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Adiabatic quantum algorithms must evolve slowly enough to suppress non-adiabatic transitions while remaining fast enough to be practical. In open systems, this trade-off is reshaped by decoherence. For Hamiltonians subject to dephasing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Afaf El Kalai , Peter J. Eder , Christian B. Mendl

Adiabatic passage employs a slowly varying time-dependent Hamiltonian to control the evolution of a quantum system along the Hamiltonian eigenstates. For processes of finite duration, the exact time evolving state may deviate from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-18 Albert Benseny , Klaus Mølmer

We develop a unified quantum geometric framework to understand reactive quantum dynamics. The critical roles of the quantum geometry of adiabatic electronic states in both adiabatic and non-adiabatic quantum dynamics are unveiled. A…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 Yujuan Xie , Ruoxi Liu , Bing Gu

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

Computing using a continuous-time evolution, based on the natural interaction Hamiltonian of the quantum computer hardware, is a promising route to building useful quantum computers in the near-term. Adiabatic quantum computing, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 James G. Morley , Nicholas Chancellor , Sougato Bose , Viv Kendon

Quantum algorithms are of great interest for their possible use in optimization problems. In particular, variational algorithms that use classical counterparts to optimize parameters hold promise for use in currently existing devices.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Bruno Oziel Fernandez , Rodrigo Bloot , Marcelo Moret

We study the fault tolerance of quantum computation by adiabatic evolution, a quantum algorithm for solving various combinatorial search problems. We describe an inherent robustness of adiabatic computation against two kinds of errors,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew M. Childs , Edward Farhi , John Preskill

Quantum adiabatic algorithm is a method of solving computational problems by evolving the ground state of a slowly varying Hamiltonian. The technique uses evolution of the ground state of a slowly varying Hamiltonian to reach the required…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Avik Mitra , Arindam Ghosh , Ranabir Das , Apoorva Patel , Anil Kumar

Quantum computation offers potential exponential speedups for simulating certain physical systems, but its application to nonlinear dynamics is inherently constrained by the requirement of unitary evolution. We propose the quantum Koopman…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Baoyang Zhang , Zhen Lu , Yaomin Zhao , Yue Yang

The two main approaches to quantum computing are gate-based computation and analog computation, which are polynomially equivalent in terms of complexity, and they are often seen as alternatives to each other. In this work, we present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Matteo Robbiati , Juan M. Cruz-Martinez , Stefano Carrazza

We develop an approach to machine learning and anomaly detection via quantum adiabatic evolution. In the training phase we identify an optimal set of weak classifiers, to form a single strong classifier. In the testing phase we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-14 Kristen L. Pudenz , Daniel A. Lidar

Adiabatic transport provides a powerful way to manipulate quantum states. By preparing a system in a readily initialised state and then slowly changing its Hamiltonian, one may achieve quantum states that would otherwise be inaccessible.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-13 P. J. D. Crowley , T. Duric , W. Vinci , P. A. Warburton , A. G. Green

On-the-fly quantum nonadiabatic dynamics for large systems greatly benefits from the adiabatic representation readily available from the electronic structure programs. However, frequently occurring in this representation conical…

In this review we consider the performance of the quantum adiabatic algorithm for the solution of decision problems. We divide the possible failure mechanisms into two sets: small gaps due to quantum phase transitions and small gaps due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 C. R. Laumann , R. Moessner , A. Scardicchio , S. L. Sondhi

We report the realization of a nuclear magnetic resonance computer with three quantum bits that simulates an adiabatic quantum optimization algorithm. Adiabatic quantum algorithms offer new insight into how quantum resources can be used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Steffen , Wim van Dam , Tad Hogg , Greg Breyta , Isaac Chuang

Adiabatic quantum computing is a general framework for preparing eigenstates of Hamiltonians on quantum devices. However, its digital implementation requires an efficient Hamiltonian simulation subroutine, which may introduce extra…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Dong An , Pedro C. S. Costa , Dominic W. Berry

We present a perturbative method to estimate the spectral gap for adiabatic quantum optimization, based on the structure of the energy levels in the problem Hamiltonian. We show that for problems that have exponentially large number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. H. S. Amin

We introduce an adiabatic state preparation protocol which implements quantum imaginary time evolution under the Hamiltonian of the system. Unlike the original quantum imaginary time evolution algorithm, adiabatic quantum imaginary time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Kasra Hejazi , Mario Motta , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Quantum adiabatic evolution provides a general technique for the solution of combinatorial search problems on quantum computers. We present the results of a numerical study of a particular application of quantum adiabatic evolution, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 Andrew M. Childs , Edward Farhi , Jeffrey Goldstone , Sam Gutmann