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Efficiently preparing approximate ground-states of large, strongly correlated systems on quantum hardware is challenging and yet nature is innately adept at this. This has motivated the study of thermodynamically inspired approaches to…

Variational Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution (VQITE) is a leading technique for ground state preparation on quantum computers. A significant computational challenge of VQITE is the determination of the quantum geometric tensor. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Aeishah Ameera Anuar , Francois Jamet , Fabio Gironella , Fedor Simkovic , Riccardo Rossi

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…

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

Calculations at finite temperatures are fundamental in different scientific fields, from nuclear physics to condensed matter. Evolution in imaginary time is a prominent classical technique for preparing thermal states of quantum systems. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-30 Francesco Turro

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

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

Imaginary-time evolution is fundamental for analyzing quantum many-body systems, yet classical simulation requires exponentially growing resources in both system size and evolution time. While quantum approaches reduce the system-size…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Lei Zhang , Jizhe Lai , Xian Wu , Xin Wang

Various methods have been developed for the quantum computation of the ground and excited states of physical and chemical systems, but many of them require either large numbers of ancilla qubits or high-dimensional optimization. The quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-16 Kübra Yeter-Aydeniz , Raphael C. Pooser , George Siopsis

A probabilistic imaginary-time evolution (PITE) method was proposed as a nonvariational method to obtain a ground state on a quantum computer. In this formalism, the success probability of obtaining all imaginary-time evolution operators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Hirofumi Nishi , Taichi Kosugi , Yusuke Nishiya , Yu-ichiro Matsushita

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

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

Quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE) is one of the promising candidates for finding eigenvalues and eigenstates of a Hamiltonian. However, the original QITE proposal [Nat. Phys. 16, 205-210 (2020)], which approximates the imaginary time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Yifei Huang , Yuguo Shao , Weiluo Ren , Jinzhao Sun , Dingshun Lv

Evolution in imaginary time is a prominent technique for finding the ground state of quantum many-body systems, and the heart of a number of numerical methods that have been used with great success in quantum chemistry, condensed matter and…

The imaginary-time evolution method is widely known to be efficient for obtaining the ground state in quantum many-body problems on a classical computer. A recently proposed quantum imaginary-time evolution method (QITE) faces problems of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Hirofumi Nishi , Taichi Kosugi , Yu-ichiro Matsushita

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

Numerous methodologies have been proposed to implement imaginary time evolution (ITE) on quantum computers. Among these, variational ITE (VITE) methods for noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers have attracted much attention,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Hiroki Kuji , Tetsuro Nikuni , Yuta Shingu

We present a quantum algorithm for systems of (possibly inhomogeneous) linear ordinary differential equations with constant coefficients. The algorithm produces a quantum state that is proportional to the solution at a desired final time.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-07 Dominic W. Berry , Andrew M. Childs , Aaron Ostrander , Guoming Wang

As quantum hardware rapidly advances toward the early fault-tolerant era, a key challenge is to develop quantum algorithms that are not only theoretically sound but also hardware-friendly on near-term devices. In this work, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Di Fang , David Lloyd George , Yu Tong

In this paper, we apply the deterministic quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE) algorithm to obtain the ground state of a $2+1$-dimensional pure $\mathbb{Z}_2$ lattice gauge theory. We first construct the set of Pauli operators commuting…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-29 Minoru Sekiyama , Lento Nagano