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The preparation of the ground state of a Hamiltonian $H$ with a large spectral radius has applications in many areas such as electronic structure theory and quantum field theory. Given an initial state with a constant overlap with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Yulong Dong , Lin Lin

Estimating observable expectation values in eigenstates of quantum systems has a broad range of applications and is an area where early fault-tolerant quantum computers may provide practical quantum advantage. We develop a hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Bence Bakó , Tenzan Araki , Bálint Koczor

The preparation of tensor network states is a fundamental prerequisite for a wide range of quantum simulation tasks. While many unitary protocols for preparing these states have been investigated, dissipative state preparation provides a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Drishti Baruah , Georgios Styliaris , J. Ignacio Cirac , Rahul Trivedi

Quantum state preparation lies at the heart of quantum computation and quantum simulations, enabling the investigation of complex manybody systems across physics, chemistry, and data science. While existing methods such as Variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Davide Cugini , Giacomo Guarnieri , Mario Motta , Dario Gerace

Ground-state preparation for a given Hamiltonian is a common quantum-computing task of great importance and has relevant applications in quantum chemistry, computational material modeling, and combinatorial optimization. We consider an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Yu-Qin Chen , Shi-Xin Zhang , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang

Electronic excited states are central to a vast array of physical and chemical phenomena, yet accurate and efficient methods for preparing them on quantum devices remain challenging and comparatively underexplored. We introduce a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Hao-En Li , Lin Lin

Solving for quantum ground states is important for understanding the properties of quantum many-body systems, and quantum computers are potentially well-suited for solving for quantum ground states. Recent work has presented a nearly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Matthew Thibodeau , Bryan K. Clark

The variational approach is a cornerstone of computational physics, considering both conventional and quantum computing computational platforms. The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm aims to prepare the ground state of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-16 Nikita Astrakhantsev , Guglielmo Mazzola , Ivano Tavernelli , Giuseppe Carleo

Linear dissipative differential equation is a fundamental model for a large number of physical systems, such as quantum dynamics with non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, open quantum system dynamics, diffusion process and damped system. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Gengzhi Yang , Akwum Onwunta , Dong An

The quantum phase estimation algorithm stands as the primary method for determining the ground state energy of a molecular electronic Hamiltonian on a quantum computer. In this context, the ability to initialize a classically tractable…

The problem of finding the ground state energy of a Hamiltonian using a quantum computer is currently solved using either the quantum phase estimation (QPE) or variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithms. For precision $\epsilon$, QPE…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-16 Daochen Wang , Oscar Higgott , Stephen Brierley

Variational algorithms for strongly correlated chemical and materials systems are one of the most promising applications of near-term quantum computers. We present an extension to the variational quantum eigensolver that approximates the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 William J. Huggins , Joonho Lee , Unpil Baek , Bryan O'Gorman , K. Birgitta Whaley

We introduce a simple protocol for measuring properties of a gapped ground state with essentially no disturbance to the state. The required Hamiltonian evolution time scales inversely with the spectral gap and target precision (up to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Chi-Fang Chen , Robbie King

Recently it was shown that the so-called guided local Hamiltonian problem -- estimating the smallest eigenvalue of a $k$-local Hamiltonian when provided with a description of a quantum state ('guiding state') that is guaranteed to have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Chris Cade , Marten Folkertsma , Jordi Weggemans

Standard quantum state preparation methods work by preparing a required state locally and then distributing it to a distant location by a free-space propagation. We instead study procedures of preparing a target state at a remote location…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-26 Marko Znidaric

We demonstrate a dissipative protocol for ground-state preparation of a quantum spin chain on a trapped-ion quantum computer. As a first step, we derive a Kraus representation of a dissipation channel for the protocol recently proposed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Kazuhiro Seki , Yuta Kikuchi , Tomoya Hayata , Seiji Yunoki

Computing ground states of local Hamiltonians is a fundamental problem in condensed matter physics. We give the first randomized polynomial-time algorithm for finding ground states of gapped one-dimensional Hamiltonians: it outputs an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-22 Zeph Landau , Umesh Vazirani , Thomas Vidick

We describe a quantum algorithm for preparing states that encode solutions of non-homogeneous linear partial differential equations. The algorithm is a continuous-variable version of matrix inversion: it efficiently inverts differential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Juan Miguel Arrazola , Timjan Kalajdzievski , Christian Weedbrook , Seth Lloyd

We investigate the computational power of creating steady-states of quantum dissipative systems whose evolution is governed by time-independent and local couplings to a memoryless environment. We show that such a model allows for efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 Frank Verstraete , Michael M. Wolf , J. Ignacio Cirac

Estimating ground state energies of many-body Hamiltonians is a central task in many areas of quantum physics. In this work, we give quantum algorithms which, given any $k$-body Hamiltonian $H$, compute an estimate for the ground state…