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The preparation of thermal equilibrium states is important for the simulation of condensed-matter and cosmology systems using a quantum computer. We present a method to prepare such mixed states with unitary operators, and demonstrate this…

Finite-temperature phases of many-body quantum systems are fundamental to phenomena ranging from condensed-matter physics to cosmology, yet they are generally difficult to simulate. Using an ion trap quantum computer and protocols motivated…

Solving finite-temperature properties of quantum many-body systems is generally challenging to classical computers due to their high computational complexities. In this article, we present experiments to demonstrate a hybrid…

The recent advancement of quantum computer hardware offers the potential to simulate quantum many-body systems beyond the capability of its classical counterparts. However, most current works focus on simulating the ground-state properties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Chee Kong Lee , Shi-Xin Zhang , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang , Liang Shi

The preparation of quantum Gibbs states at finite temperatures is a cornerstone of quantum computation, enabling applications in quantum simulation of many-body systems, machine learning via quantum Boltzmann machines, and optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Rui-Hao Li , Semeon Valgushev , Khadijeh Najafi

Preparation of quantum thermal states of many-body systems is a key computational challenge for quantum processors, with applications in physics, chemistry, and classical optimization. We provide a simple and efficient algorithm for thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Jerome Lloyd , Dmitry A. Abanin

In this paper we develop a quantum algorithm to realize finite temperature simulation on a quantum computer. As quantum computers use real-time evolution we did not use the imaginary time methods popular on classical algorithms. Instead, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-11 Raffaele Miceli , Michael McGuigan

Preparing ground states and thermal states is essential for simulating quantum systems on quantum computers. Despite the hope for practical quantum advantage in quantum simulation, popular state preparation approaches have been challenged.…

Thermofield dynamics (TFD) approach is a real time quantum field method for dealing with finite temperature quantum states in a purified version of usual density operator formalism at finite temperature. In the domain of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-13 T. Prudencio , T. M. Rocha Filho , A. E. Santana

Calculating the physical properties of quantum thermal states is a difficult problem for classical computers, rendering it intractable for most quantum many-body systems. A quantum computer, by contrast, would make many of these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-19 John Martyn , Brian Swingle

A major promise of quantum computers is the controlled preparation of many-body quantum states beyond the reach of efficient classical computation. Among the most important targets are thermal mixed states and their thermofield double (TFD)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Brian J. J. Khor , Nadie LiTenn , Martin Sasieta , Brian Swingle

In this work, we study the pairing Hamiltonian with four particles at finite temperatures on a quantum simulator and a superconducting quantum computer. The excited states are obtained by the variational quantum deflation (VQD). The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Chongji Jiang , Junchen Pei

Quantum computing has attracted the attention of the scientific community in the past few decades. However, despite some relevant advantages, near-term quantum devices remain severely limited by thermal effects, which induce decoherence and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 G. X. A. Petronilo , M. R. Araújo , A. B. M. Souza , Clebson Cruz

We provide an algorithm for preparing the thermofield double (TFD) state of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model without the need for an auxiliary bath. Following previous work, the TFD can be cast as the approximate ground state of a Hamiltonian,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-04 Vincent Paul Su

The preparation of Gibbs thermal states is an important task in quantum computation with applications in quantum simulation, quantum optimization, and quantum machine learning. However, many algorithms for preparing Gibbs states rely on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Ada Warren , Linghua Zhu , Nicholas J. Mayhall , Edwin Barnes , Sophia E. Economou

Preparation of Gibbs distributions is an important task for quantum computation. It is a necessary first step in some types of quantum simulations and further is essential for quantum algorithms such as quantum Boltzmann training. Despite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-04 Anirban N. Chowdhury , Guang Hao Low , Nathan Wiebe

The preparation of thermal states of matter is a crucial task in quantum simulation. In this work, we prove that a recently introduced, efficiently implementable dissipative evolution thermalizes to the Gibbs state in time scaling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Cambyse Rouzé , Daniel Stilck França , Álvaro M. Alhambra

Preparing the thermal density matrix $\rho_{\beta} \propto e^{-\beta H}$ corresponding to a given Hamiltonian $H$ is a task of central interest across quantum many-body physics, and is particularly salient when attempting to study it with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Dominik Hahn , S. A. Parameswaran , Benedikt Placke

We present a holographic quantum simulation algorithm to variationally prepare thermal states of $d$-dimensional interacting quantum many-body systems, using only enough hardware qubits to represent a ($d$-1)-dimensional cross-section. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-17 Yuxuan Zhang , Shahin Jahanbani , Daoheng Niu , Reza Haghshenas , Andrew C. Potter

We present an algorithm that prepares thermal Gibbs states of one dimensional quantum systems on a quantum computer without any memory overhead, and in a time significantly shorter than other known alternatives. Specifically, the time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-29 Ersen Bilgin , Sergio Boixo
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