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Gradient descent is a fundamental algorithm in both theory and practice for continuous optimization. Identifying its quantum counterpart would be appealing to both theoretical and practical quantum applications. A conventional approach to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Jiaqi Leng , Ethan Hickman , Joseph Li , Xiaodi Wu

A common requirement of quantum simulations and algorithms is the preparation of complex states through sequences of 2-qubit gates. For a generic quantum state, the number of gates grows exponentially with the number of qubits, becoming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Matan Ben Dov , David Shnaiderov , Adi Makmal , Emanuele G. Dalla Torre

In this work we investigate methods to improve the efficiency and scalability of quantum algorithms for quantum chemistry applications. We propose a transformation of the electronic structure Hamiltonian in the second quantization framework…

Imaginary-time evolution is fundamental for analyzing quantum many-body systems, yet classical simulation requires exponentially growing resources in both system size and evolution time. While quantum approaches reduce the system-size…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Lei Zhang , Jizhe Lai , Xian Wu , Xin Wang

A general time-dependent quantum system can be driven fast from its initial ground state to its final ground state without generating transitions by adding a steering term to the Hamiltonian. We show how this technique can be modified to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 A. Barış Özgüler , Robert Joynt , Maxim G. Vavilov

We study the approximate state preparation problem on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers by applying a genetic algorithm to generate quantum circuits for state preparation. The algorithm can account for the specific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Tom Rindell , Berat Yenilen , Niklas Halonen , Arttu Pönni , Ilkka Tittonen , Matti Raasakka

Preparation of a target quantum many-body state on quantum simulators is one of the significant steps in quantum science and technology. With a small number of qubits, a few quantum states, such as the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 Donggyu Kim , Eun-Gook Moon

Reliable preparation of many-body ground states is an essential task in quantum computing, with applications spanning areas from chemistry and materials modeling to quantum optimization and benchmarking. A variety of approaches have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Ricard Puig , Berta Casas , Alba Cervera-Lierta , Zoë Holmes , Adrián Pérez-Salinas

Eigenstate filters underpin near-optimal quantum algorithms for ground state preparation. Their realization on current quantum computers, however, poses a challenge as the filters are typically represented by deep quantum circuits.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Erenay Karacan , Conor Mc Keever , Michael Foss-Feig , David Hayes , Michael Lubasch

We initiate the study of online quantum state tomography (QST), where the matrix representation of an unknown quantum state is reconstructed by sequentially performing a batch of measurements and updating the state estimate using only the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Jian-Feng Cai , Yuling Jiao , Yinan Li , Xiliang Lu , Jerry Zhijian Yang , Juntao You

In quantum algorithms discovered so far for simulating scattering processes in quantum field theories, state preparation is the slowest step. We present a new algorithm for preparing particle states to use in simulation of Fermionic Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-25 Ali Hamed Moosavian , Stephen Jordan

Quantum algorithms for unstructured search problems rely on the preparation of a uniform superposition, traditionally achieved through Hadamard gates. However, this incidentally creates an auxiliary search space consisting of nonsensical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Mark Ariel Levin

Quantum algorithms are promising candidates for the enhancement of computational efficiency for a variety of computational tasks, allowing for the numerical study of physical systems intractable to classical computers. In the Noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-13 Marco Majland , Nikolaj Thomas Zinner

Ground-state preparation is a fundamental task in quantum simulation, because the overlap of the prepared state with the true ground state significantly affects the overall cost of subsequent quantum algorithms. We propose a three-stage…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Masari Watanabe , Hirofumi Nishi , Taichi Kosugi , Shinji Tsuneyuki , Yu-ichiro Matsushita

We devise a quantum-circuit algorithm to solve the ground state and ground energy of artificial graphene. The algorithm implements a Trotterized adiabatic evolution from a purely tight-binding Hamiltonian to one including kinetic,…

Variational hybrid quantum-classical algorithms are promising candidates for near-term implementation on quantum computers. In these algorithms, a quantum computer evaluates the cost of a gate sequence (with speedup over classical cost…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-27 Ryan LaRose , Arkin Tikku , Étude O'Neel-Judy , Lukasz Cincio , Patrick J. Coles

An adiabatic quantum algorithm is essentially given by three elements: An initial Hamiltonian with known ground state, a problem Hamiltonian whose ground state corresponds to the solution of the given problem and an evolution schedule such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Davide Pastorello , Enrico Blanzieri

We propose a state-specific orbital optimization scheme for improving the accuracy of excited states of the electronic structure Hamiltonian for the use on near-term quantum computers, which can be combined with any overlap-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Guorui Zhu , Joel Bierman , Jianfeng Lu , Yingzhou Li

We develop a resource efficient method by which the ground-state of an arbitrary k-local, optimization Hamiltonian can be encoded as the ground-state of a (k-1)-local optimization Hamiltonian. This result is important because adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Ryan Babbush , Bryan O'Gorman , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

A bang-bang (BB) algorithm prepares the ground state of a two-dimensional (2D) quantum many-body Hamiltonian $H=H_1+H_2$ by evolving an initial product state alternating between $H_1$ and $H_2$. We use the neighborhood tensor update to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Yintai Zhang , Jacek Dziarmaga