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Simulation of realistic classical mechanical systems is of great importance to many areas of engineering such as robotics, dynamics of rotating machinery and control theory. In this work, we develop quantum algorithms to estimate quantities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Hari Krovi

We discuss an approach to determine averages of the work, dissipated heat and variation of internal energy of an open quantum system driven by an external classical field. These quantities are measured by coupling the quantum system to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Paolo Solinas , Mirko Amico , Nino N. Zanghì

We study many-body chaos in a (2+1)D relativistic scalar field theory at high temperatures in the classical statistical approximation, which captures the quantum critical regime and the thermal phase transition from an ordered to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-21 Alexander Schuckert , Michael Knap

The main objective of a statistical mechanical calculation is drawing the phase diagram of a many-body system. In this respect, discrete systems offer the clear advantage over continuum systems of an easier enumeration of microstates,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-04-01 Davide DeGregorio , Santi Prestipino

A continuous infinite system of point particles with strong superstable interaction is considered in the framework of classical statistical mechanics. The family of approximated correlation functions is determined in such a way, that they…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-07-27 Sergey Petrenko , Alexei Rebenko , Maksym Tertychnyi

We reveal a correspondence between temperature and integrability-breaking in classical and quantum many-body systems through the lens of geometry and adiabatic transformations. Decreasing the temperature, obtained in a standard way through…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-03 Hyeongjin Kim , Souvik Bandyopadhyay , Anatoli Polkovnikov

Correlations between different partitions of quantum systems play a central role in a variety of many-body quantum systems, and they have been studied exhaustively in experimental and theoretical research. Here, we investigate dynamical…

We consider a family of quantum spin systems which includes as special cases the ferromagnetic XY model and ferromagnetic Ising model on any graph, with or without a transverse magnetic field. We prove that the partition function of any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Sergey Bravyi , David Gosset

An efficient Path Integral Monte Carlo procedure is proposed to simulate the behavior of quantum many-body dissipative systems described within the framework of the influence functional. Thermodynamic observables are obtained by Monte Carlo…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Luca Capriotti , Alessandro Cuccoli , Andrea Fubini , Valerio Tognetti , Ruggero Vaia

Low-temperature thermodynamics of the classical frustrated ferromagnetic spin chain near the ferromagnet-helimagnet transition point is studied by means of mapping to the continuum limit. The calculation of the partition function and spin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 D. V. Dmitriev , V. Ya. Krivnov

We study approximations of the partition function of dense graphical models. Partition functions of graphical models play a fundamental role is statistical physics, in statistics and in machine learning. Two of the main methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Vishesh Jain , Frederic Koehler , Elchanan Mossel

The hidden shift problem is a natural place to look for new separations between classical and quantum models of computation. One advantage of this problem is its flexibility, since it can be defined for a whole range of functions and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-05 Dmitry Gavinsky , Martin Roetteler , Jérémie Roland

A recent description of an exact map for the equilibrium structure and thermodynamics of a quantum system onto a corresponding classical system is summarized. Approximate implementations are constructed by pinning exact limits (ideal gas,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-14 Jeffrey Wrighton , James Dufty , Sandipan Dutta

A quantum system can undergo a continuous phase transition at the absolute zero of temperature as some parameter entering its Hamiltonian is varied. These transitions are particularly interesting for, in contrast to their classical finite…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 S. L. Sondhi , S. M. Girvin , J. P. Carini , D. Shahar

The many-body physics at quantum phase transitions shows a subtle interplay between quantum and thermal fluctuations, emerging in the low-temperature limit. In this review, we first give a pedagogical introduction to the equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-22 Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari

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

Correlated classical and quantum many-particle systems out of equilibrium are of high interest in many fields, including dense plasmas, correlated solids, and ultracold atoms. Accurate theoretical description of these systems is challenging…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-02 Erik Schroedter , Michael Bonitz

We present a method to approximate partition functions of quantum systems using mixed-state quantum computation. For positive semi-definite Hamiltonians, our method has expected running-time that is almost linear in $(M/(\epsilon_{\rm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Anirban N. Chowdhury , Rolando D. Somma , Yigit Subasi

Quantum information theory has considerably helped in the understanding of quantum many-body systems. The role of quantum correlations and in particular, bipartite entanglement, has become crucial to characterise, classify and simulate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-27 Gabriele De Chiara , Anna Sanpera

It is of great interest to understand the thermalization of open quantum many-body systems, and how quantum computers are able to efficiently simulate that process. A recently introduced disispative evolution, inspired by existing models of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Cambyse Rouzé , Daniel Stilck França , Álvaro M. Alhambra