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Preparing the Gibbs state of an interacting quantum many-body system on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices is a crucial task for exploring the thermodynamic properties in the quantum regime. It encompasses understanding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Mirko Consiglio

Quantum phase transitions materialize as level crossings in the ground-state energy when the parameters of the Hamiltonian are varied. The resulting ground-state phase diagrams are straightforward to determine by exact diagonalization on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 Akhil Francis , Ephrata Zelleke , Ziyue Zhang , Alexander F. Kemper , J. K. Freericks

We introduce a variational wavefunction for many-body ground states that involves imaginary time evolution with two different Hamiltonians in an alternating fashion with variable time intervals. We successfully apply the ansatz on the one-…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-25 Matthew J. S. Beach , Roger G. Melko , Tarun Grover , Timothy H. Hsieh

How well can quantum computers simulate classical dynamical systems? There is increasing effort in developing quantum algorithms to efficiently simulate dynamics beyond Hamiltonian simulation, but so far exact resource estimates are not…

Understanding quantum phase transitions in physical systems is fundamental to characterize their behavior at low temperatures. Achieving this requires both accessing good approximations to the ground state and identifying order parameters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Chenfeng Cao , Filippo Maria Gambetta , Ashley Montanaro , Raul A. Santos

We present a quantum algorithm for implementing $\phi^4$ lattice scalar field theory on qubit computers. The field is represented in the discretized field amplitude basis. The number of qubits and elementary gates required by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Andy C. Y. Li , Alexandru Macridin , Stephen Mrenna , Panagiotis Spentzouris

We introduce a quantum algorithm to efficiently prepare states with a small energy variance at the target energy. We achieve it by filtering a product state at the given energy with a Lorentzian filter of width $\delta$. Given a local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 Reinis Irmejs , Mari Carmen Bañuls , J. Ignacio Cirac

We address the question of how a quantum computer can be used to simulate experiments on quantum systems in thermal equilibrium. We present two approaches for the preparation of the equilibrium state on a quantum computer. For both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Barbara M. Terhal , David P. DiVincenzo

Ground-state preparation is an important task in quantum computation. The probabilistic imaginary-time evolution (PITE) method is a promising candidate for preparing the ground state of the Hamiltonian, which comprises a single ancilla…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Hirofumi Nishi , Koki Hamada , Yusuke Nishiya , Taichi Kosugi , Yu-ichiro Matsushita

We present classical and quantum algorithms for approximating partition functions of classical Hamiltonians at a given temperature. Our work has two main contributions: first, we modify the classical algorithm of \v{S}tefankovi\v{c},…

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

Classical simulation of real-space quantum dynamics is challenging due to the exponential scaling of computational cost with system dimensions. Quantum computer offers the potential to simulate quantum dynamics with polynomial complexity;…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Chee-Kong Lee , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang , Liang Shi

Utilizing quantum computer to investigate quantum chemistry is an important research field nowadays. In addition to the ground-state problems that have been widely studied, the determination of excited-states plays a crucial role in the…

To overcome the fast oscillatory behavior of correlation functions for extracting scattering phase shift in real-time quantum simulations encountered in Ref.\cite{Guo:2026qkx}, we propose and test two solutions in the present work. One is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Peng Guo , Paul LeVan , Frank X. Lee , Yong Zhao

We present quantum algorithms for solving two problems regarding stochastic processes. The first algorithm prepares the thermal Gibbs state of a quantum system and runs in time almost linear in $\sqrt{N \beta/{\cal Z}}$ and polynomial in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Anirban Narayan Chowdhury , Rolando D. Somma

The Gibbs partition function is an important quantity in describing statistical properties of a system in thermodynamic equilibrium. There are several proposals to calculate the partition functions on near-team quantum computers. However,…

This work introduces a method for determining the energy spectrum of lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD) by applying the Lanczos algorithm to the transfer matrix and using a bootstrap generalization of the Cullum-Willoughby method to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-05-09 Michael L. Wagman

Preparing finite temperature states in quantum simulators of spin systems, such as trapped ions or Rydberg atoms in optical tweezers, is challenging due to their almost perfect isolation from the environment. Here, we show how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Alexander Schuckert , Annabelle Bohrdt , Eleanor Crane , Michael Knap

The determination of ground state properties of quantum systems is a fundamental problem in physics and chemistry, and is considered a key application of quantum computers. A common approach is to prepare a trial ground state on the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 Harish J. Vallury , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

Estimating the eigenstate properties of quantum systems is a long-standing, challenging problem for both classical and quantum computing. Existing universal quantum algorithms typically rely on ideal and efficient query models (e.g. time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Jinzhao Sun , Pei Zeng , Tom Gur , M. S. Kim