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Reference-frame-independent measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (RFI-MDI-QKD) eliminates detector side-channel attacks and avoids reference-frame calibration. While its feasibility has been widely demonstrated, existing…

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The use of free energy perturbation (FEP) methods to study protein-ligand complexes is one of the most important tools in structure-based drug design. Because FEP methods typically rely on force fields, they may suffer from force field…

In low-temperature high-density plasmas quantum effects of the electrons are becoming increasingly important. This requires the development of new theoretical and computational tools. Quantum Monte Carlo methods are among the most…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-12 T. Schoof , S. Groth , M. Bonitz

This work develops and illustrates a new method of calculating "chemically accurate" electronic wavefunctions (and energies) via a truncated full configuration interaction (CI) procedure which arguably circumvents the large matrix…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Stephen J. Cotton

Non-Markovianity may significantly speed up quantum dynamics when the system interacts strongly with an infinite large reservoir, of which the coupling spectrum should be fine-tuned. The potential benefits are evident in many dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-07 Xiangyi Meng , Yang Li , Jian-Wei Zhang , Hong Guo , H. Eugene Stanley

Simulating noninteracting fermion systems is a common task in computational many-body physics. In absence of translational symmetries, modeling free fermions on $N$ modes usually requires poly$(N)$ computational resources. While often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Maarten Stroeks , Daan Lenterman , Barbara Terhal , Yaroslav Herasymenko

We propose quantum algorithms that provide provable speedups for Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods commonly used for sampling from probability distributions of the form $\pi \propto e^{-f}$, where $f$ is a potential function. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Guneykan Ozgul , Xiantao Li , Mehrdad Mahdavi , Chunhao Wang

Solving the ground state of quantum many-body systems remains a fundamental challenge in physics and chemistry. Recent advancements in quantum hardware have opened new avenues for addressing this challenge. Inspired by the quantum-enhanced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Longfei Chang , Zhendong Li , Wei-Hai Fang

We introduce an efficient approach to implement correlated many-body trial wave functions in auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC). To control the sign/phase problem in AFQMC, a constraint is derived from an exact gauge condition but…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-27 Zhi-Yu Xiao , Zixiang Lu , Yixiao Chen , Tao Xiang , Shiwei Zhang

Full configuration interaction (FCI) solvers are limited to small basis sets due to their expensive computational costs. An optimal orbital selection for FCI (OptOrbFCI) is proposed to boost the power of existing FCI solvers to pursue the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Yingzhou Li , Jianfeng Lu

The effectiveness of measurement-based feedback control (MBFC) protocols is hampered by the presence of measurement noise, which affects the ability to accurately infer the underlying dynamics of a quantum system from noisy continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Sangkha Borah , Bijita Sarma

Highly accurate results for the homogeneous electron gas (HEG) have only been achieved to date within a diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) framework. Here, we introduce a newly developed stochastic technique, Full Configuration Interaction Quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-02-22 James J. Shepherd , George Booth , Andreas Grüneis , Ali Alavi

We extend correlated sampling from classical auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo to the quantum-classical (QC-AFQMC) framework, enabling accurate nuclear force computations crucial for geometry optimization and reaction dynamics. Stochastic…

We achieve a quantum speed-up of fully polynomial randomized approximation schemes (FPRAS) for estimating partition functions that combine simulated annealing with the Monte-Carlo Markov Chain method and use non-adaptive cooling schedules.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-12 Pawel Wocjan , Chen-Fu Chiang , Anura Abeyesinghe , Daniel Nagaj

We introduce a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm that dramatically accelerates the simulation of quantum many-body systems, a grand challenge in computational science. State-of-the-art methods for these problems are severely limited…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-17 Deqian Kong , Shi Feng , Jianwen Xie , Ying Nian Wu

In common with many high-accuracy electronic structure methods, the initiator adaptation of full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo (i-FCIQMC) has difficulty treating realistic systems with large numbers of electrons. This…

We study the regimes in which Hamiltonian simulation benefits from randomization. We introduce a sparse-QSVT construction based on composite stochastic decompositions, where dominant terms are treated deterministically and smaller…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Francesco Paganelli , Michele Grossi , Andrea Giachero , Thomas E. O'Brien , Oriel Kiss

Inspired by our earlier semi-stochastic work aimed at converging high-level coupled-cluster (CC) energetics [J. E. Deustua, J. Shen, and P. Piecuch, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 223003 (2017); J. Chem. Phys. 154, 124103 (2021)], we propose a novel…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-06 Karthik Gururangan , J. Emiliano Deustua , Jun Shen , Piotr Piecuch

In variational quantum algorithms, parameterization is typically applied to single-qubit gates.In this study, we instead parameterize a generalized controlled gate and propose an algorithm to locally minimize the cost function by maximally…

Quantum algorithms for selecting a subspace of Hamiltonians to diagonalize have emerged as a promising alternative to variational algorithms in the NISQ era. So far, such algorithms, which include the quantum selected configuration…