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This work on gap acceptance is based on the premise that the decision to accept/reject a gap happens in a person's mind and therefore must be based on the perceived gap and not the measured gap. The critical gap must also exist in a…

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The energy gap is calculated for the ground state quantum computer circuit, which was recently proposed by Mizel et.al. When implementing a quantum algorithm by Hamiltonians containing only pairwise interaction, the inverse of energy gap…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wenjin Mao

An intrinsic measure of the quality of a variational wave function is given by its overlap with the ground state of the system. We derive a general formula to compute this overlap when quantum dynamics in imaginary time is accessible. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-07-26 Christophe Mora , Xavier Waintal

Quantum simulation advantage over classical memory limitations would allow compact quantum circuits to yield insight into intractable quantum many-body problems, but the interrelated obstacles of large circuit depth in quantum time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-02 Woo-Ram Lee , Ryan Scott , V. W. Scarola

Estimating the eigenvalue or energy gap of a Hamiltonian H is vital for studying quantum many-body systems. Particularly, many of the problems in quantum chemistry, condensed matter physics, and nuclear physics investigate the energy gap…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-22 Yongdan Yang , Ying Li , Xiaosi Xu , Xiao Yuan

We use the Gaussian Phase-Space Representation to solve the real-time dynamic of interacting fermions in 1D, 2D, and 3D systems. The method is exact up to a spiking point, which represents a limit on the practical simulation time. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 F Rousse , M Fasi , A Dmytryshyn , M Gulliksson , J F Corney , M Ogren

In this work, using a NISQ framework, we obtain the gap of a BCS Hamiltonian. This could lead to interesting implications for superconductivity research. For such task, we choose to use the Variational Quantum Deflation and analyze the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-02 Nahum Sá , Ivan S. Oliveira , Itzhak Roditi

Determining the energy gap in a quantum many-body system is critical to understanding its behavior and is important in quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics. The challenge of determining the energy gap requires identifying both the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Mengzhen Ren , Yu-Cheng Chen , Ching-Jui Lai , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Alice Hu

We prove an analytical expression for the size of the gap between the ground and the first excited state of quantum adiabatic algorithm for the 3-satisfiability, where the initial Hamiltonian is a projector on the subspace complementary to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Marko Znidaric , Martin Horvat

Quantum chemistry is one of the important applications of quantum information technology. Especially, an estimation of the energy gap between a ground state and excited state of a target Hamiltonian corresponding to a molecule is essential.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Hideaki Hakoshima , Kenji Sugisaki , Yuya Seki , Shiro Kawabata

Recently a method for adiabatic quantum computation has been proposed and there has been considerable speculation about its efficiency for NP-complete problems. Heuristic arguments in its favor are based on the unproven assumption of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mary Beth Ruskai

Imaginary-time evolution, an important technique in tensor network and quantum Monte Carlo algorithms on classical computers, has recently been adapted to quantum computing. In this study, we focus on probabilistic imaginary-time evolution…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-27 Satoshi Ejima , Kazuhiro Seki , Benedikt Fauseweh , Seiji Yunoki

Many-body entangled quantum states studied in condensed matter physics can be primary resources for quantum information, allowing any quantum computation to be realized using measurements alone, on the state. Such a universal state would be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Xie Chen , Bei Zeng , Zhengcheng Gu , Beni Yoshida , Isaac L. Chuang

We calculate the energy levels and corresponding eigenstates of an interacting scalar quantum field theory on a lattice using a continuous-variable version of the quantum imaginary time evolution algorithm. Only a single qumode is needed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Kübra Yeter-Aydeniz , Eleftherios Moschandreou , George Siopsis

Different approaches to quantum gravity generally predict that the dimension of spacetime at the fundamental level is not 4. The principal tool to measure how the dimension changes between the IR and UV scales of the theory is the spectral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-07 Michał Eckstein , Tomasz Trześniewski

To understand quantum optics experiments, we must perform calculations that consider the principal sources of noise, such as losses, spectral impurity and partial distinguishability. In both discrete and continuous variable systems, these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Jacob F. F. Bulmer , Javier Martínez-Cifuentes , Bryn A. Bell , Nicolás Quesada

We compute the spectral form factor of two integrable quantum-critical many body systems in one spatial dimension. The spectral form factor of the quantum Ising chain is periodic in time in the scaling limit described by a conformal field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-09 Nivedita , Leyna Shackleton , Subir Sachdev

We investigate a recently proposed one-to-one correspondence between quantum field theories in two-dimensional curved spacetime and quantum many-body systems, which enables the simulation of Hawking radiation in static background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-08 Gokhan Alkac , Ege Özgün

In this work, we develop a mathematical framework to model a quantum system whose Hamiltonian may depend on the state of changing environment, that evolves according to a Markovian process. When the environment changes its state, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-17 Henryk Gzyl

Imaginary time evolution is a powerful tool applied in quantum physics, while existing classical algorithms for simulating imaginary time evolution suffer high computational complexity as the quantum systems become larger and more complex.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Hao-Nan Xie , Shi-Jie Wei , Fan Yang , Zheng-An Wang , Chi-Tong Chen , Heng Fan , Gui-Lu Long