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Accurately solving the Schr\"odinger equation remains a central challenge in computational physics, chemistry, and materials science. Here, we propose an alternative eigenvalue problem based on a system's autocorrelation function, avoiding…

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Quantum computing has the potential to transform simulations of quantum many-body problems at the heart of electronic structure theory. Efficient quantum algorithms to compute the eigenstates of fermionic Hamiltonians, such as quantum phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Hugh G. A. Burton , Maria-Andreea Filip

We propose a distinct approach to solving linear and nonlinear differential equations (DEs) on quantum computers by encoding the problem into ground states of effective Hamiltonian operators. Our algorithm relies on constructing such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Hsin-Yu Wu , Annie E. Paine , Evan Philip , Antonio A. Gentile , Oleksandr Kyriienko

Quantum state preparation is an important class of quantum algorithms that is employed as a black-box subroutine in many algorithms, or used by itself to generate arbitrary probability distributions. We present a novel state preparation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Yutaro Iiyama

Analog models of quantum information processing, such as adiabatic quantum computation and analog quantum simulation, require the ability to subject a system to precisely specified Hamiltonians. Unfortunately, the hardware used to implement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 Kevin C. Young , Robin Blume-Kohout , Daniel A. Lidar

Imaginary-time evolution plays an important role in algorithms for computing ground-state and thermal equilibrium properties of quantum systems, but can be challenging to simulate on classical computers. Many quantum algorithms for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Annie Ray , Esha Swaroop , Ningping Cao , Michael Vasmer , Anirban Chowdhury

Quantum algorithms require accurate representations of electronic states on a quantum device, yet the approximation of electronic wave functions for strongly correlated systems remains a profound theoretical challenge, with existing methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Dipanjali Halder , Dibyendu Mondal , Rahul Maitra

Quantum devices are affected by intrinsic and environmental noises. An in-depth characterization of noise effects is essential for exploiting noisy quantum computing. To this end, we studied the energy dissipative behavior of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-14 Tadashi Kadowaki , Masayuki Ohzeki

The coupling of two-level quantum systems to the thermal environment is a fundamental problem, with applications ranging from qubit state preparation to spin models. However, for the elementary problem of the thermodynamics of an ensemble…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-29 Christian Kurtscheid , Andreas Redmann , Frank Vewinger , Julian Schmitt , Martin Weitz

Simulating the dynamics and the non-equilibrium steady state of an open quantum system are hard computational tasks on conventional computers. For the simulation of the time evolution, several efficient quantum algorithms have recently been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Nathan Ramusat , Vincenzo Savona

Quantum state preparation lies at the heart of quantum computation and quantum simulations, enabling the investigation of complex manybody systems across physics, chemistry, and data science. While existing methods such as Variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Davide Cugini , Giacomo Guarnieri , Mario Motta , Dario Gerace

We propose applying the adiabatic algorithm to prepare high-energy eigenstates of integrable models on a quantum computer. We first review the standard adiabatic algorithm to prepare ground states in each magnetization sector of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Maximilian Lutz , Lorenzo Piroli , Georgios Styliaris , J. Ignacio Cirac

Excited states of molecules lie in the heart of photochemistry and chemical reactions. The recent development in quantum computational chemistry leads to inventions of a variety of algorithms that calculate the excited states of molecules…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-05 Hiroki Kawai , Yuya O. Nakagawa

In this work, we show how Gibbs or thermal states appear dynamically in closed quantum many-body systems, building on the program of dynamical typicality. We introduce a novel perturbation theorem for physically relevant weak system-bath…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-13 Arnau Riera , Christian Gogolin , Jens Eisert

Generating large, non-trivial quantum chemistry test problems with known ground-state solutions remains a core challenge for benchmarking electronic structure methods. Inspired by planted-solution techniques from combinatorial optimization,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Linjun Wang , Joshua T. Cantin , Smik Patel , Ignacio Loaiza , Rick Huang , Artur F. Izmaylov

We introduce quantum fluctuations into the simulated annealing process of optimization problems, aiming at faster convergence to the optimal state. Quantum fluctuations cause transitions between states and thus play the same role as thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tadashi Kadowaki , Hidetoshi Nishimori

We investigate the feasibility of early fault-tolerant quantum algorithms focusing on ground-state energy estimation problems. In particular, we examine the computation of the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the spectral measure…

Adiabatic state preparation provides an analytical solution for generating the ground state of a target Hamiltonian, starting from an easily prepared ground state of the initial Hamiltonian. While effective for time-dependent Hamiltonians…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Zekun He , A. F. Kemper , J. K. Freericks

Imaginary time evolution is a powerful tool for studying quantum systems. While it is possible to simulate with a classical computer, the time and memory requirements generally scale exponentially with the system size. Conversely, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Sam McArdle , Tyson Jones , Suguru Endo , Ying Li , Simon Benjamin , Xiao Yuan

A milestone in the field of quantum computing will be solving problems in quantum chemistry and materials faster than state-of-the-art classical methods. The current understanding is that achieving quantum advantage in this area will…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Guoming Wang , Daniel Stilck França , Ruizhe Zhang , Shuchen Zhu , Peter D. Johnson