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In this work we investigate a binned version of Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE) set out by [Somma 2019] and known as the Quantum Eigenvalue Estimation Problem (QEEP). Specifically, we determine whether the circuit decomposition techniques we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Laura Clinton , Johannes Bausch , Joel Klassen , Toby Cubitt

We present two quantum algorithms based on evolution randomization, a simple variant of adiabatic quantum computing, to prepare a quantum state $\vert x \rangle$ that is proportional to the solution of the system of linear equations $A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Yigit Subasi , Rolando D. Somma , Davide Orsucci

Large-scale eigenvalue problems pose a significant challenge to classical computers. While there are efficient quantum algorithms for unitary or Hermitian matrices, eigenvalue problems for non-normal matrices remain open in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Honghong Lin , Yun Shang

The problem of estimating the ground-state energy of a quantum system is ubiquitous in chemistry and condensed matter physics. Krylov quantum diagonalization (KQD) has emerged as a promising approach for this task. However, many KQD methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Adam Byrne , William Kirby , Kirk M. Soodhalter , Sergiy Zhuk

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

In this work we propose an approach for implementing time-evolution of a quantum system using product formulas. The quantum algorithms we develop have provably better scaling (in terms of gate complexity and circuit depth) than a naive…

Predicting properties across system parameters is an important task in quantum physics, with applications ranging from molecular dynamics to variational quantum algorithms. Recently, provably efficient algorithms to solve this task for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Štěpán Šmíd , Roberto Bondesan

One can fix the randomness used by a randomized algorithm, but there is no analogous notion of fixing the quantumness used by a quantum algorithm. Underscoring this fundamental difference, we show that, in the black-box setting, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Scott Aaronson , DeVon Ingram , William Kretschmer

We study the problem of learning a $k$-body Hamiltonian with $M$ unknown Pauli terms that are not necessarily geometrically local. We propose a protocol that learns the Hamiltonian to precision $\epsilon$ with total evolution time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 Muzhou Ma , Steven T. Flammia , John Preskill , Yu Tong

Given a Hamiltonian that is a sum of commuting few-body terms, the commuting Hamiltonian problem is to determine if there exists a quantum state that is the simultaneous eigenstate of all of these terms that minimizes each term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-20 Jijiang Yan , Dave Bacon

Learning the Hamiltonian underlying a quantum many-body system in thermal equilibrium is a fundamental task in quantum learning theory and experimental sciences. To learn the Gibbs state of local Hamiltonians at any inverse temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Chi-Fang Chen , Anurag Anshu , Quynh T. Nguyen

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 study 'Merlinized' versions of the recently defined Guided Local Hamiltonian problem, which we call 'Guidable Local Hamiltonian' problems. Unlike their guided counterparts, these problems do not have a guiding state provided as a part of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Jordi Weggemans , Marten Folkertsma , Chris Cade

We propose a variational quantum algorithm to study the real time dynamics of quantum systems as a ground-state problem. The method is based on the original proposal of Feynman and Kitaev to encode time into a register of auxiliary qubits.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-16 Stefano Barison , Filippo Vicentini , Ignacio Cirac , Giuseppe Carleo

Quantum annealing (QA) is an efficient method for finding the ground-state energy of the problem Hamiltonian. However, in practical implementation, the system suffers from decoherence. On the other hand, recently, ``Localized virtual…

Quantum many-body systems involving bosonic modes or gauge fields have infinite-dimensional local Hilbert spaces which must be truncated to perform simulations of real-time dynamics on classical or quantum computers. To analyze the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Yu Tong , Victor V. Albert , Jarrod R. McClean , John Preskill , Yuan Su

We propose a class of randomized quantum Krylov diagonalization (rQKD) algorithms capable of solving the eigenstate estimation problem with modest quantum resource requirements. Compared to previous real-time evolution quantum Krylov…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Nicholas H. Stair , Cristian L. Cortes , Robert M. Parrish , Jeffrey Cohn , Mario Motta

Mapping the system evolution of a two-state system allows the determination of the effective system Hamiltonian directly. We show how this can be achieved even if the system is decohering appreciably over the observation time. A method to…

Significant effort in applied quantum computing has been devoted to the problem of ground state energy estimation for molecules and materials. Yet, for many applications of practical value, additional properties of the ground state must be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Ruizhe Zhang , Guoming Wang , Peter Johnson

Branch-and-bound is a widely used technique for solving combinatorial optimisation problems where one has access to two procedures: a branching procedure that splits a set of potential solutions into subsets, and a cost procedure that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Ashley Montanaro