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This paper provides the first ab-initio on-the-fly example of using the Quasi-Diabatic (QD) scheme for non-adiabatic simulations with diabatic dynamics approaches. The QD scheme provides a seamless interface between diabatic quantum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-15 Wanghuai Zhou , Arkajit Mandal , Pengfei Huo

We investigate the performance of an adiabatic evolution protocol when initialized from a Gibbs state at finite temperature. Specifically, we identify the diagonality of the final state in the energy eigenbasis, as well as the difference in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Reinis Irmejs , Mari Carmen Bañuls , J. Ignacio Cirac

We propose a method to speed up the quantum adiabatic algorithm using catalysis by many-body delocalization. This is applied to random-field antiferromagnetic Ising spin models. The algorithm is catalyzed in such a way that the evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-06 Chenfeng Cao , Jian Xue , Nic Shannon , Robert Joynt

Shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) are a collection of quantum control techniques that achieve high fidelity outside of the adiabatic regime. Recently an extension to shortcuts to adiabaticity was proposed by the authors [Phys. Rev. Research…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Chris Whitty , Anthony Kiely , Andreas Ruschhaupt

We apply the method of shortcuts to adiabaticity to nonequilibrium systems. For unitary dynamics, the system Hamiltonian is separated into two parts. One of them defines the adiabatic states for the state to follow and the nonadiabatic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-27 Kazutaka Takahashi

Crossing a quantum critical point in finite time challenges the adiabatic condition due to the closing of the energy gap, which ultimately results in the formation of excitations. Such non-adiabatic excitations are typically deemed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Obinna Abah , Gabriele De Chiara , Mauro Paternostro , Ricardo Puebla

In quantum mechanics, adiabatic elimination is a standard tool that produces a low-lying reduced Hamiltonian for a relevant subspace of states, incorporating effects of its coupling to states with much higher energy. Suppose this powerful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-21 Yiming Pan , Ye Yu , Huaiqiang Wang , Tao Chen , Xiaopeng Shen , Qingqing Cheng

A major challenge in quantum computing is to solve general problems with limited physical hardware. Here, we implement digitized adiabatic quantum computing, combining the generality of the adiabatic algorithm with the universality of the…

Quantum computers have recently become available as noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. Already these machines yield a useful environment for research on quantum systems and dynamics. Building on this opportunity, we investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Marcel Cech , Igor Lesanovsky , Federico Carollo

We construct a measure for the adiabatic contribution to quantum transitions in an arbitrary basis, tackling the generic complex case where dynamics is only partially adiabatic, simultaneously populates several eigenstates and transitions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 R. Pant , P. K. Verma , C. Rangi , E. Mondal , M. Bhati , V. Srinivasan , S. Wüster

We consider a process to create quasi long-range quantum discord between the non-interacting end spins of a quantum spin chain, with the end spins weakly coupled to the bulk of the chain. The process is not only capable of creating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-21 Himadri Shekhar Dhar , Debraj Rakshit , Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

Motivated by transitionless quantum driving, we construct shortcuts to adiabatic passage in a three-atom system to create a singlet state with the help of quantum zeno dynamics and non-resonant lasers. The influence of various decoherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 Zhen Chen , Ye-Hong Chen , Yan Xia , Bi-Hua Huang

Despite its simplicity and strong theoretical guarantees, adiabatic state preparation has received considerably less interest than variational approaches for the preparation of low-energy electronic structure states. Two major reasons for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Etienne Granet , Khaldoon Ghanem , Henrik Dreyer

The viability of adiabatic quantum computation depends on the slow evolution of the Hamiltonian. The adiabatic switching theorem provides an asymptotic series for error estimates in $1/T$, based on the lowest non-zero derivative of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Thomas D. Cohen , Andrew Li , Hyunwoo Oh , Maneesha Sushama Pradeep

The quantum adiabatic theorem is a fundamental result in quantum mechanics, with a multitude of applications, both theoretical and practical. Here, we investigate the dynamics of adiabatic processes for quantum many-body systems %in detail…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Vibhu Mishra , Salvatore Manmana , Stefan Kehrein

We adopt a geometric approach to describe the performance of adiabatic quantum machines, operating under slow time-dependent driving and in contact to two or more reservoirs with a temperature bias during all the cycle. We show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Pablo Terren Alonso , Paolo Abiuso , Marti Perarnau-Llobet , Liliana Arrachea

Envariance is a symmetry exhibited by correlated quantum systems. Inspired by this "quantum fact of life," we propose a novel method for shortcuts to adiabaticity which enables the system to evolve through the adiabatic manifold at all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-30 Akram Touil , Sebastian Deffner

Quantum electrodynamics in 1 + 1D (QED2) shares intriguing properties with QCD, including confinement, string breaking, and interesting phase diagram when the non-trivial topological $\theta$-term is considered. Its lattice regularization…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-11-05 Matteo D'Anna , Marina Krstic Marinkovic , Joao C. Pinto Barros

We present an approach for carrying out non-adiabatic molecular dynamics simulations of systems in which non-adiabatic transitions arise from the coupling between the classical atomic motions and a quasi-continuum of electronic quantum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Jerome Daligault , Dmitry Mozyrsky

Fast quasi-adiabatic driving (FAQUAD) is a central technique in shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA), enabling accelerated adiabatic evolution by optimizing the rate of change of a single control parameter. However, many realistic systems are…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Dong Liu , Yiran Hao , Jensen Li