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The eigenstates of many-body localized (MBL) Hamiltonians exhibit low entanglement. We adapt the highly successful density-matrix renormalization group method, which is usually used to find modestly entangled ground states of local…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-23 Vedika Khemani , Frank Pollmann , S. L. Sondhi

Predicting observables in equilibrium states is a central yet notoriously hard question in quantum many-body systems. In the physically relevant thermodynamic limit, certain mathematical formulations of this task have even been shown to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi , Samuel O. Scalet

In several situations, most notably when describing metastable states, a system can evolve according to an effective non hermitian Hamiltonian. To each eigenvalue of a non hermitian Hamiltonian is associated an eigenstate $\vert\phi\rangle$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Y. Aharonov , S. Massar , S. Popescu , J. Tollaksen , L. Vaidman

Computing ground states of local Hamiltonians is a fundamental problem in condensed matter physics. We give the first randomized polynomial-time algorithm for finding ground states of gapped one-dimensional Hamiltonians: it outputs an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-22 Zeph Landau , Umesh Vazirani , Thomas Vidick

We study the problem of learning a $k$-body Hamiltonian with $M$ unknown Pauli terms that are not necessarily geometrically local. We propose a protocol that learns the Hamiltonian to precision $\epsilon$ with total evolution time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 Muzhou Ma , Steven T. Flammia , John Preskill , Yu Tong

The reduction of Hamiltonian systems aims to build smaller reduced models, valid over a certain range of time and parameters, in order to reduce computing time. By maintaining the Hamiltonian structure in the reduced model, certain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Raphaël Côte , Emmanuel Franck , Laurent Navoret , Guillaume Steimer , Vincent Vigon

Learning the Hamiltonian underlying a quantum many-body system in thermal equilibrium is a fundamental task in quantum learning theory and experimental sciences. To learn the Gibbs state of local Hamiltonians at any inverse temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Chi-Fang Chen , Anurag Anshu , Quynh T. Nguyen

Locality is a fundamental feature of many physical time evolutions. Assumptions on locality and related structural properties also underlie recently proposed procedures for learning an unknown Hamiltonian from access to the induced time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Andreas Bluhm , Matthias C. Caro , Aadil Oufkir

If a local Hamiltonian eigenstate is mapped to another state by local operators commuting with the Hamiltonian terms, the latter is also an eigenstate. This basic observation implies a no-go result for both being a unique ground state and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Jose Garre Rubio

Quantum inverse problem is defined as how to determine a local Hamiltonian from a single eigenstate? This question is valid not only in Hermitian system but also in non-Hermitian system. So far, most attempts are limited to Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 Yin Tang , W. Zhu

Finding a local Hamiltonian $\hat{\mathcal{H}}$ having a given many-body wavefunction $|\psi\rangle$ as its ground state, i.e. a parent Hamiltonian, is a challenge of fundamental importance in quantum technologies. Here we introduce a…

This paper investigates the feasibility of mapping non-local, sparse, diagonal forms of quantum Hamiltonians to local forms via eigenbasis permutations. We prove that such a mapping is not always possible, definitively refuting the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-16 Benjamin Commeau , Kevin Player

With the fast development of quantum technology, the sizes of both digital and analog quantum systems increase drastically. In order to have better control and understanding of the quantum hardware, an important task is to characterize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Wenjun Yu , Jinzhao Sun , Zeyao Han , Xiao Yuan

We introduce a simple, fast, and easy to implement unsupervised learning algorithm for detecting different local environments on a single-particle level in colloidal systems. In this algorithm, we use a vector of standard bond-orientational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-08 Emanuele Boattini , Marjolein Dijkstra , Laura Filion

Learning a many-body Hamiltonian from its dynamics is a fundamental problem in physics. In this work, we propose the first algorithm to achieve the Heisenberg limit for learning an interacting $N$-qubit local Hamiltonian. After a total…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Hsin-Yuan Huang , Yu Tong , Di Fang , Yuan Su

We show that the general Heisenberg Hamiltonian with non-uniform couplings can be characterised by mapping the entanglement it generates as a function of time. Identification of the Hamiltonian in this way is possible as the coefficients of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jared H. Cole , Simon J. Devitt , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

Non-local observables play an important role in quantum theory, from Bell inequalities and various post-selection paradoxes to quantum error correction codes. Instantaneous measurement of these observables is known to be a difficult…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-22 Aharon Brodutch , Eliahu Cohen

Estimating extensive combinations of local parameters in distributed quantum systems is a central problem in quantum sensing, with applications ranging from magnetometry to timekeeping. While optimal strategies are known for sensing…

We provide a novel approach for characterization of quantum Hamiltonian systems via utilizing a single measurement device. Specifically, we demonstrate how external quantum correlations can be used for Hamiltonian identification tasks. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-23 M. Mohseni , A. T. Rezakhani , A. Aspuru-Guzik

We present a non perturbative calculation technique providing the mixed moments of the overlaps between the eigenvectors of two large quantum Hamiltonians: $\hat{H}_0$ and $\hat{H}_0+\hat{W}$, where $\hat{H}_0$ is deterministic and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Grégoire Ithier , Saeed Ascroft