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The quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE) algorithm is a direct implementation of the classical imaginary time evolution algorithm on quantum computer. We implement the QITE algorithm for the case of nuclear Hartree-Fock equations in a…

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

As a valid tool for solving ground state problems, imaginary time evolution (ITE) is widely used in physical and chemical simulations. Different ITE-based algorithms in their quantum counterpart have recently been proposed and applied to…

There is increasing interest in quantum algorithms that are based on the imaginary-time evolution (ITE), a successful classical numerical approach to obtain ground states. However, most of the proposals so far require heavy post-processing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-05 Pejman Jouzdani , Calvin W. Johnson , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Ionel Stetcu

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

Many computationally hard problems can be encoded in quantum Hamiltonians. The solution to these problems is given by the ground states of these Hamiltonians. A state-of-the-art algorithm for finding the ground state of a Hamiltonian is the…

The quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE) methodology was developed to overcome a critical issue as regards non-unitarity in the implementation of imaginary time evolution on a quantum computer. QITE has since been used to approximate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 Swagat Kumar , Colin Michael Wilmott

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 study the Schwinger model at finite-temperature regime using a quantum-classical hybrid algorithm. The preparation of thermal state on quantum circuit presents significant challenges. To address this, we adopt the Thermal Pure Quantum…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-11-21 Juan W. Pedersen , Etsuko Itou , Rong-Yang Sun , Seiji Yunoki

We introduce a constructive method for mapping non-unitary dynamics to a weighted set of unitary operations. We utilize this construction to derive a new correspondence between real and imaginary time, which we term Imaginary Time Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Jacob M. Leamer , Alicia B. Magann , Denys I. Bondar , Gerard McCaul

We calculate the energy levels and corresponding eigenstates of an interacting scalar quantum field theory on a lattice using a continuous-variable version of the quantum imaginary time evolution algorithm. Only a single qumode is needed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Kübra Yeter-Aydeniz , Eleftherios Moschandreou , George Siopsis

Imaginary-time evolution, an important technique in tensor network and quantum Monte Carlo algorithms on classical computers, has recently been adapted to quantum computing. In this study, we focus on probabilistic imaginary-time evolution…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-27 Satoshi Ejima , Kazuhiro Seki , Benedikt Fauseweh , Seiji Yunoki

Quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE) is a recently proposed quantum-classical hybrid algorithm that is guaranteed to reach the lowest state of system. In this study, we present several improvements on QITE, mainly focusing on molecular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Takashi Tsuchimochi , Yoohee Ryo , Seiichiro L. Ten-no

The Imaginary Time Step (ITS) method is applied to solve the Dirac equation with the nonlocal potential in coordinate space by the ITS evolution for the corresponding Schr\"odinger-like equation for the upper component. It is demonstrated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-11-02 Ying Zhang , Haozhao Liang , Jie Meng

Most quantum algorithms designed to generate or probe properties of the ground state of a quantum many-body system require as input an initial state with a large overlap with the desired ground state. One approach for preparing such a…

Quantum Imaginary-Time Evolution (QITE) is a powerful method for preparing ground states on quantum hardware. However, executing QITE has costly measurement budgets for general Hamiltonians. Both fidelity and computational cost are strongly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Julio Del Castillo , Mats Granath , Evert van Nieuwenburg

The Hartree-Fock (HF) wave function, commonly used for approximating molecular ground states, becomes nonideal in open shell systems due to the inherent multi-configurational nature of the wave function, limiting accuracy in Quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Pawan Sharma Poudel , Kenji Sugisaki , Michal Hajdušek , Rodney Van Meter

We propose an imaginary time equivalent of the well-established Pauli gadget primitive for Trotter-decomposed real time evolution, using mid-circuit measurements on a single ancilla qubit. Imaginary time evolution (ITE) is widely used for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Chiara Leadbeater , Nathan Fitzpatrick , David Muñoz Ramo , Alex J. W. Thom

Imaginary time evolution is a powerful technique for computing the ground state of quantum Hamiltonians, where the convergence to ground state in asymptotic imaginary time is guaranteed. However, implementing this method on quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 S. Alipour , T. Ojanen

Models of interacting many-body quantum systems that may realize new exotic phases of matter, notably quantum spin liquids, are challenging to study using even state-of-the-art classical methods such as tensor network simulations. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Aaron Szasz , Ed Younis , Wibe Albert de Jong

We develop a resource efficient step-merged quantum imaginary time evolution approach (smQITE) to solve for the ground state of a Hamiltonian on quantum computers. This heuristic method features a fixed shallow quantum circuit depth along…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-21 Niladri Gomes , Feng Zhang , Noah F. Berthusen , Cai-Zhuang Wang , Kai-Ming Ho , Peter P. Orth , Yongxin Yao
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