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Preparing algebraically correlated ground states of quantum many-body systems is an important, yet challenging task for quantum simulation. We introduce a protocol that employs local projective measurements and unitary feedback for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Johannes Feldmeier , Yu-Jie Liu , Mikhail D. Lukin , Soonwon Choi

A computation in adiabatic quantum computing is implemented by traversing a path of nondegenerate eigenstates of a continuous family of Hamiltonians. We introduce a method that traverses a discretized form of the path: At each step we apply…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-14 S. Boixo , E. Knill , R. D. Somma

Open quantum systems evolving according to discrete-time dynamics are capable, unlike continuous-time counterparts, to converge to a stable equilibrium in finite time with zero error. We consider dissipative quantum circuits consisting of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-11 Peter D. Johnson , Francesco Ticozzi , Lorenza Viola

The preparation of Hamiltonian eigenstates is essential for many applications in quantum computing; the efficiency with which this can be done is of key interest. A canonical approach exploits the quantum phase estimation (QPE) algorithm.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-05 Richard Meister , Simon C. Benjamin

We propose new quantum algorithms for thermal and ground state preparation based on system-bath interactions. These algorithms require only forward evolution under a system-bath Hamiltonian in which the bath is a single reusable ancilla…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Zhiyan Ding , Yongtao Zhan , John Preskill , Lin Lin

Under suitable assumptions, the algorithms in [Lin, Tong, Quantum 2020] can estimate the ground state energy and prepare the ground state of a quantum Hamiltonian with near-optimal query complexities. However, this is based on a block…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Yulong Dong , Lin Lin , Yu Tong

Approximating ground and a fixed number of excited state energies, or equivalently low order Hamiltonian eigenvalues, is an important but computationally hard problem. Typically, the cost of classical deterministic algorithms grows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-10 Stuart Hadfield , Anargyros Papageorgiou

We consider the task of approximating the ground state energy of two-local quantum Hamiltonians on bounded-degree graphs. Most existing algorithms optimize the energy over the set of product states. Here we describe a family of shallow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Anurag Anshu , David Gosset , Karen J. Morenz Korol , Mehdi Soleimanifar

We describe a protocol for preparing the ground state of a Hamiltonian $H$ on a quantum computer. This is done by designing a quantum algorithm that implements the imaginary time evolution operator: $e^{-\tau H}$. The method relies on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Charles Marteau

Quantum computing offers potential solutions for finding ground states in condensed-matter physics and chemistry. However, achieving effective ground state preparation is also computationally hard for arbitrary Hamiltonians. It is necessary…

The ground state properties of quantum many-body systems are a subject of interest across chemistry, materials science, and physics. Thus, algorithms for finding ground states can have broad impacts. Variational quantum algorithms are one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 James B. Larsen , Matthew D. Grace , Andrew D. Baczewski , Alicia B. Magann

An important aspect of quantum simulation is the preparation of physically interesting states on a quantum computer, and this task can often be costly or challenging to implement. A digital, ``site-by-site'' scheme of state preparation was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-06 Troy Sewell , Aniruddha Bapat , Stephen Jordan

Quantum systems have historically been formidable to simulate using classical computational methods, particularly as the system size grows. In recent years, advancements in quantum computing technology have offered new opportunities for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Jinao Wang , Rimika Jaiswal

We propose a variational framework for solving ground-state problems of open quantum systems governed by quantum stochastic differential equations (QSDEs). This formulation naturally accommodates bosonic operators, as commonly encountered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Yunyan Lee , Ian R. Petersen , Daoyi Dong

In this paper, we explore accelerating Hamiltonian ground state energy calculation on NISQ devices. We suggest using search-based methods together with machine learning to accelerate quantum algorithms, exemplified in the Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Avner Bensoussan , Elena Chachkarova , Karine Even-Mendoza , Sophie Fortz , Connor Lenihan

Significant effort in applied quantum computing has been devoted to the problem of ground state energy estimation for molecules and materials. Yet, for many applications of practical value, additional properties of the ground state must be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Ruizhe Zhang , Guoming Wang , Peter Johnson

Solving the ground state and the ground-state properties of quantum many-body systems is generically a hard task for classical algorithms. For a family of Hamiltonians defined on an $m$-dimensional space of physical parameters, the ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Yanming Che , Clemens Gneiting , Franco Nori

Electronic ground states are of central importance in chemical simulations, but have remained beyond the reach of efficient classical algorithms except in cases of weak electron correlation or one-dimensional spatial geometry. We introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Oskar Leimkuhler , K. Birgitta Whaley

In this work, we give a polynomial-time quantum algorithm for solving the ground states of a class of classically hard Hamiltonians. The mechanism of the exponential speedup that appeared in our algorithm comes from dissipation in open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Zhong-Xia Shang , Zi-Han Chen , Chao-Yang Lu , Jian-Wei Pan , Ming-Cheng Chen

We show that any short-range Hamiltonian with a gap between the ground and excited states can be written as a sum of local operators, such that the ground state is an approximate eigenvector of each operator separately. We then show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-24 M. B. Hastings