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We present a quasipolynomial-time algorithm for solving the weak membership problem for the convex set of separable, i.e. non-entangled, bipartite density matrices. The algorithm decides whether a density matrix is separable or whether it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-13 Fernando G. S. L. Brandao , Matthias Christandl , Jon Yard

Given a set of local dynamics, are they compatible with a global dynamics? We systematically formulate these questions as quantum channel marginal problems. These problems are strongly connected to the generalization of the no-signaling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-20 Chung-Yun Hsieh , Matteo Lostaglio , Antonio Acín

In this paper, we consider the problem of unambiguous discrimination between a set of mixed quantum states. We first divide the density matrix of each mixed state into two parts by the fact that it comes from ensemble of pure quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chi Zhang , Yuan Feng , Ming Sheng Ying

Clarifying the relation between the whole and its parts is crucial for many problems in science. In quantum mechanics, this question manifests itself in the quantum marginal problem, which asks whether there is a global pure quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-18 Xiao-Dong Yu , Timo Simnacher , Nikolai Wyderka , H. Chau Nguyen , Otfried Gühne

We prove the existence of extensive many-body Hamiltonians with few-body interactions and a many-body mobility edge: all eigenstates below a nonzero energy density are localized in an exponentially small fraction of "energetically allowed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-24 Chao Yin , Rahul Nandkishore , Andrew Lucas

The Local Hamiltonian problem (finding the ground state energy of a quantum system) is known to be QMA-complete. The Local Consistency problem (deciding whether descriptions of small pieces of a quantum system are consistent) is also known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-17 Yi-Kai Liu

Quantum computing offers several new pathways toward finding many-body eigenstates, with variational approaches being some of the most flexible and near-term oriented. These require particular parameterizations of the state, and for solving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Scott E. Smart , Prineha Narang

Calculating bounds of properties of many-body quantum systems is of paramount importance, since they guide our understanding of emergent quantum phenomena and complement the insights obtained from estimation methods. Recent semidefinite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Luke Mortimer , Leonardo Zambrano , Antonio Acín , Donato Farina

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing quantum free energies under the constraint that the density of particles is fixed at each point of Rd, for any d $\ge$ 1. We are more particularly interested in the characterization of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-04-02 Romain Duboscq , Olivier Pinaud

Quantum computers can be used to address molecular structure, materials science and condensed matter physics problems, which currently stretch the limits of existing high-performance computing resources. Finding exact numerical solutions to…

We present a method to detect entanglement partitions of multipartite quantum systems, by exploiting their inherent symmetries. Structures like genuinely multipartite entanglement, $m$-separability and entanglement depth are detected as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Albert Rico , Dmitry Grinko , Robin Krebs , Lin Htoo Zaw

It is a hard and important problem to find the criterion of the set of positive-definite matrixes which can be written as reduced density operators of a multi-partite quantum state. This problem is closely related to the study of many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yong-Jian Han , Yong-Sheng Zhang , Guang-Can Guo

We propose a numerical algorithm for finding optimal measurements for quantum-state discrimination. The theory of the semidefinite programming provides a simple check of the optimality of the numerically obtained results.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 M. Jezek , J. Rehacek , J. Fiurasek

We present algorithmic improvements for fast and memory-efficient use of discrete spatial symmetries in Exact Diagonalization computations of quantum many-body systems. These techniques allow us to work flexibly in the reduced basis of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-05 Alexander Wietek , Andreas M. Läuchli

Computing the ground state of interacting quantum matter is a long-standing challenge, especially for complex two-dimensional systems. Recent developments have highlighted the potential of neural quantum states to solve the quantum…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-03 Ao Chen , Markus Heyl

We present a protocol that allows the estimation of any density matrix element for continuous-variable quantum states, without resorting to the complete reconstruction of the full density matrix. The algorithm adaptatively discretizes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Virginia Feldman , Ariel Bendersky

A semidefinite program (SDP) is a particular kind of convex optimization problem with applications in operations research, combinatorial optimization, quantum information science, and beyond. In this work, we propose variational quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Dhrumil Patel , Patrick J. Coles , Mark M. Wilde

We investigate an approach for studying the ground state of a quantum many-body Hamiltonian that is based on treating the correlation functions as variational parameters. In this approach, the challenge set by the exponentially-large…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-22 Arbel Haim , Richard Kueng , Gil Refael

Marginal problems naturally arise in a variety of different fields: basically, the question is whether some marginal/partial information is compatible with a joint probability distribution. To this aim, the characterization of marginal sets…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-23 Thomas Gläßle , Rafael Chaves , David Gross

We investigate variational problems in quantum thermodynamics at positive temperature, in which admissible states are constrained by prescribed outcomes of a finite set of measurements. We solve a problem raised by the recent work [Liu,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Emanuele Caputo , Augusto Gerolin , Nataliia Monina , Pavlo Pelikh , Lorenzo Portinale