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We extend the formalism of pure state thermodynamics to matrix product states. In pure state thermodynamics finite temperature properties of quantum systems are derived without the need of statistical mechanics ensembles, but instead using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-31 Silvano Garnerone

Method of random phase product state (RPPS) is proposed to calculate canonical ensemble average of quantum systems described with matrix product states and also with tensor network states in general. The RPPS method is an extension of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-26 Toshiaki Iitaka

Quantum state tomography (QST) is the gold standard technique for obtaining an estimate for the state of small quantum systems in the laboratory. Its application to systems with more than a few constituents (e.g. particles) soon becomes…

The preparation of thermal states of matter is a crucial task in quantum simulation. In this work, we prove that a recently introduced, efficiently implementable dissipative evolution thermalizes to the Gibbs state in time scaling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Cambyse Rouzé , Daniel Stilck França , Álvaro M. Alhambra

The fabrication, utilisation, and efficiency of quantum technologies rely on a good understanding of quantum thermodynamic properties. Many-body systems are often used as hardware for these quantum devices, but interactions between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-26 Krissia Zawadzki , Amy Skelt , Irene D'Amico

Recent work has deployed linear combinations of unitaries techniques to reduce the cost of fault-tolerant quantum simulations of correlated electron models. Here, we show that one can sometimes improve upon those results with optimized…

We study universal aspects of thermalization induced by Trotterization, a procedure routinely used in gate-based quantum computation. We use the reduced-BCS model -- quantum integrable with a classically integrable mean-field limit -- where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Aniket Patra , Emil A. Yuzbashyan , Boris L. Altshuler , Sergej Flach

Fault-tolerant quantum computing is a promising tool for simulating molecules and materials, but frequently-considered applications require substantial resources, and the gap between hardware capabilities and requirements remains…

The thermodynamic properties of the Shastry-Sutherland model have posed one of the longest-lasting conundrums in frustrated quantum magnetism. Over a wide range on both sides of the quantum phase transition (QPT) from the dimer-product to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-25 Alexander Wietek , Philippe Corboz , Stefan Wessel , Bruce Normand , Frédéric Mila , Andreas Honecker

We present a quantum algorithm for the microcanonical thermal pure quantum (TPQ) method, which has an advantage in evaluating thermodynamic quantities at finite temperatures, by combining with some recently developed techniques derived from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Kaito Mizukami , Akihisa Koga

We present a systematic study of the nested sampling algorithm based on the example of the Potts model. This model, which exhibits a first order phase transition for $q>4$, exemplifies a generic numerical challenge in statistical physics:…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Manuel J. Pfeifenberger , Michael Rumetshofer , Wolfgang von der Linden

Continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo refers to a class of algorithms designed to sample the thermal distribution of a quantum Hamiltonian through exact expansions of the Boltzmann exponential in terms of stochastic trajectories which are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-17 Luke Causer , Konstantinos Sfairopoulos , Jamie F. Mair , Juan P. Garrahan

The problem of sampling outputs of quantum circuits has been proposed as a candidate for demonstrating a quantum computational advantage (sometimes referred to as quantum "supremacy"). In this work, we investigate whether quantum advantage…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Leonardo Novo , Juani Bermejo-Vega , Raúl García-Patrón

Simulating thermal-equilibrium properties at finite temperature is crucial for studying quantum many-body systems. Quantum computers are expected to enable us to simulate large systems at finite temperatures, overcoming challenges faced by…

The simulation of time evolution of large quantum systems is a classically challenging and in general intractable task, making it a promising application for quantum computation. A Trotter-Suzuki approximation yields an implementation…

In this work we propose an approach for implementing time-evolution of a quantum system using product formulas. The quantum algorithms we develop have provably better scaling (in terms of gate complexity and circuit depth) than a naive…

Efficient sampling from ensembles of Hamiltonian cycles is critical for predicting the thermodynamic properties of compact polymers, with applications including modeling protein and RNA folding and designing soft materials. Although…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Davide Rattacaso , Daniel Jaschke , Antonio Trovato , Ilaria Siloi , Simone Montangero

We generalize the thermal pure quantum (TPQ) formulation of statistical mechanics, in such a way that it is applicable to systems whose Hilbert space is infinite dimensional. Assuming particle systems, we construct the grand-canonical TPQ…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-02 Masahiko Hyuga , Sho Sugiura , Kazumitsu Sakai , Akira Shimizu

A measurement-based quantum computer could consist of a local-gapped Hamiltonian system, whose thermal states --at sufficiently low temperature-- are universal resources for the computation. Initialization of the computer would correspond…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 G. H. Aguilar , T. Kolb , D. Cavalcanti , L. Aolita , R. Chaves , S. P. Walborn , P. H. Souto Ribeiro

Quantum dynamics can be simulated on a quantum computer by exponentiating elementary terms from the Hamiltonian in a sequential manner. However, such an implementation of Trotter steps has gate complexity depending on the total Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-15 Guang Hao Low , Yuan Su , Yu Tong , Minh C. Tran