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Electronic ground states are of central importance in chemical simulations, but have remained beyond the reach of efficient classical algorithms except in cases of weak electron correlation or one-dimensional spatial geometry. We introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Oskar Leimkuhler , K. Birgitta Whaley

Quantum state tomography, the ability to deduce the density matrix of a quantum system from measured data, is of fundamental importance for the verification of present and future quantum devices. It has been realized in systems with few…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-22 M. Cramer , M. B. Plenio

We use matrix product techniques to investigate the performance of two algorithms for obtaining the ground state of a quantum many-body Hamiltonian $H = H_A + H_B$ in infinite systems. The first algorithm is a generalization of the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-30 Ruoshui Wang , Timothy H. Hsieh , Guifre Vidal

Models of interacting many-body quantum systems that may realize new exotic phases of matter, notably quantum spin liquids, are challenging to study using even state-of-the-art classical methods such as tensor network simulations. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Aaron Szasz , Ed Younis , Wibe Albert de Jong

Quantum algorithms for electronic-structure simulations are actively being developed, yet many hybrid quantum-classical approaches are bottlenecked by the measurement overhead associated with large molecular Hamiltonians. Here we introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Benjamin Mokhtar , Noboru Inoue , Takashi Tsuchimochi

We present a method to approximate partition functions of quantum systems using mixed-state quantum computation. For positive semi-definite Hamiltonians, our method has expected running-time that is almost linear in $(M/(\epsilon_{\rm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Anirban N. Chowdhury , Rolando D. Somma , Yigit Subasi

We describe an algorithm for quantum state tomography that converges in polynomial time to an estimate, together with a rigorous error bound on the fidelity between the estimate and the true state. The result suggests that state tomography…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-23 Steven T. Flammia , David Gross , Stephen D. Bartlett , Rolando Somma

Estimating the eigenstate properties of quantum systems is a long-standing, challenging problem for both classical and quantum computing. Existing universal quantum algorithms typically rely on ideal and efficient query models (e.g. time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Jinzhao Sun , Pei Zeng , Tom Gur , M. S. Kim

Given the Hamiltonian, the evaluation of unitary operators has been at the heart of many quantum algorithms. Motivated by existing deterministic and random methods, we present a hybrid approach, where Hamiltonians with large amplitude are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-17 Shi Jin , Xiantao Li

A quantum eigensolver is designed under a multi-layer cluster mean-field (CMF) algorithm by partitioning a quantum system into spatially-separated clusters. For each cluster, a reduced Hamiltonian is obtained after a partial average over…

We provide a polynomial-time classical algorithm for noisy quantum circuits. The algorithm computes the expectation value of any observable for any circuit, with a small average error over input states drawn from an ensemble (e.g. the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Thomas Schuster , Chao Yin , Xun Gao , Norman Y. Yao

Estimating molecular ground-state energies is a central application of quantum computing, requiring both the preparation of accurate quantum states and efficient energy readout. Understanding the effect of hardware noise on these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Ludwig Nützel , Michael J. Hartmann , Henrik Dreyer , Etienne Granet

We investigate an approach for studying the ground state of a quantum many-body Hamiltonian that is based on treating the correlation functions as variational parameters. In this approach, the challenge set by the exponentially-large…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-22 Arbel Haim , Richard Kueng , Gil Refael

Over the last century, a large number of physical and mathematical developments paired with rapidly advancing technology have allowed the field of quantum chemistry to advance dramatically. However, the lack of computationally efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-08 James D. Whitfield , Jacob Biamonte , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

The use of combinatorial optimization algorithms has contributed substantially to the major progress that has occurred in recent years in the understanding of the physics of disordered systems, such as the random-field Ising model. While…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-02-22 Manoj Kumar , Martin Weigel

We study the computational complexity of the Guided Local Hamiltonian problem: given a local Hamiltonian $H$ together with a classical description of a guiding state that has non-negligible overlap with the ground state of $H$, estimate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Gabriel Waite , Karl Lin , Samuel J Elman , Michael J Bremner

We present a suite of "holographic" quantum algorithms for efficient ground-state preparation and dynamical evolution of correlated spin-systems, which require far-fewer qubits than the number of spins being simulated. The algorithms…

The capacity for solving eigenstates with a quantum computer is key for ultimately simulating physical systems. Here we propose inverse iteration quantum eigensolvers, which exploit the power of quantum computing for the classical inverse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-09 Min-Quan He , Dan-Bo Zhang , Z. D. Wang

A numerical algorithm for studying strongly correlated electron systems is proposed. The groundstate wavefunction is projected out after numerical renormalization procedure in the path integral formalism. The wavefunction is expressed from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Masatoshi Imada , Tsuyoshi Kashima

We describe an efficient approximation algorithm for evaluating the ground-state energy of the classical Ising Hamiltonian with linear terms on an arbitrary planar graph. The running time of the algorithm grows linearly with the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-16 Nikhil Bansal , Sergey Bravyi , Barbara M. Terhal