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Imaginary-time evolution, an important technique in tensor network and quantum Monte Carlo algorithms on classical computers, has recently been adapted to quantum computing. In this study, we focus on probabilistic imaginary-time evolution…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-27 Satoshi Ejima , Kazuhiro Seki , Benedikt Fauseweh , Seiji Yunoki

Calculations at finite temperatures are fundamental in different scientific fields, from nuclear physics to condensed matter. Evolution in imaginary time is a prominent classical technique for preparing thermal states of quantum systems. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-30 Francesco Turro

The accurate computation of Hamiltonian ground, excited, and thermal states on quantum computers stands to impact many problems in the physical and computer sciences, from quantum simulation to machine learning. Given the challenges posed…

Adiabatic evolution is a central paradigm in quantum physics. Digital simulations of adiabatic processes are generally viewed as costly, since algorithmic errors typically accumulate over the long evolution time, requiring exceptionally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Yangyu Lu , Yifei Huang , Dong An , Qi Zhao , Dingshun Lv , Xiao Yuan

Quantum computing has shown the potential to substantially speed up machine learning applications, in particular for supervised and unsupervised learning. Reinforcement learning, on the other hand, has become essential for solving many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 El Amine Cherrat , Iordanis Kerenidis , Anupam Prakash

Quantum computers promise a highly efficient approach to investigate quantum phase transitions, which describe abrupt changes between different ground states of many-body systems. At quantum critical points, the divergent correlation length…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-02 Shi-Xin Zhang , Shuai Yin

Simulation of continuous time evolution requires time discretization on both classical and quantum computers. A finer time step improves simulation precision, but it inevitably leads to increased computational efforts. This is particularly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Hongzheng Zhao , Marin Bukov , Markus Heyl , Roderich Moessner

We present efficient quantum algorithms for simulating time-dependent Hamiltonian evolution of general input states using an oracular model of a quantum computer. Our algorithms use either constant or adaptively chosen time steps and are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-03 Nathan Wiebe , Dominic W. Berry , Peter Hoyer , Barry C. Sanders

Variational Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution (VQITE) is a leading technique for ground state preparation on quantum computers. A significant computational challenge of VQITE is the determination of the quantum geometric tensor. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Aeishah Ameera Anuar , Francois Jamet , Fabio Gironella , Fedor Simkovic , Riccardo Rossi

Quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE) is a powerful method to derive the ground states of the systems. Only the damping of quantum states leads it; hence, reaching the ground state is guaranteed by nature without any external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Hikaru Wakaura , Rahmat Mulyawan , Andriyan B. Suksmono

The representation of a quantum wave function as a neural network quantum state (NQS) provides a powerful variational ansatz for finding the ground states of many-body quantum systems. Nevertheless, due to the complex variational landscape,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Eimantas Ledinauskas , Egidijus Anisimovas

Analog quantum simulation is emerging as a powerful tool for uncovering classically unreachable physics such as many-body real-time dynamics. A complete quantification of uncertainties is necessary in order to make precise predictions using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Nikita A. Zemlevskiy , Henry F. Froland , Stephan Caspar

Quantum computers open the possibility of performing real-time calculations for quantum field theory scattering processes. We propose to use an index averaging the absolute value of the difference between the accurately calculated Trotter…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-10-18 Erik Gustafson , Patrick Dreher , Zheyue Hang , Yannick Meurice

The real- and imaginary-time evolution of quantum states are powerful tools in physics, chemistry, and beyond, to investigate quantum dynamics, prepare ground states or calculate thermodynamic observables. On near-term devices, variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Julien Gacon , Jannes Nys , Riccardo Rossi , Stefan Woerner , Giuseppe Carleo

Quantum imaginary-time evolution (QITE) is a promising tool to prepare thermal or ground states of Hamiltonians, as convergence is guaranteed when the evolved state overlaps with the ground state. However, its implementation using a a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Ioannis Kolotouros , David Joseph , Anand Kumar Narayanan

We introduce a constructive method for mapping non-unitary dynamics to a weighted set of unitary operations. We utilize this construction to derive a new correspondence between real and imaginary time, which we term Imaginary Time Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Jacob M. Leamer , Alicia B. Magann , Denys I. Bondar , Gerard McCaul

High-fidelity quantum dynamics emulators can be used to predict the time evolution of complex physical systems. Here, we introduce an efficient training framework for constructing machine learning-based emulators. Our approach is based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Yu Yao , Chao Cao , Stephan Haas , Mahak Agarwal , Divyam Khanna , Marcin Abram

Quantum phase estimation (QPE) plays a pivotal role in many quantum algorithms, offering provable speedups in applications such as Shor's factoring algorithm. While fault-tolerant quantum algorithms for combinatorial and Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Nora Bauer , George Siopsis

The quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE) methodology was developed to overcome a critical issue as regards non-unitarity in the implementation of imaginary time evolution on a quantum computer. QITE has since been used to approximate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 Swagat Kumar , Colin Michael Wilmott

A promising application of neural-network quantum states is to describe the time dynamics of many-body quantum systems. To realize this idea, we employ neural-network quantum states to approximate the implicit midpoint rule method, which…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-01-26 Irene López Gutiérrez , Christian B. Mendl