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The ability to efficiently state-prepare Gaussian distributions is critical to the success of numerous quantum algorithms. The most popular algorithm for this subroutine (Kitaev-Webb) has favorable polynomial resource scaling, however it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Parker Kuklinski , Benjamin Rempfer , Kevin Obenland , Justin Elenewski

This thesis investigates quantum algorithms for eigenstate preparation, with a focus on solving eigenvalue problems such as the Schrodinger equation by utilizing near-term quantum computing devices. These problems are ubiquitous in several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-20 Joey Bonitati

Imaginary-time evolution is fundamental for analyzing quantum many-body systems, yet classical simulation requires exponentially growing resources in both system size and evolution time. While quantum approaches reduce the system-size…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Lei Zhang , Jizhe Lai , Xian Wu , Xin Wang

Preparation of Gibbs distributions is an important task for quantum computation. It is a necessary first step in some types of quantum simulations and further is essential for quantum algorithms such as quantum Boltzmann training. Despite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-04 Anirban N. Chowdhury , Guang Hao Low , Nathan Wiebe

Preparing the ground state of a system is an important task in physics. We propose a quantum algorithm for preparing the ground state of a physical system that can be simulated on a quantum computer. The system is coupled to an ancillary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-14 Hefeng Wang

A bang-bang (BB) algorithm prepares the ground state of a two-dimensional (2D) quantum many-body Hamiltonian $H=H_1+H_2$ by evolving an initial product state alternating between $H_1$ and $H_2$. We use the neighborhood tensor update to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Yintai Zhang , Jacek Dziarmaga

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

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

We present a protocol to store a polynomial number of arbitrary bit strings, encoded as spin configurations, in the approximately degenerate low-energy manifold of an all-to-all connected Ising spin glass. The iterative protocol is inspired…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-29 Clemens Dlaska , Lukas M. Sieberer , Wolfgang Lechner

Quantum phase transitions materialize as level crossings in the ground-state energy when the parameters of the Hamiltonian are varied. The resulting ground-state phase diagrams are straightforward to determine by exact diagonalization on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 Akhil Francis , Ephrata Zelleke , Ziyue Zhang , Alexander F. Kemper , J. K. Freericks

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 study two different methods to prepare excited states on a quantum computer, a key initial step to study dynamics within linear response theory. The first method uses unitary evolution for a short time $T=\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{1-F})$ to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Alessandro Roggero , Chenyi Gu , Alessandro Baroni , Thomas Papenbrock

Given a quantum Hamiltonian and its evolution time, the corresponding unitary evolution operator can be constructed in many different ways, corresponding to different trajectories between the desired end-points and different series…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-14 Apoorva Patel , Anjani Priyadarsini

Preparing quantum states is a fundamental task in various quantum algorithms. In particular, state preparation in quantum harmonic oscillators (HOs) is crucial for the creation of qudits and the implementation of high-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Nicolas Parra-A , Vladimir Vargas-Calderón , Herbert Vinck-Posada

Variational Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution (VQITE) is a leading technique for ground state preparation on quantum computers. A significant computational challenge of VQITE is the determination of the quantum geometric tensor. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Aeishah Ameera Anuar , Francois Jamet , Fabio Gironella , Fedor Simkovic , Riccardo Rossi

We propose applying the adiabatic algorithm to prepare high-energy eigenstates of integrable models on a quantum computer. We first review the standard adiabatic algorithm to prepare ground states in each magnetization sector of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Maximilian Lutz , Lorenzo Piroli , Georgios Styliaris , J. Ignacio Cirac

We show that optimal control of the electron dynamics is able to prepare molecular ground states, within chemical accuracy, with evolution times approaching the bounds imposed by quantum mechanics. We propose a specific parameterization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Davide Castaldo , Marta Rosa , Stefano Corni

We introduce a quantum algorithm to efficiently prepare states with a small energy variance at the target energy. We achieve it by filtering a product state at the given energy with a Lorentzian filter of width $\delta$. Given a local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 Reinis Irmejs , Mari Carmen Bañuls , J. Ignacio Cirac

Preparing the ground state of a local Hamiltonian is a crucial problem in understanding quantum many-body systems, with applications in a variety of physics fields and connections to combinatorial optimization. While various quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Benjamin F. Schiffer , Jordi Tura

We propose a class of randomized quantum Krylov diagonalization (rQKD) algorithms capable of solving the eigenstate estimation problem with modest quantum resource requirements. Compared to previous real-time evolution quantum Krylov…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Nicholas H. Stair , Cristian L. Cortes , Robert M. Parrish , Jeffrey Cohn , Mario Motta