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We study the problem of learning the parameters for the Hamiltonian of a quantum many-body system, given limited access to the system. In this work, we build upon recent approaches to Hamiltonian learning via derivative estimation. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Andi Gu , Lukasz Cincio , Patrick J. Coles

We consider the problems of testing and learning an $n$-qubit $k$-local Hamiltonian from queries to its evolution operator with respect the 2-norm of the Pauli spectrum, or equivalently, the normalized Frobenius norm. For testing whether a…

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We study the problem of learning Hamiltonians $H$ that are $s$-sparse in the Pauli basis, given access to their time evolution. Although Hamiltonian learning has been extensively investigated, two issues recur in much of the existing…

With the fast development of quantum technology, the sizes of both digital and analog quantum systems increase drastically. In order to have better control and understanding of the quantum hardware, an important task is to characterize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Wenjun Yu , Jinzhao Sun , Zeyao Han , Xiao Yuan

We study the problem of learning a Hamiltonian $H$ to precision $\varepsilon$, supposing we are given copies of its Gibbs state $\rho=\exp(-\beta H)/\operatorname{Tr}(\exp(-\beta H))$ at a known inverse temperature $\beta$. Anshu,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Jeongwan Haah , Robin Kothari , Ewin Tang

We study the problem of learning an unknown quantum many-body Hamiltonian $H$ from black-box queries to its time evolution $e^{-\mathrm{i} H t}$. Prior proposals for solving this task either impose some assumptions on $H$, such as its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Andrew Zhao

Learning about a Hamiltonian $H$ from its time evolution $e^{-iHt}$ is a fundamental task in quantum science. A flurry of recent work has developed powerful new algorithms with provable guarantees for this task, for a variety of natural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Ziyun Chen , Jerry Li , Joseph Slote

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

We study the problem of Hamiltonian structure learning from real-time evolution: given the ability to apply $e^{-\mathrm{i} Ht}$ for an unknown local Hamiltonian $H = \sum_{a = 1}^m \lambda_a E_a$ on $n$ qubits, the goal is to recover $H$.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Ainesh Bakshi , Allen Liu , Ankur Moitra , Ewin Tang

In this work, we study the problems of certifying and learning quantum $k$-local Hamiltonians, for a constant $k$. Our main contributions are as follows: - Certification of Hamiltonians. We show that certifying a local Hamiltonian in…

Locality is a fundamental feature of many physical time evolutions. Assumptions on locality and related structural properties also underlie recently proposed procedures for learning an unknown Hamiltonian from access to the induced time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Andreas Bluhm , Matthias C. Caro , Aadil Oufkir

Learning a many-body Hamiltonian from its dynamics is a fundamental problem in physics. In this work, we propose the first algorithm to achieve the Heisenberg limit for learning an interacting $N$-qubit local Hamiltonian. After a total…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Hsin-Yuan Huang , Yu Tong , Di Fang , Yuan Su

We study the problem of learning a local quantum Hamiltonian $H$ given copies of its Gibbs state $\rho = e^{-\beta H}/\textrm{tr}(e^{-\beta H})$ at a known inverse temperature $\beta>0$. Anshu, Arunachalam, Kuwahara, and Soleimanifar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Ainesh Bakshi , Allen Liu , Ankur Moitra , Ewin Tang

The (tolerant) Hamiltonian locality testing problem, introduced in [Bluhm, Caro,Oufkir `24], is to determine whether a Hamiltonian $H$ is $\varepsilon_1$-close to being $k$-local (i.e. can be written as the sum of weight-$k$ Pauli…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 John Kallaugher , Daniel Liang

Hamiltonian learning protocols are essential tools to benchmark quantum computers and simulators. Yet rigorous methods for time-dependent Hamiltonians and Lindbladians remain scarce despite their wide use. We close this gap by learning the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Daniel Stilck França , Tim Möbus , Cambyse Rouzé , Albert H. Werner

We build upon recent work on using Machine Learning models to estimate Hamiltonian parameters using continuous weak measurement of qubits as input. We consider two settings for the training of our model: (1) supervised learning where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 Kris Tucker , Amit Kiran Rege , Conor Smith , Claire Monteleoni , Tameem Albash

As the size of quantum devices continues to grow, the development of scalable methods to characterise and diagnose noise is becoming an increasingly important problem. Recent methods have shown how to efficiently estimate Hamiltonians in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Tim J. Evans , Robin Harper , Steven T. Flammia

Characterizing quantum many-body systems is a fundamental problem across physics, chemistry, and materials science. While significant progress has been made, many existing Hamiltonian learning protocols demand digital quantum control over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Sitan Chen , Jordan Cotler , Hsin-Yuan Huang

In this work, we initiate the study of Hamiltonian learning for positive temperature bosonic Gaussian states, the quantum generalization of the widely studied problem of learning Gaussian graphical models. We obtain efficient protocols,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Marco Fanizza , Cambyse Rouzé , Daniel Stilck França
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