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Simulation of a quantum many-body system at finite temperatures is crucially important but quite challenging. Here we present an experimentally feasible quantum algorithm assisted with continuous-variable for simulating quantum systems at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Dan-Bo Zhang , Guo-Qing Zhang , Zheng-Yuan Xue , Shi-Liang Zhu , Z. D. Wang

We introduce a finite-time protocol that thermalizes a quantum harmonic oscillator, initially in its ground state, without requiring a macroscopic bath. The method uses a second oscillator as an effective environment and implements sudden…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 M. Harinarayanan , Karthik Rajeev

Variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is an appealing candidate for the application of near-term quantum computers. A technique introduced in [Higgot et al., Quantum 3, 156 (2019)], which is named variational quantum deflation (VQD), has…

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

A programmable quantum device that has a large number of qubits without fault-tolerance has emerged recently. Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is one of the most promising ways to utilize the computational power of such devices to…

Critical phenomena at finite temperature underpin a broad range of physical systems, yet their study remains challenging due to computational bottlenecks near phase transitions. Quantum annealers have attracted significant interest as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-11 Gianluca Teza , Francesco Campaioli , Marco Avesani , Oren Raz

We propose a protocol for effectively implementing complex-balanced thermalization via Markovian processes on a quantum-circuit platform that couples the system with engineered reservoir qubits. The non-orthogonality of qubit eigenstates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Yiting Mao , Peigeng Zhong , Haiqing Lin , Xiaoqun Wang , Shijie Hu

In this work, we study the pairing Hamiltonian with four particles at finite temperatures on a quantum simulator and a superconducting quantum computer. The excited states are obtained by the variational quantum deflation (VQD). The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Chongji Jiang , Junchen Pei

We put forth a quantum simulation of a stroboscopic two-stroke thermal engine in the IBMQ processor. The system consists of a quantum spin chain connected to two baths at their boundaries, prepared at different temperatures using the…

Variational quantum algorithms exploit the features of superposition and entanglement to optimize a cost function efficiently by manipulating the quantum states. They are suitable for noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Yunya Liu , Jiakun Liu , Jordan R. Raney , Pai Wang

Current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices remain limited in their ability to perform accurate quantum chemistry simulations due to restricted numbers of high-fidelity qubits and short coherence times. To overcome these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Yuhan Zheng , Yibin Guo , Huili Zhang , Jie Liu , Xiongzhi Zeng , Xiaoxia Cai , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang

Quantum computers have the potential to deliver speed-ups for solving certain important problems that are intractable for classical counterparts, making them a promising avenue for advancing modern computation. However, many quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Kang-Min Hu , Min Namkung , Hyang-Tag Lim

Quantum variational algorithms (QVAs) are increasingly potent tools for simulating quantum many-body systems on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. This work examines the application of the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-28 Dhritimalya Roy , Somnath Nag

Variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is an efficient classical-quantum hybrid method to take advantage of quantum computers in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era. In this work we test the performance of VQE by studying the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-09 Yuheng Guo , Mingpu Qin

The computation of thermal properties of quantum many-body systems is a central challenge in our understanding of quantum mechanics. We introduce the Quantum Finite Temperature Lanczos Method (QFTLM), which extends the finite-temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Gian Gentinetta , Friederike Metz , William Kirby , Giuseppe Carleo

We study the relaxation of a quantum system towards the thermal equilibrium using tools developed within the context of quantum information theory. We consider a model in which the system is a qubit, and reaches equilibrium after several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Valerio Scarani , Mario Ziman , Peter Stelmachovic , Nicolas Gisin , Vladimir Buzek

Quantum thermal devices which can manage heat as their electronic analogues for the electronic currents have attracted increasing attention. Here a three-terminal quantum thermal device is designed by three coupling qubits interacting with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Bao-qing Guo , Tong Liu , Chang-shui Yu

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a promising quantum algorithm for applications in chemistry within the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era. The ability for a quantum computer to simulate electronic structures with high…

The recent advancement of quantum computer hardware offers the potential to simulate quantum many-body systems beyond the capability of its classical counterparts. However, most current works focus on simulating the ground-state properties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Chee Kong Lee , Shi-Xin Zhang , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang , Liang Shi

We propose a configuration of a single three-level quantum emitter embedded in a non-equilibrium steady electromagnetic environment, able to stabilize and control the local temperatures of a target system it interacts with, consisting of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Bruno Leggio , Pierre Doyeux , Riccardo Messina , Mauro Antezza