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Preparing thermal and ground states is an essential quantum algorithmic task for quantum simulation. In this work, we construct the first efficiently implementable and exactly detailed-balanced Lindbladian for Gibbs states of arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Chi-Fang Chen , Michael J. Kastoryano , András Gilyén

In a recent work [10], Poulin and one of us presented a quantum algorithm for preparing thermal Gibbs states of interacting quantum systems. This algorithm is based on Grovers's technique for quantum state engineering, and its running time…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-06-12 Chen-Fu Chiang , Pawel Wocjan

We propose a polynomial-time algorithm for preparing the Gibbs state of the two-dimensional toric code Hamiltonian at any temperature, starting from any initial condition, significantly improving upon prior estimates that suggested…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Zhiyan Ding , Zeph Landau , Bowen Li , Lin Lin , Ruizhe Zhang

We present a quantum algorithm to prepare the thermal Gibbs state of interacting quantum systems. This algorithm sets a universal upper bound D^alpha on the thermalization time of a quantum system, where D is the system's Hilbert space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 David Poulin , Pawel Wocjan

We present a variational approach for quantum simulators to realize finite temperature Gibbs states by preparing thermofield double (TFD) states. Our protocol is motivated by the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-04 Jingxiang Wu , Timothy H. Hsieh

Preparing thermal states on a quantum computer can have a variety of applications, from simulating many-body quantum systems to training machine learning models. Variational circuits have been proposed for this task on near-term quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 Jonathan Foldager , Arthur Pesah , Lars Kai Hansen

Quantum computers are a highly promising tool for efficiently simulating quantum many-body systems. The preparation of their eigenstates is of particular interest and can be addressed, e.g., by quantum phase estimation algorithms. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Xiaoyu Liu , Benjamin F. Schiffer , Jordi Tura

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

Gibbs state preparation is an important subroutine in quantum computing. In this work we use the detectability lemma to improve Gibbs state preparation. Specifically, we design new Gibbs state preparation methods that do not rely on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Di Fang , Jianfeng Lu , Yu Tong , Chu Zhao

This work presents a novel realization approach to Quantum Boltzmann Machines (QBMs). The preparation of the required Gibbs states, as well as the evaluation of the loss function's analytic gradient is based on Variational Quantum Imaginary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-01 Christa Zoufal , Aurélien Lucchi , Stefan Woerner

We propose a variational quantum algorithm to prepare ground states of 1D lattice quantum Hamiltonians specifically tailored for programmable quantum devices where interactions among qubits are mediated by Quantum Data Buses (QDB). For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Viacheslav V. Kuzmin , Pietro Silvi

Gibbs state preparation, or Gibbs sampling, is a key computational technique extensively used in physics, statistics, and other scientific fields. Recent efforts for designing fast mixing Gibbs samplers for quantum Hamiltonians have largely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Yeongwoo Hwang , Jiaqing Jiang

Solving finite-temperature properties of quantum many-body systems is generally challenging to classical computers due to their high computational complexities. In this article, we present experiments to demonstrate a hybrid…

Preparing the thermal density matrix $\rho_{\beta} \propto e^{-\beta H}$ corresponding to a given Hamiltonian $H$ is a task of central interest across quantum many-body physics, and is particularly salient when attempting to study it with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Dominik Hahn , S. A. Parameswaran , Benedikt Placke

We present quantum algorithms for solving two problems regarding stochastic processes. The first algorithm prepares the thermal Gibbs state of a quantum system and runs in time almost linear in $\sqrt{N \beta/{\cal Z}}$ and polynomial in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Anirban Narayan Chowdhury , Rolando D. Somma

Preparing thermal equilibrium states is an essential task for finite-temperature quantum simulations. In statistical mechanics, microstates in thermal equilibrium can be obtained from statistical ensembles. To date, numerous ensembles have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Yasushi Yoneta

Quantum state preparation is an important class of quantum algorithms that is employed as a black-box subroutine in many algorithms, or used by itself to generate arbitrary probability distributions. We present a novel state preparation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Yutaro Iiyama

In recent years, variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) have gained significant attention due to their adaptability and efficiency on near-term quantum hardware. They have shown potential in a variety of tasks, including linear algebra,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-06 Yigal Ilin , Itai Arad

While dissipation has traditionally been viewed as an obstacle to quantum coherence, it is increasingly recognized as a powerful computational resource. Dissipative protocols can prepare complex many-body quantum states by leveraging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Lin Lin

Gaussian states hold a fundamental place in quantum mechanics, quantum information, and quantum computing. Many subfields, including quantum simulation of continuous-variable systems, quantum chemistry, and quantum machine learning, rely on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Yichen Xie , Nadav Ben-Ami