evolution of scalar curvature perturbations on expanding backgrounds, using the language of squeezed vacuum states. In particular, we construct a simple cosmological model consisting of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-22 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Saurya Das , S. Shajidul Haque , Bret Underwood

We give a very concise review of the group field theory formalism for non-perturbative quantum gravity, a higher dimensional generalisation of matrix models. We motivate it as a simplicial and local realisation of the idea of 3rd…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-27 Daniele Oriti

We propose that holographic spacetimes can be regarded as collections of quantum circuits based on path-integrals. We relate a codimension one surface in a gravity dual to a quantum circuit given by a path-integration on that surface with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-26 Tadashi Takayanagi

For chaotic quantum dynamics modeled by random unitary circuits, we study the complexity of reduced density matrices of subsystems as a function of evolution time where the initial global state is a product pure state. The state complexity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Jeongwan Haah , Douglas Stanford

Determining the quantum circuit complexity of a unitary operation is closely related to the problem of finding minimal length paths in a particular curved geometry [Nielsen et al, Science 311, 1133-1135 (2006)]. This paper investigates many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark R. Dowling , Michael A. Nielsen

The kinematical setting of spherically symmetric quantum geometry, derived from the full theory of loop quantum gravity, is developed. This extends previous studies of homogeneous models to inhomogeneous ones where interesting field theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Bojowald

We propose a modification to Nielsen's circuit complexity for Hamiltonian simulation using the Suzuki-Trotter (ST) method, which provides a network like structure for the quantum circuit. This leads to an optimized gate counting linear in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-11 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Pratik Nandy , Aninda Sinha

Quantum computing is a promising technology that harnesses the peculiarities of quantum mechanics to deliver computational speedups for some problems that are intractable to solve on a classical computer. Current generation noisy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Daan Camps , Efekan Kökcü , Lindsay Bassman , Wibe A. de Jong , Alexander F. Kemper , Roel Van Beeumen

A link between canonical quantum gravity and fermionic quantum field theory is established in this paper. From a spectral triple construction which encodes the kinematics of quantum gravity semi-classical states are constructed which, in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-03 Johannes Aastrup , Jesper M. Grimstrup

The paper presents a computational study of the ground-state properties of a quantum nanomagnet possessing the shape of a finite two-legged ladder composed of 12 spins $S=1/2$. The system is described with isotropic quantum Heisenberg model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-03 K. Szałowski , P. Kowalewska

We reconsider the Rovelli-Smolin model of gravity coupled to the Klein-Gordon time field with an eye towards capturing the degrees of freedom of the scalar field lost in the framework in which time is deparametrized by the scalar field.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-03 Jerzy Lewandowski , Hanno Sahlmann

In the presence of chemical potential and temperature, we holographically study subregion complexity in a non-conformal quantum field theory with a critical point. We propose a new interpretation according to which the states, needing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-14 Mohammad Ali-Akbari , Mahsa Lezgi

We study the relation between quantum computational complexity and general relativity. The quantum computational complexity is proposed to be quantified by the shortest length of geodesic quantum curves. We examine the complexity/volume…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Xian-Hui Ge , Bin Wang

While quantum state tomography is notoriously hard, most states hold little interest to practically-minded tomographers. Given that states and unitaries appearing in Nature are of bounded gate complexity, it is natural to ask if efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Haimeng Zhao , Laura Lewis , Ishaan Kannan , Yihui Quek , Hsin-Yuan Huang , Matthias C. Caro

During the last 30 years, stimulated by the quest to build superconducting quantum processors, a theory of quantum electrical circuits has emerged and this theory goes under the name of circuit quantum electrodynamics or circuit-QED. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Alessandro Ciani , David P. DiVincenzo , Barbara M. Terhal