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Conservation of symmetries plays a crucial role in both classical and quantum simulations of many-body systems, enabling the tracking of states with specific symmetry properties and leading to substantial reductions in the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Ilias Magoulas , Francesco A. Evangelista

In quantum systems, a subspace spanned by degenerate eigenvectors of the Hamiltonian may have higher symmetries than those of the Hamiltonian itself. When this enhanced-symmetry group can be generated from local operators, we call it a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-26 Jie Ren , Chenguang Liang , Chen Fang

Differential geometry offers a powerful framework for optimising and characterising finite-time thermodynamic processes, both classical and quantum. Here, we start by a pedagogical introduction to the notion of thermodynamic length. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Paolo Abiuso , Harry J. D. Miller , Martí Perarnau-Llobet , Matteo Scandi

We introduce a phenomenological theory for many-body control of critical phenomena by engineering causally-induced gaps for quantum Hamiltonian systems. The core mechanisms are controlling information flow within and/or between clusters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-22 Masoud Mohseni , Johan Strumpfer , Marek M. Rams

In the age of noisy quantum processors, the exploitation of quantum symmetries can be quite beneficial in the efficient preparation of trial states, an important part of the variational quantum eigensolver algorithm. The benefits include…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Babatunde M. Ayeni

The variational quantum-classical algorithms are the most promising approach for achieving quantum advantage on near-term quantum simulators. Among these methods, the variational quantum eigensolver has attracted a lot of attention in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 Chufan Lyu , Xusheng Xu , Man-Hong Yung , Abolfazl Bayat

We study the performance of quantum thermal machines in which the working fluid of the model is represented by a many-body quantum system that is periodically connected with external baths via local couplings. A formal characterization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Edoardo Maria Centamori , Michele Campisi , Vittorio Giovannetti

We present a method to design driving protocols that achieve fast thermal equilibration of a system of interest using techniques inspired by machine learning training algorithms. For example, consider a Brownian particle manipulated by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-25 Diego Rengifo , Gabriel Téllez

There is widespread interest in many-body quantum systems that exhibit limit-cycle or time-crystalline behaviour. An ideal quantum limit cycle would be realized using fully coherent driving (to minimize noise) and also have a continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Sihan Chen , Aashish A. Clerk

Discovering pragmatic and efficient approaches to construct $\varepsilon$-approximations of quantum operators such as real (imaginary) time-evolution propagators in terms of the basic quantum operations (gates) is challenging. Prior…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Yan Wang , Sarah Chehade , Eugene Dumitrescu

Quantum simulation is a popular application of quantum computing, but its practical realization is hindered by the technical limitations of current devices. In this work, we focus on preprocessing Hamiltonians before Trotterization to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Cédric Ho Thanh

We present a symmetry-enabled direct quantum protocol for computing many-body Green's functions, a central tool for studying strongly correlated quantum systems. Our protocol relies only on native time evolution and straightforward…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Changhao Yi , Cunlu Zhou

One of the main aims in the field of quantum simulation is to achieve a quantum speedup, often referred to as "quantum computational supremacy", referring to the experimental realization of a quantum device that computationally outperforms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 J. Bermejo-Vega , D. Hangleiter , M. Schwarz , R. Raussendorf , J. Eisert

Quantum coherence provides a controllable thermodynamic resource that can raise or lower the effective temperature of a cavity mode, enabling efficiency tuning in quantum heat engines. Here, we derive analytic expressions for the effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Hui Wang , Yusef Maleki , William J. Munro , Marlan O. Scully

Parity-time ($PT$)-symmetric Hamiltonians exhibit non-unitary dynamical evolution while maintaining real spectra, and offer unique approaches to quantum sensing and entanglement generation. Here we present a method for simulating the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Maryam Abbasi , Koray Aydogan , Anthony W. Schlimgen , Kade Head-Marsden

Prethermalization refers to the transient phenomenon where a system thermalizes according to a Hamiltonian that is not the generator of its evolution. We provide here a rigorous framework for quantum spin systems where prethermalization is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-07-11 Dmitry Abanin , Wojciech De Roeck , Wen Wei Ho , Francois Huveneers

We introduce a geometrical framework to construct a large class of time-dependent quantum systems, in which the position of a classical particle moving autonomously on a smooth connected manifold is used to steer a quantum Hamiltonian over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Jihong Wu , Chuan Liu , Daniel Bulmash , Wen Wei Ho

What can one do with a given tunable quantum device? We provide complete symmetry criteria deciding whether some effective target interaction(s) can be simulated by a set of given interactions. Symmetries lead to a better understanding of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 Zoltán Zimborás , Robert Zeier , T. Schulte-Herbrueggen , Daniel Burgarth

Simulations of quantum chemistry and quantum materials are believed to be among the most important potential applications of quantum information processors, but realizing practical quantum advantage for such problems is challenging. Here,…

The application of quantum algorithms to the study of many-particle quantum systems requires the ability to prepare wavefunctions that are relevant in the behavior of the system under study. Hamiltonian symmetries are an important…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Alessandro Carbone , Davide Emilio Galli , Mario Motta , Barbara Jones