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Reliable preparation of many-body ground states is an essential task in quantum computing, with applications spanning areas from chemistry and materials modeling to quantum optimization and benchmarking. A variety of approaches have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Ricard Puig , Berta Casas , Alba Cervera-Lierta , Zoë Holmes , Adrián Pérez-Salinas

Adiabatic quantum computing enables the preparation of many-body ground states. This is key for applications in chemistry, materials science, and beyond. Realisation poses major experimental challenges: Direct analog implementation requires…

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

One of the key applications for the emerging quantum simulators is to emulate the ground state of many-body systems, as it is of great interest in various fields from condensed matter physics to material science. Traditionally, in an analog…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-18 Chufan Lyu , Victor Montenegro , Abolfazl Bayat

Preparing the ground state of a Hamiltonian is a problem of great significance in physics with deep implications in the field of combinatorial optimization. The adiabatic algorithm is known to return the ground state for sufficiently long…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Benjamin F. Schiffer , Jordi Tura , J. Ignacio Cirac

We develop an adiabatic theory for generators of contracting evolution on Banach spaces. This provides a uniform framework for a host of adiabatic theorems ranging from unitary quantum evolutions through quantum evolutions of open systems…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 J. E. Avron , M. Fraas , G. M. Graf , P. Grech

Adiabatic quantum computation is based on the adiabatic evolution of quantum systems. We analyse a particular class of qauntum adiabatic evolutions where either the initial or final Hamiltonian is a one-dimensional projector Hamiltonian on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Avatar Tulsi

The adiabatic theorem is an important concept in quantum mechanics, it tells that a quantum system subjected to gradually changing external conditions remains to the same instantaneous eigenstate of its Hamiltonian as it initially in. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 J. Shen , W. Wang , C. M. Dai , X. X. Yi

In this paper,we present a rigorous demonstration and discussion of the quantum adiabatic theorem for systems having a non degenerate continuous spectrum. A new strategy is initiated by defining a kind of gap, "a virtual gap", for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-28 M. Maamache , Y. Saadi

Suppressing unwanted transitions out of the instantaneous ground state is a major challenge in unitary adiabatic quantum computation. A recent approach consists in building counterdiabatic potentials approximated using variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Gianluca Passarelli , Rosario Fazio , Procolo Lucignano

This paper explores several aspects of the adiabatic quantum computation model. We first show a way that directly maps any arbitrary circuit in the standard quantum computing model to an adiabatic algorithm of the same depth. Specifically,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Stewart Siu

The adiabatic theorem states that when the time evolution of the Hamiltonian is "infinitely slow", a system, when started in the ground state, remains in the instantaneous ground state at all times. This, however, does not mean that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Raffaele Resta

In adiabatic quantum computing the aim is to track an eigenstate as the Hamiltonian changes. In the usual setup this is achieved using the natural time-dependent Hamiltonian evolution of the system and the main technical tool is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Joseph Cunningham , Jérémie Roland

The quantum adiabatic theorem states that if a quantum system starts in an eigenstate of the Hamiltonian, and this Hamiltonian varies sufficiently slowly, the system stays in this eigenstate. We investigate experimentally the conditions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-03 Jiangfeng Du , Lingzhi Hu , Ya Wang , Jianda Wu , Meisheng Zhao , Dieter Suter

Many physically interesting models show a quantum phase transition when a single parameter is varied through a critical point, where the ground state and the first excited state become degenerate. When this parameter appears as a coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-24 Gernot Schaller

The viability of adiabatic quantum computation depends on the slow evolution of the Hamiltonian. The adiabatic switching theorem provides an asymptotic series for error estimates in $1/T$, based on the lowest non-zero derivative of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Thomas D. Cohen , Andrew Li , Hyunwoo Oh , Maneesha Sushama Pradeep

Adiabatic passage employs a slowly varying time-dependent Hamiltonian to control the evolution of a quantum system along the Hamiltonian eigenstates. For processes of finite duration, the exact time evolving state may deviate from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-18 Albert Benseny , Klaus Mølmer

We expand upon the standard quantum adiabatic theorem, examining the time-dependence of quantum evolution in the near-adiabatic limit. We examine a Hamiltonian that evolves along some fixed trajectory from $\hat{H}_0$ to $\hat{H}_1$ in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-07 Lucas Brady , Wim van Dam

Quantum adiabatic evolution is a dynamical evolution of a quantum system under slow external driving. According to the quantum adiabatic theorem, no transitions occur between non-degenerate instantaneous eigen-energy levels in such a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Qi Zhang , Jiangbin Gong , Biao Wu

The evolution of a driven quantum system is said to be adiabatic whenever the state of the system stays close to an instantaneous eigenstate of its time-dependent Hamiltonian. The celebrated quantum adiabatic theorem ensures that such pure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Nikolai Il`in , Anastasia Aristova , Oleg Lychkovskiy
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