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Quantum computing promises to efficiently and accurately solve many important problems in quantum chemistry which elude classical solvers, such as the electronic structure problem of highly correlated materials. Two leading methods in…

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We give a careful proof that a parallelized version of adiabatic quantum computation can efficiently simulate universal gate model quantum computation. The proof specifies an explicit parameter-dependent Hamiltonian $H({\lambda})$ that is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Ari Mizel

We propose analog counterdiabatic quantum computing (ACQC) to tackle combinatorial optimization problems on neutral-atom quantum processors. While these devices allow for the use of hundreds of qubits, adiabatic quantum computing struggles…

Implementation of quantum logical gates for multilevel system is demonstrated through decoherence control under the quantum adiabatic method using simple phase modulated laser pulses. We make use of selective population inversion and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Debabrata Goswami

A computational model of adiabatic evolutionary quantum system (or AEQS, pronounced "eeh-ks") was introduced in [Yamakami,2022] as a sort of quantum annealing and its underlying input-driven Hamiltonians are generated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Tomoyuki Yamakami

Quantum annealing is guaranteed to find the ground state of optimization problems in the adiabatic limit. Recent work [Phys. Rev. X 6, 031010 (2016)] has found that for some barrier tunneling problems, quantum annealing can be run much…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Lucas T. Brady , Wim van Dam

We consider the linearization problem associated with the quadratic traveling salesman problem (QTSP). Necessary and sufficient conditions are given for a cost matrix $Q$ of QTSP to be linearizable. It is shown that these conditions can be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Abraham P. Punnen , Matthias Walter , Brad D. Woods

Consider a path of non-degenerate eigenstates of unitary operators or Hamiltonians with minimum eigenvalue gap G. The eigenpath traversal problem is to transform one or more copies of the initial to the final eigenstate. Solutions to this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 S. Boixo , E. Knill , R. D. Somma

A method is presented to transfer a system of two-level atoms from a spin coherent state to a maximally spin squeezed Dicke state, relevant for quantum metrology and quantum information processing. The initial state is the ground state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Tomáš Opatrný , Hamed Saberi , Etienne Brion , Klaus Mølmer

Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms can help mitigating the physical limitations of current quantum devices, particularly the low qubit count and the reduced topological connectivity. In this paper, we propose a hybrid technique to solve a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Siwei Hu , Victor Lopata , Salvatore Sinno , Shruthi Thuravakkath , Paolo Zuliani

We study the statistical mechanics of a class of problems whose phase space is the set of permutations of an ensemble of quenched random positions. Specific examples analyzed are the finite temperature traveling salesman problem on several…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 David S. Dean , David Lancaster , Satya. N. Majumdar

We present novel path-slicing strategies integrated with quantum local search to optimize solutions for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), addressing the limitations of current Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) technologies. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-19 Chen-Yu Liu , Hiromichi Matsuyama , Wei-hao Huang , Yu Yamashiro

A major challenge facing adiabatic quantum computing is that algorithm design and error correction can be difficult for adiabatic quantum computing. Recent work has considered addressing his challenge by using coherently controlled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Maria Kieferova , Nathan Wiebe

Quantum computation by adiabatic evolution, as described in quant-ph/0001106, will solve satisfiability problems if the running time is long enough. In certain special cases (that are classically easy) we know that the quantum algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edward Farhi , Jeffrey Goldstone , Sam Gutmann

Adiabatic quantum optimization is a procedure to solve a vast class of optimization problems by slowly changing the Hamiltonian of a quantum system. The evolution time necessary for the algorithm to be successful scales inversely with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Salvatore Mandrà , Gian Giacomo Guerreschi , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Among various algorithms designed to exploit the specific properties of quantum computers with respect to classical ones, the quantum adiabatic algorithm is a versatile proposition to find the minimal value of an arbitrary cost function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-01-29 Victor Bapst , Laura Foini , Florent Krzakala , Guilhem Semerjian , Francesco Zamponi

We show how to apply the quantum adiabatic algorithm directly to the quantum computation of molecular properties. We describe a procedure to map electronic structure Hamiltonians to 2-local qubit Hamiltonians with a small set of physically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-20 Ryan Babbush , Peter J. Love , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

A general time-dependent quantum system can be driven fast from its initial ground state to its final ground state without generating transitions by adding a steering term to the Hamiltonian. We show how this technique can be modified to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 A. Barış Özgüler , Robert Joynt , Maxim G. Vavilov

We present a technique that dramatically improves the accuracy of adiabatic state transfer for a broad class of realistic Hamiltonians. For some systems, the total error scaling can be quadratically reduced at a fixed maximum transfer rate.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 Nathan Wiebe , Nathan S. Babcock

Adiabatic quantum programming defines the time-dependent mapping of a quantum algorithm into an underlying hardware or logical fabric. An essential step is embedding problem-specific information into the quantum logical fabric. We present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-08 Christine Klymko , Blair D. Sullivan , Travis S. Humble