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Determining the steady state of an open quantum system is crucial for characterizing quantum devices and studying various physical phenomena. Often, computing a single steady state is insufficient, and it is necessary to explore its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 André Melo , Gaspard Beugnot , Fabrizio Minganti

The first goal of Vibration-Transit (V-T) theory was to construct a tractable approximate Hamiltonian from which the equilibrium thermodynamic properties of monatomic liquids can be calculated. The Hamiltonian for vibrations in an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Giulia DeLorenzi-Venneri , Duane Wallace

Determining ground state energies of quantum systems by hybrid classical/quantum methods has emerged as a promising candidate application for near-term quantum computational resources. Short of large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-25 Nicholas C. Rubin

We introduce a non-linear differential flow equation for density matrices that provides a monotonic decrease of the free energy and reaches a fixed point at the Gibbs thermal state. We use this equation to build a variational approach for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-04 Tao Shi , Eugene Demler , J. Ignacio Cirac

Slater determinants have underpinned quantum chemistry for nearly a century, yet their full potential has remained challenging to exploit. In this work, we show that a variational wavefunction composed of a few hundred optimized…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Clemens Giuliani , Jannes Nys , Rocco Martinazzo , Giuseppe Carleo , Riccardo Rossi

A variational ansatz for momentum eigenstates of translation invariant quantum spin chains is formulated. The matrix product state ansatz works directly in the thermodynamic limit and allows for an efficient implementation (cubic scaling in…

Recent advances in analog and digital quantum-simulation platforms have enabled exploration of the spectrum of entanglement Hamiltonians via variational algorithms. In this work we analyze the convergence properties of the variationally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Yanick S. Kind , Benedikt Fauseweh

Recent practical approaches for the use of current generation noisy quantum devices in the simulation of quantum many-body problems have been dominated by the use of a variational quantum eigensolver (VQE). These coupled quantum-classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Hongxiang Chen , Max Nusspickel , Jules Tilly , George H. Booth

Forecasting tasks using large datasets gathering thousands of heterogeneous time series is a crucial statistical problem in numerous sectors. The main challenge is to model a rich variety of time series, leverage any available external…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Etienne David , Jean Bellot , Sylvain Le Corff

We present a new variational method for investigating the ground state and out of equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body bosonic and fermionic systems. Our approach is based on constructing variational wavefunctions which extend Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Tao Shi , Eugene Demler , J. Ignacio Cirac

For discrete classical Molecular dynamics (MD) obtained by the "Verlet" algorithm (VA) with the time increment $h$ there exists a shadow Hamiltonian $\tilde{H}$ with energy $\tilde{E}(h)$, for which the discrete particle positions lie on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-02-05 Soeren Toxvaerd

We present a basis-set-free approach to the variational quantum eigensolver using an adaptive representation of the spatial part of molecular wavefunctions. Our approach directly determines system-specific representations of qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Jakob S. Kottmann , Philipp Schleich , Teresa Tamayo-Mendoza , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Quantum simulators offer the potential to utilize the quantum nature of a physical system to study another physical system. In contrast to conventional simulation, which experiences an exponential increase in computational complexity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Xuliang Du , Yang Shen , Zipeng Wu , Bei Zeng , Sen Yang

We present a simple scheme to evaluate linear response functions including quantum fluctuation corrections on top of the Gutzwiller approximation. The method is derived for a generic multi-band lattice Hamiltonian without any assumption…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-08 Michele Fabrizio

A new theoretical model for self dynamic response is developed using Vibration-Transit (V-T) theory, and is applied to liquid sodium at all wavevectors q from the hydrodynamic regime to the free particle limit. In this theory the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Giulia De Lorenzi-Venneri , Eric D. Chisolm , Duane C. Wallace

Highly excited states of quantum many-body systems are central objects in the study of quantum dynamics and thermalization that challenge classical computational methods due to their volume-law entanglement content. In this work, we explore…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-17 Feng Zhang , Niladri Gomes , Yongxin Yao , Peter P. Orth , Thomas Iadecola

The study of ground-state properties of the Fermi-Hubbard model is a long-lasting task in the research of strongly correlated systems. Owing to the exponentially growing complexity of the system, a quantitative analysis usually demands high…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-15 Yue-Ran Shi , Yuan-Yao He , Ruijin Liu , Wei Zhang

This study introduces a systematic and optimised methodology for designing Linear Variable Differential Transformer (LVDT) sensors and Voice Coil (VC) actuators, tailored for high-precision applications such as gravitational wave detectors…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-10 Kumar Akhil Kukkadapu , Hans Van Haevermaet , Wim Beaumont , Nick van Remortel

The variational approach is a cornerstone of computational physics, considering both conventional and quantum computing computational platforms. The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm aims to prepare the ground state of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-16 Nikita Astrakhantsev , Guglielmo Mazzola , Ivano Tavernelli , Giuseppe Carleo

The self consistent version of the density functional theory (DFT) is presented, which allows to calculate the ground state and dynamic properties of finite multi-electron systems such as atoms, molecules and clusters. The exact functional…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ya. Amusia , V. R. Shaginyan