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A restricted path integral method is proposed to simulate a type of quantum system or Hamiltonian called a sum of controlled few-fermions on a classical computer using Monte Carlo without a numerical sign problem. Then a universality is…

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Finding the ground energy of a quantum system is a fundamental problem in condensed matter physics and quantum chemistry. Existing classical algorithms for tackling this problem often assume that the ground state has a succinct classical…

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Ground state counting plays an important role in several applications in science and engineering, from estimating residual entropy in physical systems, to bounding engineering reliability and solving combinatorial counting problems. While…

The quantum k-Local Hamiltonian problem is a natural generalization of classical constraint satisfaction problems (k-CSP) and is complete for QMA, a quantum analog of NP. Although the complexity of k-Local Hamiltonian problems has been well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Ojas Parekh , Kevin Thompson

We describe an algorithm that computes the ground state energy and correlation functions for 2-local Hamiltonians in which interactions between qubits are weak compared to single-qubit terms. The running time of the algorithm is polynomial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergey Bravyi , David DiVincenzo , Daniel Loss

We give a quantum algorithm for solving instances of the satisfiability problem, based on adiabatic evolution. The evolution of the quantum state is governed by a time-dependent Hamiltonian that interpolates between an initial Hamiltonian,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edward Farhi , Jeffrey Goldstone , Sam Gutmann , Michael Sipser

We present an algorithm for measurement of $k$-local operators in a quantum state, which scales logarithmically both in the system size and the output accuracy. The key ingredients of the algorithm are a digital representation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Apoorva Patel , Anjani Priyadarsini

We introduce a quantum algorithm to efficiently prepare states with a small energy variance at the target energy. We achieve it by filtering a product state at the given energy with a Lorentzian filter of width $\delta$. Given a local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 Reinis Irmejs , Mari Carmen Bañuls , J. Ignacio Cirac

Quantum Imaginary-Time Evolution (QITE) is a powerful method for preparing ground states on quantum hardware. However, executing QITE has costly measurement budgets for general Hamiltonians. Both fidelity and computational cost are strongly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Julio Del Castillo , Mats Granath , Evert van Nieuwenburg

The preparation of the ground state of a Hamiltonian $H$ with a large spectral radius has applications in many areas such as electronic structure theory and quantum field theory. Given an initial state with a constant overlap with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Yulong Dong , Lin Lin

In quantum adiabatic evolution algorithms, the quantum computer follows the ground state of a slowly varying Hamiltonian. The ground state of the initial Hamiltonian is easy to construct; the ground state of the final Hamiltonian encodes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edward Farhi , Jeffrey Goldstone , Sam Gutmann

In the recent breakthrough paper by Barbulescu, Gaudry, Joux and Thom{\'e}, a quasi-polynomial time algorithm (QPA) is proposed for the discrete logarithm problem over finite fields of small characteristic. The time complexity analysis of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-13 Qi Cheng , Daqing Wan , Jincheng Zhuang

All Hamiltonian complexity results to date have been proven by constructing a local Hamiltonian whose ground state -- or at least some low-energy state -- is a "computational history state", encoding a quantum computation as a superposition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Carlos E. González-Guillén , Toby S. Cubitt

Low-energy estimation and state preparation for general $k$-local Hamiltonians are fundamental challenges in quantum complexity theory. For constant relative accuracy, Buhrman et al. (PRL 2025) recently broke the natural Grover bound…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Ranitha Mataraarachchi , François Le Gall , Suguru Tamaki

Time-driven quantum systems are important in many different fields of physics like cold atoms, solid state, optics, etc. Many of their properties are encoded in the time evolution operator which is calculated by using a time-ordered product…

The task of estimating the ground state of Hamiltonians is an important problem in physics with numerous applications ranging from solid-state physics to combinatorial optimization. We provide a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-28 Kishor Bharti , Tobias Haug

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

We introduce an iterative method to search for time-optimal Hamiltonians that drive a quantum system between two arbitrary, and in general mixed, quantum states. The method is based on the idea of progressively improving the efficiency of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Francesco Campaioli , William Sloan , Kavan Modi , Felix Alexander Pollock

We study the problems of state preparation, ground state preparation and quantum state preparation. We propose an analytic approach to a stochastic quantum algorithm which prepares the ground state for $n$-qubit Hamiltonian that is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Taehee Ko , Sungbin Lim

Quantum ground-state problems are computationally hard problems; for general many-body Hamiltonians, there is no classical or quantum algorithm known to be able to solve them efficiently. Nevertheless, if a trial wavefunction approximating…