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Quantum imaginary-time evolution (QITE) is a promising tool to prepare thermal or ground states of Hamiltonians, as convergence is guaranteed when the evolved state overlaps with the ground state. However, its implementation using a a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Ioannis Kolotouros , David Joseph , Anand Kumar Narayanan

Quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE) algorithm is one of the most promising variational quantum algorithms (VQAs), bridging the current era of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices and the future of fully fault-tolerant quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Min Chen , Bingzhi Zhang , Quntao Zhuang , Junyu Liu

The imaginary-time evolution method is widely known to be efficient for obtaining the ground state in quantum many-body problems on a classical computer. A recently proposed quantum imaginary-time evolution method (QITE) faces problems of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Hirofumi Nishi , Taichi Kosugi , Yu-ichiro Matsushita

In this paper, we design quantum circuits for the exponential of scaled $n$-qubit Pauli strings using single-qubit rotation gates, Hadamard gate, and CNOT gates. A key result we derive is that any two Pauli-string operators composed of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Rohit Sarma Sarkar , Sabyasachi Chakraborty , Bibhas Adhikari

The current generation of noisy intermediate scale quantum computers introduces new opportunities to study quantum many-body systems. In this paper, we show that quantum circuits can provide a dramatically more efficient representation than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Sheng-Hsuan Lin , Rohit Dilip , Andrew G. Green , Adam Smith , Frank Pollmann

Imaginary Time Evolution (QITE) approximates this evolution on quantum hardware but suffers from high circuit depth and numerous measurements. In this work we introduce Adaptive-time Compressed QITE (ACQ), a novel algorithm that reduces…

In this study, we propose a quantum-classical hybrid scheme for performing orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) using probabilistic imaginary-time evolution (PITE), designed for the era of fault-tolerant quantum computers (FTQC),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Yusuke Nishiya , Hirofumi Nishi , Taichi Kosugi , Yu-ichiro Matsushita

Non-unitary state preparation protocols such as imaginary time evolution (ITE) offer substantial advantages relative to unitary ones, including the ability to prepare certain long-range correlated states more efficiently. Here, we ask…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Aleksei Khindanov , Yongxin Yao , Thomas Iadecola

We propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for solving QUBO problems using an Imaginary Time Evolution-Mimicking Circuit (ITEMC). The circuit parameters are optimized to closely mimic imaginary time evolution, using only single- and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Yahui Chai , Alice Di Tucci

The variational quantum imaginary time evolution (VarQITE) algorithm is a near-term method to prepare the ground state and Gibbs state of Hamiltonians. Finding an appropriate parameterization of the quantum circuit is crucial to the success…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Xiaoyang Wang , Yahui Chai , Maria Demidik , Xu Feng , Karl Jansen , Cenk Tüysüz

We develop a constructive approach to generate quantum neural networks capable of representing the exact thermal states of all many-body qubit Hamiltonians. The Trotter expansion of the imaginary-time propagator is implemented through an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Ermal Rrapaj , Evan Rule

The Schrodinger equation describes how quantum states evolve according to the Hamiltonian of the system. For physical systems, we have it that the Hamiltonian must be a Hermitian operator to ensure unitary dynamics. For anti-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Swagat Kumar , Colin Michael Wilmott

We propose a novel method to sequentially optimize arbitrary single-qubit gates in parameterized quantum circuits for simulating real and imaginary time evolution. The method utilizes full degrees of freedom of single-qubit gates and…

In quantum computing, the efficient optimization of Pauli string decompositions is a crucial aspect for the compilation of quantum circuits for many applications, such as chemistry simulations and quantum machine learning. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Qunsheng Huang , David Winderl , Arianne Meijer-van de Griend , Richie Yeung

Imaginary-time evolution (ITE) is one of the most widely used numerical techniques for obtaining ground states of many-body Hamiltonians. In this work, we compare ITE with gradient descent (GD) within the framework of Gaussian wavefunction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Yash Palan

In designing quantum control, it is generally required to simulate the controlled system evolution with a classical computer. However, computing the time evolution operator can be quite resource-consuming since the total Hamiltonian is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Xiaodong Yang , Xinfang Nie , Yunlan Ji , Tao Xin , Dawei Lu , Jun Li

In this paper, we apply the deterministic quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE) algorithm to obtain the ground state of a $2+1$-dimensional pure $\mathbb{Z}_2$ lattice gauge theory. We first construct the set of Pauli operators commuting…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-29 Minoru Sekiyama , Lento Nagano

Quantum phase estimation (QPE) plays a pivotal role in many quantum algorithms, offering provable speedups in applications such as Shor's factoring algorithm. While fault-tolerant quantum algorithms for combinatorial and Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Nora Bauer , George Siopsis

We propose an iterative variational quantum algorithm to simulate the time evolution of arbitrary initial states within a given subspace. The algorithm compresses the Trotter circuit into a shorter-depth parameterized circuit, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Seung Park , Dongkeun Lee , Jeongho Bang , Hoon Ryu , Kyunghyun Baek

Coupled non-linear Schr\"{o}dinger equations are crucial in describing dynamics of many particle systems. We present a quantum imaginary time evolution (ITE) algorithm as a solution to such equations in the case of nuclear Hartree-Fock…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-02 Yang Hong Li , Jim Al-Khalili , Paul Stevenson