English
Related papers

Related papers: Practical Black Box Hamiltonian Learning

200 papers

This paper proposes Hamiltonian Learning, a novel unified framework for learning with neural networks "over time", i.e., from a possibly infinite stream of data, in an online manner, without having access to future information. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Stefano Melacci , Alessandro Betti , Michele Casoni , Tommaso Guidi , Matteo Tiezzi , Marco Gori

A central challenge in quantum machine learning is the design and training of parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs). Similar to deep learning, vanishing gradients pose immense problems in the trainability of PQCs, which have been shown to…

We consider the task of simulating time evolution under a Hamiltonian $H$ within its low-energy subspace. Assuming access to a block-encoding of $H'=(H-E)/\lambda$ for some $E \in \mathbb R$, the goal is to implement an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Alexander Zlokapa , Rolando D. Somma

We formalize and study the Hamiltonian certification problem. Given access to $e^{-\mathrm{i} Ht}$ for an unknown Hamiltonian $H$, the goal of the problem is to determine whether $H$ is $\varepsilon_1$-close to or $\varepsilon_2$-far from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Minbo Gao , Zhengfeng Ji , Qisheng Wang , Wenjun Yu , Qi Zhao

An isolated system of interacting quantum particles is described by a Hamiltonian operator. Hamiltonian models underpin the study and analysis of physical and chemical processes throughout science and industry, so it is crucial they are…

We introduce a quantum information theory-inspired method to improve the characterization of many-body Hamiltonians on near-term quantum devices. We design a new class of similarity transformations that, when applied as a preprocessing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Andi Gu , Hong-Ye Hu , Di Luo , Taylor L. Patti , Nicholas C. Rubin , Susanne F. Yelin

Efficient characterization of highly entangled multi-particle systems is an outstanding challenge in quantum science. Recent developments have shown that a modest number of randomized measurements suffices to learn many properties of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Katherine Van Kirk , Jordan Cotler , Hsin-Yuan Huang , Mikhail D. Lukin

Quantum computing opens up new possibilities for the simulation of many-body nuclear systems. As the number of particles in a many-body system increases, the size of the space if the associated Hamiltonian increases exponentially. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-19 Isaac Hobday , Paul Stevenson , James Benstead

Efficiently learning an unknown Hamiltonian given access to its dynamics is a problem of interest for quantum metrology, many-body physics and machine learning. A fundamental question is whether learning can be performed at the Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Arjun Mirani , Patrick Hayden

Molecular dynamics simulations use statistical mechanics at the atomistic scale to enable both the elucidation of fundamental mechanisms and the engineering of matter for desired tasks. The behavior of molecular systems at the microscale is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-25 Wujie Wang , Simon Axelrod , Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

We present a general method to efficiently design optimal control sequences for non-Markovian open quantum systems, and illustrate it by optimizing the shape of a laser pulse to prepare a quantum dot in a specific state. The optimization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Gerald E. Fux , Eoin P. Butler , Paul R. Eastham , Brendon W. Lovett , Jonathan Keeling

Learning about physical systems from quantum-enhanced experiments, relying on a quantum memory and quantum processing, can outperform learning from experiments in which only classical memory and processing are available. Whereas quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Matthias C. Caro

One of the key challenges in quantum machine learning is finding relevant machine learning tasks with a provable quantum advantage. A natural candidate for this is learning unknown Hamiltonian dynamics. Here, we tackle the supervised…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Alice Barthe , Mahtab Yaghubi Rad , Michele Grossi , Vedran Dunjko

In this paper we consider the problem of tracking the state of a quantum system via a continuous measurement. If the system Hamiltonian is known precisely, this merely requires integrating the appropriate stochastic master equation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-29 Jason F. Ralph , Kurt Jacobs , Charles D. Hill

Accurate models of quantum processors are essential for understanding, calibrating, and improving their performance. In practice, model construction must balance physical detail against the experimental and computational effort required to…

The past few years have witnessed an increased interest in learning Hamiltonian dynamics in deep learning frameworks. As an inductive bias based on physical laws, Hamiltonian dynamics endow neural networks with accurate long-term…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Zhijie Chen , Mingquan Feng , Junchi Yan , Hongyuan Zha

We provide a novel approach for characterization of quantum Hamiltonian systems via utilizing a single measurement device. Specifically, we demonstrate how external quantum correlations can be used for Hamiltonian identification tasks. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-23 M. Mohseni , A. T. Rezakhani , A. Aspuru-Guzik

We present a strategy to empirically determine the internal and control Hamiltonians for an unknown two-level system (black box) subject to various (piecewise constant) control fields when direct readout by measurement is limited to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 SG Schirmer , A Kolli , DKL Oi

The study of many-body quantum dynamics in strongly-correlated systems is extremely challenging. To date few numerical methods exist which are capable of simulating the non-equilibrium dynamics of two-dimensional quantum systems, in part…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 S. J. Thomson , J. Eisert

Quantum machine learning has emerged as a promising utilization of near-term quantum computation devices. However, algorithmic classes such as variational quantum algorithms have been shown to suffer from barren plateaus due to vanishing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Lukas Broers , Ludwig Mathey