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Thermal properties of nanomaterials are crucial to not only improving our fundamental understanding of condensed matter systems, but also to developing novel materials for applications spanning research and industry. Since quantum effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-26 Connor Powers , Lindsay Bassman Oftelie , Daan Camps , Wibe A. de Jong

Imaginary-time evolution plays an important role in algorithms for computing ground-state and thermal equilibrium properties of quantum systems, but can be challenging to simulate on classical computers. Many quantum algorithms for…

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The application of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis to non-Hermitian quantum systems has become one of the most important topics in dissipative quantum chaos, recently giving rise to intense debates. The process of thermalization is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Yiting Mao , Peigeng Zhong , Haiqing Lin , Xiaoqun Wang , Shijie Hu

In probabilistic quantum metrology, one aims at finding weak measurements that concentrate the Fisher Information on the resulting quantum states, post-selected according to the weak outcomes. Though the Quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound itself…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 Massimo Frigerio , Stefano Olivares , Matteo G. A. Paris

We develop an efficient algorithm for a spatially inhomogeneous matrix-valued quantum Boltzmann equation derived from the Hubbard model. The distribution functions are $2 \times 2$ matrix-valued to accommodate the spin degree of freedom,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-15 Jianfeng Lu , Christian B. Mendl

We present a quantum algorithm for simulating complex many-body systems and finding their ground states, combining the use of tensor networks and density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) techniques. The algorithm is based on von…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Younes Javanmard

Accurately determining ground-state properties of quantum many-body systems remains one of the major challenges of quantum simulation. In this work, we present a protocol for estimating the ground-state energy using only global time…

Variational quantum algorithms, optimized using gradient-based methods, often exhibit sub-optimal convergence performance due to their dependence on Euclidean geometry. Quantum natural gradient descent (QNGD) is a more efficient method that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Mohammad Aamir Sohail , Mohsen Heidari , S. Sandeep Pradhan

Using the quantum Hamiltonian for a gravitational system with boundary, we find the partition function and derive the resulting thermodynamics. The Hamiltonian is the boundary term required by functional differentiability of the action for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Seth A. Major , Kevin L. Setter

Natural gradient descent is an optimization method traditionally motivated from the perspective of information geometry, and works well for many applications as an alternative to stochastic gradient descent. In this paper we critically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 James Martens

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 paper investigates the techniques of quantum computation in metrological predictions, with a particular emphasis on enhancing prediction potential through variational parameter estimation. The applicability of quantum simulations and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Vaidik A Sharma , N. Madurai Meenachi , B. Venkatraman

Quantum computing has the potential to outperform classical computers and is expected to play an active role in various fields. In quantum machine learning, a quantum computer has been found useful for enhanced feature representation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 Masaya Watabe , Kodai Shiba , Masaru Sogabe , Katsuyoshi Sakamoto , Tomah Sogabe

Many machine learning problems can be expressed as the optimization of some cost functional over a parametric family of probability distributions. It is often beneficial to solve such optimization problems using natural gradient methods.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-14 Michael Arbel , Arthur Gretton , Wuchen Li , Guido Montufar

Quantum algorithms for probing ground-state properties of quantum systems require good initial states. Projection-based methods such as eigenvalue filtering rely on inputs that have a significant overlap with the low-energy subspace, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Danial Motlagh , Modjtaba Shokrian Zini , Juan Miguel Arrazola , Nathan Wiebe

The dual tasks of quantum Hamiltonian learning and quantum Gibbs sampling are relevant to many important problems in physics and chemistry. In the low temperature regime, algorithms for these tasks often suffer from intractabilities, for…

The variational quantum eigensolver is a hybrid algorithm composed of quantum state driving and classical parameter optimization, for finding the ground state of a given Hamiltonian. The natural gradient method is an optimization method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-12 Naoki Yamamoto

Quantum metrology employs quantum properties to enhance the precision of physical parameters, in order to characterize quantum states as well as channels. Frequency and temperature estimations are of fundamental importance for these tasks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Jonas F. G. Santos

We calculate the quantum Fisher information for a generic many-body fermionic system in a pure state depending on a parameter. We discuss the situations where the parameter is imprinted in the basis states, in the state coefficients, or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-21 Olivier Giraud , Mark-Oliver Goerbig , Daniel Braun

Quantum machine learning algorithms, the extensions of machine learning to quantum regimes, are believed to be more powerful as they leverage the power of quantum properties. Quantum machine learning methods have been employed to solve…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 Shree Hari Sureshbabu , Manas Sajjan , Sangchul Oh , Sabre Kais