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Quantum simulations of many-body systems offer novel methods for probing the dynamics of the Standard Model and its constituent gauge theories. Extracting low-energy predictions from such simulations rely on formulating…

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Various Hamiltonian simulation algorithms have been proposed to efficiently study the dynamics of quantum systems on a quantum computer. The existing algorithms generally approximate the time evolution operators, which may need a deep…

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We develop a fourth-order Magnus expansion based quantum algorithm for the simulation of many-body problems involving two-level quantum systems with time-dependent Hamiltonians, $\mathcal{H}(t)$. A major hurdle in the utilization of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Guannan Chen , Mohammadali Foroozandeh , Chris Budd , Pranav Singh

Characterizing quantum phases-of-matter at finite-temperature is essential for understanding complex materials and large-scale thermodynamic phenomena. Here, we develop algorithmic protocols for simulating quantum thermodynamics on quantum…

Simulating non-equilibrium phenomena in strongly-interacting quantum many-body systems, including thermalization, is a promising application of near-term and future quantum computation. By performing experiments on a digital quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Niklas Mueller , Tianyi Wang , Or Katz , Zohreh Davoudi , Marko Cetina

The partition function and free energy of a quantum many-body system determine its physical properties in thermal equilibrium. Here we study the computational complexity of approximating these quantities for $n$-qubit local Hamiltonians.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-22 Sergey Bravyi , Anirban Chowdhury , David Gosset , Pawel Wocjan

We introduce a Hamiltonian-based quantum feature extraction method that generates complex features via the dynamics of $k$-local many-body spins Hamiltonians, enhancing machine learning performance. Classical feature vectors are embedded…

A major motivation for building a quantum computer is that it provides a tool to efficiently simulate strongly correlated quantum systems. In this work, we present a detailed roadmap on how to simulate a two-dimensional electron…

Simulation of materials is one of the most promising applications of quantum computers. On near-term hardware the crucial constraint on these simulations is circuit depth. Many quantum simulation algorithms rely on a layer of unitary…

Quantum simulations of lattice gauge theories for the foreseeable future will be hampered by limited resources. The historical success of improved lattice actions in classical simulations strongly suggests that Hamiltonians with improved…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-08-23 Marcela Carena , Henry Lamm , Ying-Ying Li , Wanqiang Liu

Quantum computers can efficiently simulate highly entangled quantum systems, offering a solution to challenges facing classical simulation of Quantum Field Theories (QFTs). This paper presents an alternative to traditional methods for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 James Ingoldby , Michael Spannowsky , Timur Sypchenko , Simon Williams

The simulation of quantum systems has been a key aim of quantum technologies for decades, and the generalisation to open systems is necessary to include physically realistic systems. We introduce an approach for quantum simulations of open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-14 Benjamin Dive , Florian Mintert , Daniel Burgarth

We introduce a new class of generative quantum-neural-network-based models called Quantum Hamiltonian-Based Models (QHBMs). In doing so, we establish a paradigmatic approach for quantum-probabilistic hybrid variational learning, where we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-07 Guillaume Verdon , Jacob Marks , Sasha Nanda , Stefan Leichenauer , Jack Hidary

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

Simulating quantum dynamics is one of the most important applications of quantum computers. Traditional approaches for quantum simulation involve preparing the full evolved state of the system and then measuring some physical quantity.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Rolando D. Somma , Robbie King , Robin Kothari , Thomas O'Brien , Ryan Babbush

We consider measurement-based quantum computation using the state of a spin-lattice system in equilibrium with a thermal bath and free to evolve under its own Hamiltonian. Any single qubit measurements disturb the system from equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-23 David Jennings , Andrzej Dragan , Sean D. Barrett , Stephen D. Bartlett , Terry Rudolph

We show that it is possible to uniquely reconstruct a generic many-body local Hamiltonian from a single pair of initial and final states related by time evolution with the Hamiltonian. We then propose a practical version of the protocol…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Zhi Li , Liujun Zou , Timothy H. Hsieh

Simulating the nonequilibrium dynamics of thermal states is a fundamental problem across scales from high energy to condensed matter physics. Quantum computers may provide a way to solve this problem efficiently. Preparing a thermal state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-03 Jason Saroni , Henry Lamm , Peter P. Orth , Thomas Iadecola

We establish a connection between ground states of local quantum Hamiltonians and thermal states of classical spin systems. For any discrete classical statistical mechanical model in any spatial dimension, we find an associated quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-05 W. Dür , M. Van den Nest

The development of novel quantum many-body computational algorithms relies on robust benchmarking. However, generating such benchmarks is often hindered by the massive computational resources required for exact diagonalization or quantum…

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