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Adiabatic quantum computing is a universal model for quantum computing whose implementation using a gate-based quantum computer requires depths that are unreachable in the early fault-tolerant era. To mitigate the limitations of near-term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Ioannis Kolotouros , Ioannis Petrongonas , Miloš Prokop , Petros Wallden

The quantum adiabatic algorithm is a Hamiltonian based quantum algorithm designed to find the minimum of a classical cost function whose domain has size N. We show that poor choices for the Hamiltonian can guarantee that the algorithm will…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-30 Edward Farhi , Jeffrey Goldstone , Sam Gutmann , Daniel Nagaj

Given a quantum Hamiltonian and its evolution time, the corresponding unitary evolution operator can be constructed in many different ways, corresponding to different trajectories between the desired end-points. A choice among these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-05 Apoorva Patel

Grover's algorithm is one of the most important quantum algorithms, which performs the task of searching an unsorted database without a priori probability. Recently the adiabatic evolution has been used to design and reproduce quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhaohui Wei , Mingsheng Ying

Counterdiabatic driving emerges as a valuable technique for implementing shortcuts to adiabaticity protocols, enhancing quantum technology applications. In this context, counterdiabatic quantum computing represents a new paradigm with the…

In optimal quantum-mechanical evolutions, motion can take place along paths of minimal length within an optimal time frame. Alternatively, optimal evolutions may occur along established paths without any waste of energy resources and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Carlo Cafaro , James Schneeloch

The propagation of errors severely compromises the reliability of quantum computations. The quantum adiabatic algorithm is a physically motivated method to prepare ground states of classical and quantum Hamiltonians. Here, we analyze the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Benjamin F. Schiffer , Adrian Franco Rubio , Rahul Trivedi , J. Ignacio Cirac

In this work we present an effective Hamiltonian description of the quantum dynamics of a generalized Lambda system undergoing adiabatic evolution. We assume the system to be initialized in the dark subspace and show that its holonomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 V. O. Shkolnikov , Guido Burkard

We consider a composite open quantum system consisting of a fast subsystem coupled to a slow one. Using the time-scale separation, we develop an adiabatic elimination technique to derive at any order the reduced model describing the slow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-11 Remi Azouit , Francesca Chittaro , Alain Sarlette , Pierre Rouchon

In a previous publication we proposed discrete global optimization as a method to train a strong binary classifier constructed as a thresholded sum over weak classifiers. Our motivation was to cast the training of a classifier into a format…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-07 Hartmut Neven , Vasil S. Denchev , Geordie Rose , William G. Macready

A condition on the Hamiltonian of a time-dependent quantum mechanical system is derived which, if satisfied, implies optimal adiabaticity (defined below). The condition is expressed in terms of the Hamiltonian and in terms of the evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-07 R. MacKenzie , M. Pineault , L. Renaud-Desjardins

The quantum adiabatic theorem ensures that a slowly changing system, initially prepared in its ground state, will evolve to its final ground state with arbitrary precision. As a first result this thesis extends the original theorem to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 Friederike Anna Dziemba

Adiabatic quantum computation is a paradigmatic model aiming to solve a computational problem by finding the many-body ground state encapsulating the solution. However, its use of an adiabatic evolution depending on the spectral gap of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Jaeyoon Cho

The adiabatic theorem states that when the time evolution of the Hamiltonian is "infinitely slow", a system, when started in the ground state, remains in the instantaneous ground state at all times. This, however, does not mean that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Raffaele Resta

A computation in adiabatic quantum computing is implemented by traversing a path of nondegenerate eigenstates of a continuous family of Hamiltonians. We introduce a method that traverses a discretized form of the path: At each step we apply…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-14 S. Boixo , E. Knill , R. D. Somma

Recently, several approaches to solving linear systems on a quantum computer have been formulated in terms of the quantum adiabatic theorem for a continuously varying Hamiltonian. Such approaches enabled near-linear scaling in the condition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Pedro C. S. Costa , Dong An , Yuval R. Sanders , Yuan Su , Ryan Babbush , Dominic W. Berry

At present, several models for quantum computation have been proposed. Adiabatic quantum computation scheme particularly offers this possibility and is based on a slow enough time evolution of the system, where no transitions take place. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-12 P. J. Salas Peralta

Quantum adiabatic evolutions find a broad range of applications in quantum physics and quantum technologies. The traditional form of the quantum adiabatic theorem limits the speed of adiabatic evolution by the minimum energy gaps of the…

Adiabatic evolution is a central paradigm in quantum physics. Digital simulations of adiabatic processes are generally viewed as costly, since algorithmic errors typically accumulate over the long evolution time, requiring exceptionally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Yangyu Lu , Yifei Huang , Dong An , Qi Zhao , Dingshun Lv , Xiao Yuan

According to the adiabatic theorem of quantum mechanics, a system initially in the ground state of a Hamiltonian remains in the ground state if one slowly changes the Hamiltonian. This can be used in principle to solve hard problems on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Etienne Granet , Henrik Dreyer