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We present a general definition of quantum mutual entropy for infinitely extended quantum spin and fermion lattice systems. Using this, we establish a thermal area law in these infinitely extended quantum systems. The proof is based on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Hajime Moriya

Recently, it was understood that modified concepts of locality played an important role in the study of extended quantum systems out of equilibrium, in particular in so-called generalized Gibbs ensembles. In this paper, we rigorously study…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Benjamin Doyon

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 ground states and thermal states is essential for simulating quantum systems on quantum computers. Despite the hope for practical quantum advantage in quantum simulation, popular state preparation approaches have been challenged.…

The area law of the bipartite information measure characterizes one of the most fundamental aspects of quantum many-body physics. In thermal equilibrium, the area law for the mutual information universally holds at arbitrary temperatures as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Donghoon Kim , Tomotaka Kuwahara , Keiji Saito

In this work we propose to simulate many-body thermodynamics of infinite-size quantum lattice models in one, two, and three dimensions, in terms of few-body models of only O(10) sites, which we coin as quantum entanglement simulators…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-23 Shi-Ju Ran , Bin Xi , Cheng Peng , Gang Su , Maciej Lewenstein

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

Quantifying multipartite entanglement in quantum many-body systems and hybrid quantum computing architectures is a fundamental yet challenging task. In recent years, thermodynamic quantities such as the maximum extractable work from an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Harsh Sharma , Sampriti Saha , A. S. Majumdar , Manik Banik , Himadri Shekhar Dhar

The entanglement area law is a universal principle that characterizes the information structure in quantum many-body systems and serves as the foundation for modern algorithms based on tensor network representations. Historically, the area…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Donghoon Kim , Tomotaka Kuwahara

As one of the most prominent platforms for analog quantum simulators, Rydberg atom arrays are a promising tool for exploring quantum phases and transitions. While the ground state properties of one-dimensional Rydberg systems are already…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Nora Reinić , Daniel Jaschke , Darvin Wanisch , Pietro Silvi , Simone Montangero

We investigate the relaxation dynamics of open non-integrable quantum many-body systems in the thermodynamic limit by using a tensor-network formalism. We simulate the Lindblad quantum master equation (LQME) of infinite systems by making…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-21 Hayate Nakano , Tatsuhiko Shirai , Takashi Mori

We propose a method based on deep reinforcement learning that efficiently prepares a quantum many-body pure state in thermal or prethermal equilibrium. The main physical intuition underlying the method is that the information on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-30 Shotaro Z. Baba , Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Yuto Ashida , Takahiro Sagawa

The preparation of quantum Gibbs states at finite temperatures is a cornerstone of quantum computation, enabling applications in quantum simulation of many-body systems, machine learning via quantum Boltzmann machines, and optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Rui-Hao Li , Semeon Valgushev , Khadijeh Najafi

Quantum many-body systems are challenging targets for computational physics due to their large degrees of freedom. The tensor networks, particularly Tensor Product States (TPS) and Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS), effectively…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-15 Yuichi Motoyama , Tsuyoshi Okubo , Kazuyoshi Yoshimi , Satoshi Morita , Tatsumi Aoyama , Takeo Kato , Naoki Kawashima

We study the scaling of entanglement in low-energy states of quantum many-body models on lattices of arbitrary dimensions. We allow for unbounded Hamiltonians such that systems with bosonic degrees of freedom are included. We show that if…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-22 Fernando G. S. L. Brandao , Marcus Cramer

A quantum system coupled to a bath at some fixed, finite temperature converges to its Gibbs state. This thermalization process defines a natural, physically-motivated model of quantum computation. However, whether quantum computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Thiago Bergamaschi , Chi-Fang Chen , Yunchao Liu

While recent advances have established efficient quantum algorithms for preparing Gibbs states of finite-dimensional systems, comparable complexity results for bosonic and other infinite-dimensional models remain unexplored. We introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Simon Becker , Cambyse Rouzé , Robert Salzmann

On the example of a free massless and conformally coupled scalar field, it is argued that in quantum field theory in curved spacetimes with time-like Killing field, the corresponding KMS states (generalized Gibbs ensembles) at parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Christoph Solveen

Simulating strongly coupled gauge theories at finite temperature and density is a longstanding challenge in nuclear and high-energy physics that also has fundamental implications for condensed matter physics. In this work, we use minimally…

A large class of isolated quantum system in a pure state can equilibrate and serve as a heat bath. We show that once the equilibrium is reached, any of its subsystems that is much smaller than the isolated system is thermalized such that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-13 Quntao Zhuang , Biao Wu