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The goal of this work is to build a dynamical theory of defects for quantum spin systems. A kinematic theory for an indefinite number of defects is first introduced exploiting distinguishable Fock space. Dynamics are then incorporated by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Jacob C. Bridgeman , Alexander Hahn , Tobias J. Osborne , Ramona Wolf

Recently, a novel bootstrap method for numerical calculations in matrix models and quantum mechanical systems is proposed. We apply the method to certain quantum mechanical systems derived from some well-known local toric Calabi-Yau…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-08 Bao-ning Du , Min-xin Huang , Pei-xuan Zeng

The emergence of a collective behavior in a many-body system is responsible of the quantum criticality separating different phases of matter. Interacting spin systems in a magnetic field offer a tantalizing opportunity to test different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Michele Grossi , Oriel Kiss , Francesco De Luca , Carlo Zollo , Ian Gremese , Antonio Mandarino

Periodic structures are ubiquitous in quantum many-body systems and quantum field theories, ranging from lattice models, compact spaces, to topological phenomena. However, previous bootstrap studies encountered technical challenges even for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-04 Zhijian Huang , Wenliang Li

Determining the solvability of a given quantum mechanical system is generally challenging. We discuss that the numerical bootstrap method can help us to solve this question in one-dimensional quantum mechanics. We show that the bootstrap…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-09 Yu Aikawa , Takeshi Morita

Recently, an application of the numerical bootstrap method to quantum mechanics was proposed, and it successfully reproduces the eigenstates of various systems. However, it is unclear why this method works. In order to understand this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-20 Yu Aikawa , Takeshi Morita , Kota Yoshimura

We implement a bootstrap method that combines stationary state conditions, thermal inequalities, and semidefinite relaxations of matrix logarithm in the ungauged one-matrix quantum mechanics, at finite rank N as well as in the large N…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-28 Minjae Cho , Barak Gabai , Joshua Sandor , Xi Yin

To date, all proposed quantum algorithms for simulating quantum field theory (QFT) simulate (continuous-time) Hamiltonian lattice QFT as a stepping stone. Two overlooked issues are how large we can take the timestep in these simulations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-27 Terry Farrelly , Julien Streich

We apply the method of transitionless quantum driving for time-dependent quantum systems to spin systems. For a given Hamiltonian, the driving Hamiltonian is constructed so that the adiabatic states of the original system obey the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-14 Kazutaka Takahashi

Estimating spectral gaps of quantum many-body Hamiltonians is a highly challenging computational task, even under assumptions of locality and translation-invariance. Yet, the quest for rigorous gap certificates is motivated by their broad…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Kshiti Sneh Rai , Ilya Kull , Patrick Emonts , Jordi Tura , Norbert Schuch , Flavio Baccari

We develop a framework to simulate quantum field theories (QFTs) with boundaries in $(1+1)$-dimenmsional curved spacetimes by employing open spin systems. Building upon our previous work that established a mapping from spin systems to QFTs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-23 Shunichiro Kinoshita , Keiju Murata , Daisuke Yamamoto , Ryosuke Yoshii

General positivity constraints linking various powers of observables in energy eigenstates can be used to sharply locate acceptable regions for the energy eigenvalues, provided that efficient recursive methods are available to calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-22 Zane Ozzello , Yannick Meurice

We develop a novel numerical bootstrap for unitary, crossing-symmetric conformal field theories, focusing on moment observables defined as weighted averages over conformal data. Providing a global and coarse-grained probe of the operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-20 Li-Yuan Chiang , David Poland , Gordon Rogelberg

We explore the space of extremal functionals in the conformal bootstrap. By recasting the bootstrap problem as a set of non-linear equations parameterized by the CFT data, we find an efficient algorithm for converging to the extremal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi

We analyze the bootstrap approach (a dual optimization method to the variational approach) to one-dimensional spin chains, leveraging semidefinite programming to extract numerical results. We study how correlation functions in the ground…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-27 David Berenstein , George Hulsey , P. N. Thomas Lloyd

The global coupling of few-level quantum systems ("spins") to a discrete set of bosonic modes is a key ingredient for many applications in quantum science, including large-scale entanglement generation, quantum simulation of the dynamics of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-12-07 Michael L. Wall , Arghavan Safavi-Naini , Ana Maria Rey

We propose a novel approach to study conformal field theories (CFTs) in general dimensions. In the conformal bootstrap program, one usually searches for consistent CFT data that satisfy crossing symmetry. In the new approach, we reverse the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-19 Wenliang Li

Recent work has shown that quantum simulation is a valuable tool for learning empirical models for quantum systems. We build upon these results by showing that a small quantum simulators can be used to characterize and learn control models…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-01 Nathan Wiebe , Christopher Granade , David G. Cory

We present a new computational framework combining coarse-graining techniques with bootstrap methods to study quantum many-body systems. The method efficiently computes rigorous upper and lower bounds on both zero- and finite-temperature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-25 Minjae Cho , Colin Oscar Nancarrow , Petar Tadić , Yuan Xin , Zechuan Zheng

We extend molecular bootstrap embedding to make it appropriate for implementation on a quantum computer. This enables solution of the electronic structure problem of a large molecule as an optimization problem for a composite Lagrangian…