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Reconstructing a system Hamiltonian through measurements on its eigenstates is an important inverse problem in quantum physics. Recently, it was shown that generic many-body local Hamiltonians can be recovered by local measurements without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-14 Chenfeng Cao , Shi-Yao Hou , Ningping Cao , Bei Zeng

Quantum simulators with hundreds of qubits and engineerable Hamiltonians have the potential to explore quantum many-body models that are intractable for classical computers. However, learning the simulated Hamiltonian, a prerequisite for…

Efficiently learning an unknown Hamiltonian given access to its dynamics is a problem of interest for quantum metrology, many-body physics and machine learning. A fundamental question is whether learning can be performed at the Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Arjun Mirani , Patrick Hayden

In this work, we study the problems of certifying and learning quantum Ising Hamiltonians. Our main contributions are as follows: Certification of Ising Hamiltonians. We show that certifying an Ising Hamiltonian in normalized Frobenius norm…

The locality of thermal quantum states has emerged as a key input for applications to thermalization, response theory, and efficient simulability. Locality is either captured by the decay of correlations or by local indistinguishability,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Arka Adhikari , Joscha Henheik , Marius Lemm , Tom Wessel

The calculation of ground-state energies of physical systems can be formalised as the k-local Hamiltonian problem, which is the natural quantum analogue of classical constraint satisfaction problems. One way of making the problem more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-29 Toby Cubitt , Ashley Montanaro

The Double Green Function Formalism has been extensively used in dealing with the thermodynamics of quantum systems which evolved in time under the action of a given self-adjoint Hamiltonian. In this work, we extend the formalism to include…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-27 Romina Ramírez , Marta Reboiro

It is natural to measure the observables from the Hamiltonian-based quantum dynamics, and its inverse process that Hamiltonians are estimated from the measured data also is a vital topic. In this work, we propose a recurrent neural network…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Liangyu Che , Chao Wei , Yulei Huang , Dafa Zhao , Shunzhong Xue , Xinfang Nie , Jun Li , Dawei Lu , Tao Xin

This work is concerned with thermal quantum states of Hamiltonians on spin and fermionic lattice systems with short range interactions. We provide results leading to a local definition of temperature, thereby extending the notion of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-04 M. Kliesch , C. Gogolin , M. J. Kastoryano , A. Riera , J. Eisert

The preparation of thermal states of matter is a crucial task in quantum simulation. In this work, we prove that a recently introduced, efficiently implementable dissipative evolution thermalizes to the Gibbs state in time scaling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Cambyse Rouzé , Daniel Stilck França , Álvaro M. Alhambra

Estimating extensive combinations of local parameters in distributed quantum systems is a central problem in quantum sensing, with applications ranging from magnetometry to timekeeping. While optimal strategies are known for sensing…

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

The local Hamiltonian problem consists of estimating the ground-state energy (given by the minimum eigenvalue) of a local quantum Hamiltonian. First, we show the existence of a good product-state approximation for the ground-state energy of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 Fernando G. S. L. Brandão , Aram W. Harrow

The physics of a closed quantum mechanical system is governed by its Hamiltonian. However, in most practical situations, this Hamiltonian is not precisely known, and ultimately all there is are data obtained from measurements on the system.…

Estimating local observables in Gibbs states is a central problem in quantum simulation. While this task is BQP-complete at asymptotically low temperatures, the possibility of quantum advantage at constant temperature remains open. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Alexander Zlokapa

The characterization of Hamiltonians and other components of open quantum dynamical systems plays a crucial role in quantum computing and other applications. Scientific machine learning techniques have been applied to this problem in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Peter Sentz , Stanley Nicholson , Yujin Cho , Sohail Reddy , Brendan Keith , Stefanie Günther

A central challenge in quantum simulation is to prepare low-energy states of strongly interacting many-body systems. In this work, we study the problem of preparing a quantum state that optimizes a random all-to-all, sparse or dense, spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 Joao Basso , Chi-Fang Chen , Alexander M. Dalzell

Recovering an unknown Hamiltonian from measurements is an increasingly important task for certification of noisy quantum devices and simulators. Recent works have succeeded in recovering the Hamiltonian of an isolated quantum system with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-24 Eyal Bairey , Itai Arad , Netanel H. Lindner

We show how to apply the quantum adiabatic algorithm directly to the quantum computation of molecular properties. We describe a procedure to map electronic structure Hamiltonians to 2-local qubit Hamiltonians with a small set of physically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-20 Ryan Babbush , Peter J. Love , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

We present a general protocol for estimating $M$ observables from only $\mathcal{O}(\log (M)/\varepsilon^2)$ copies of a Gibbs state whose Hamiltonian is accessible. The protocol uses single-copy, nonadaptive measurements and uses a total…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Chi-Fang Chen , András Gilyén