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We introduce and study the adiabatic dynamics of free-fermion models subject to a local Lindblad bath and in the presence of a time-dependent Hamiltonian. The merit of these models is that they can be solved exactly, and will help us to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-20 Maximilian Keck , Simone Montangero , Giuseppe E. Santoro , Rosario Fazio , Davide Rossini

Obtaining the free energies of condensed phase chemical reactions remains computationally prohibitive for high-level quantum mechanical methods. We introduce a hierarchical machine learning framework that bridges this gap by distilling…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Chenghan Li , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

This paper concerns a first-order algorithmic technique for a class of optimal control problems defined on switched-mode hybrid systems. The salient feature of the algorithm is that it avoids the computation of Fr\'echet or G\^ateaux…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-13 Yorai Wardi , Magnus Egerstedt , Muhammad Umer Qureshi

The adiabatic quantum algorithm has drawn intense interest as a potential approach to accelerating optimization tasks using quantum computation. The algorithm is most naturally realised in systems which support Hamiltonian evolution, rather…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Liming Zhao , Carlos A. Perez-Delgado , Simon C. Benjamin , Joseph F. Fitzsimons

Learning a many-body Hamiltonian from its dynamics is a fundamental problem in physics. In this work, we propose the first algorithm to achieve the Heisenberg limit for learning an interacting $N$-qubit local Hamiltonian. After a total…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Hsin-Yuan Huang , Yu Tong , Di Fang , Yuan Su

We propose a quantum algorithm to compute low-energy expectation values of a quantum Hamiltonian by sampling a partition function associated with the average energy of that Hamiltonian. For any given quantum circuit-Hamiltonian pair, there…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Judah F. Unmuth-Yockey

We describe a time evolution algorithm for quantum spin chains whose Hamiltonians are composed of an infinite uniform left and right bulk part, and an arbitrary finite region in between. The left and right bulk parts are allowed to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-21 Yantao Wu

Predicting observables in equilibrium states is a central yet notoriously hard question in quantum many-body systems. In the physically relevant thermodynamic limit, certain mathematical formulations of this task have even been shown to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi , Samuel O. Scalet

Local Hamiltonians arise naturally in physical systems. Despite its seemingly `simple' local structure, exotic features such as nonlocal correlations and topological orders exhibit in eigenstates of these systems. Previous studies for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-30 Shi-Yao Hou , Ningping Cao , Sirui Lu , Yi Shen , Yiu-Tung Poon , Bei Zeng

We present a novel method to simulate the Lindblad equation, drawing on the relationship between Lindblad dynamics, stochastic differential equations, and Hamiltonian simulations. We derive a sequence of unitary dynamics in an enlarged…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Zhiyan Ding , Xiantao Li , Lin Lin

We present a quantum algorithm for the dynamical simulation of time-dependent Hamiltonians. Our method involves expanding the interaction-picture Hamiltonian as a sum of generalized permutations, which leads to an integral-free Dyson series…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Yi-Hsiang Chen , Amir Kalev , Itay Hen

We provide a general method for efficiently simulating time-dependent Hamiltonian dynamics on a circuit-model based quantum computer. Our approach is based on approximating the truncated Dyson series of the evolution operator, extending the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Maria Kieferova , Artur Scherer , Dominic Berry

Hamiltonian learning protocols are essential tools to benchmark quantum computers and simulators. Yet rigorous methods for time-dependent Hamiltonians and Lindbladians remain scarce despite their wide use. We close this gap by learning the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Daniel Stilck França , Tim Möbus , Cambyse Rouzé , Albert H. Werner

Iterative phase estimation has long been used in quantum computing to estimate Hamiltonian eigenvalues. This is done by applying many repetitions of the same fundamental simulation circuit to an initial state, and using statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-25 Ian D. Kivlichan , Christopher E. Granade , Nathan Wiebe

Predicting the stationary behavior of observables in isolated many-body quantum systems is a central challenge in quantum statistical mechanics. While one can often use the Gibbs ensemble, which is simple to compute, there are many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Lodovico Scarpa , Abdulla Alhajri , Vlatko Vedral , Fabio Anza

We present a new machine learning technique which calculates a real-valued, time independent, finite dimensional Hamiltonian matrix from only experimental data. A novel cost function is given along with a proof that the cost function has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-02 Jordan Burns , David Maughan , Yih Sung

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.…

We investigate, in a fairly general setting, the limit of large volume equilibrium Gibbs measures for elasticity type Hamiltonians with clamped boundary conditions. The existence of a quasiconvex free energy, forming the large deviations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-27 Roman Kotecký , Stephan Luckhaus

We study the Hamiltonian associated with the quantum adiabatic algorithm with a random cost function. Because the cost function lacks structure we can prove results about the ground state. We find the ground state energy as the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-30 Edward Farhi , Jeffrey Goldstone , David Gosset , Sam Gutmann , Peter Shor

Simulating physical systems has been an important application of classical and quantum computers. In this article we present an efficient classical algorithm for simulating time-dependent quantum mechanical Hamiltonians over constant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-30 Reyhaneh Aghaei Saem , Ali Hamed Moosavian