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Quantum thermalization in contemporary quantum devices, in particular quantum computers, has recently attracted significant theoretical interest. Unusual thermalization processes, such as the Quantum Mpemba Effect (QME), have been explored…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Marc Espinosa Edo , Lian-Ao Wu

The preparation of quantum states using short quantum circuits is one of the most promising near-term applications of small quantum computers, especially if the circuit is short enough and the fidelity of gates high enough that it can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 D. Wecker , M. B. Hastings , M. Troyer

We present a Hamiltonian quantum computation scheme universal for quantum computation (BQP). Our Hamiltonian is a sum of a polynomial number (in the number of gates L in the quantum circuit) of time-independent, constant-norm, 2-local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Daniel Nagaj

We discuss a quantum refrigerator to increase the ground state probability of a target qubit whose energy difference between the ground and excited states is less than the thermal energy of the environment. We consider two types of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-07 Hideaki Okane , Shunsuke Kamimura , Shingo Kukita , Yasushi Kondo , Yuichiro Matsuzaki

Adiabatic quantum computing enables the preparation of many-body ground states. This is key for applications in chemistry, materials science, and beyond. Realisation poses major experimental challenges: Direct analog implementation requires…

One of the key applications for the emerging quantum simulators is to emulate the ground state of many-body systems, as it is of great interest in various fields from condensed matter physics to material science. Traditionally, in an analog…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-18 Chufan Lyu , Victor Montenegro , Abolfazl Bayat

We analytically demonstrate that strong system-bath coupling separates the relaxation dynamics of a dissipative quantum system into two distinct regimes: a short-time dynamics that, as expected, accelerates with increasing coupling to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Brett Min , Matthew Gerry , Dvira Segal

We address the out-of-equilibrium dynamics arising from quantum-quench (QQ) protocols (instantaneous changes of the Hamiltonian parameters) in many-body systems within their quantum critical regime and in contact with thermal baths,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-26 Francesco Tarantelli , Ettore Vicari

Noise and errors are unavoidable in any realistic quantum process, including processes designed to reduce noise and errors in the first place. In particular, quantum thermodynamical protocols for cooling can be significantly affected,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Jian Li , Xiaoyang Wang , Marcus Huber , Nicolai Friis , Pharnam Bakhshinezhad

Recent development of mixed-state encoding (MSE) allows pure-state logical information to be encoded by a bosonic (continuous-variable) system in mixed physical state. Despite interest due to its counter-intuitiveness, the utility of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Kevin Marshall , Daniel F. V. James , Alexandru Paler , Hoi-Kwan Lau

Many physically interesting models show a quantum phase transition when a single parameter is varied through a critical point, where the ground state and the first excited state become degenerate. When this parameter appears as a coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-24 Gernot Schaller

Cooling the trapped atoms toward their motional ground states is key to applications of quantum simulation and quantum computation. By utilizing nonreciprocal couplings between constituent atoms, we present an intriguing dark-state cooling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-17 Chun-Che Wang , Yi-Cheng Wang , Chung-Hsien Wang , Chi-Chih Chen , H. H. Jen

We describe a quantum computer based upon the coherent manipulation of two-level atoms between discrete one-dimensional momentum states. Combinations of short laser pulses with kinetic energy dependent free phase evolution can perform the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tim Freegarde , Danny Segal

Engineering design processes involve iterative design evaluations requiring numerous computationally intensive numerical simulations. Quantum algorithms promise substantial speedups for specific tasks relevant to engineering simulations.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Leonhard Hölscher , Lukas Müller , Or Samimi , Tamuz Danzig

Dynamic polarization protocols aim to hyperpolarize a spin bath by transferring spin polarization from a well-controlled qubit such as a quantum dot or a color defect. Building on techniques from shortcuts to adiabaticity, we design fast…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Tamiro Villazon , Pieter W. Claeys , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Anushya Chandran

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

Quantum simulation relies on the preparation and control of low-entropy many-body systems to reveal the behavior of classically intractable models. The development of new approaches for realizing such systems therefore represents a frontier…

Dissipation and the accompanying fluctuations are often seen as detrimental for quantum systems, since they are associated with fast relaxation and loss of phase coherence. However, it has been proposed that a pure state can be prepared if…

In this work, we study the thermodynamics of a two-level system (qubit) embedded in a finite-temperature structured-bath under periodical measurements. The system under measurements will reach a quasi-steady state, whose effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Jia-Ming Zhang , Jun Jing , Lian-Ao Wu , Li-Gang Wang , Shi-Yao Zhu

As standard data loading processes, quantum state preparation and block-encoding are critical and necessary processes for quantum computing applications, including quantum machine learning, Hamiltonian simulation, and many others. Yet,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Xiao-Ming Zhang