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Variational representations of quantum states abound and have successfully been used to guess ground-state properties of quantum many-body systems. Some are based on partial physical insight (Jastrow, Gutzwiller projected, and fractional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Douglas Hendry , Adrian E. Feiguin

Hidden Quantum Markov Models (HQMMs) can be thought of as quantum probabilistic graphical models that can model sequential data. We extend previous work on HQMMs with three contributions: (1) we show how classical hidden Markov models…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-26 Siddarth Srinivasan , Geoff Gordon , Byron Boots

Quantum computers have been widely speculated to offer significant advantages in obtaining the ground state of difficult Hamiltonian in chemistry and physics. In this work, we first propose a Lyapunov control-inspired strategy to accelerate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Yu-Cheng Chen , Yu-Qin Chen , Alice Hu , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang

The Hamiltonian of an isolated quantum mechanical system determines its dynamics and physical behaviour. This study investigates the possibility of learning and utilising a system's Hamiltonian and its variational thermal state estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Jack Y. Araz , Michael Spannowsky

Differentiable models of physical systems provide a powerful platform for gradient-based algorithms, with particular impact on parameter estimation and optimal control. Quantum systems present a particular challenge for such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 David L. Craig , Natalia Ares , Erik M. Gauger

Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) are a class of neural networks that have been successfully employed as a variational ansatz for quantum many-body wave functions. Here, we develop an analytic method to study quantum many-body spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-06 Xiao-Qi Sun , Tamra Nebabu , Xizhi Han , Michael O. Flynn , Xiao-Liang Qi

Quantum Bayesian Computation (QBC) is an emerging field that levers the computational gains available from quantum computers to provide an exponential speed-up in Bayesian computation. Our paper adds to the literature in two ways. First, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-07 Nick Polson , Vadim Sokolov , Jianeng Xu

Variational quantum algorithms offer a promising new paradigm for solving partial differential equations on near-term quantum computers. Here, we propose a variational quantum algorithm for solving a general evolution equation through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Fong Yew Leong , Wei-Bin Ewe , Dax Enshan Koh

Minimally entangled typical thermal states (METTS) are a construction that allows one to to solve for the imaginary time evolution of quantum many body systems. By using wave functions that are weakly entangled, one can take advantage of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-27 Douglas Hendry , Hongwei Chen , Adrian Feiguin

Despite rapid recent advances in quantum machine learning, the field is in many ways stuck. Existing approaches can exhibit serious limitations, and we still lack learning frameworks that are simple, interpretable, scalable, and naturally…

We introduce an iterative method to search for time-optimal Hamiltonians that drive a quantum system between two arbitrary, and in general mixed, quantum states. The method is based on the idea of progressively improving the efficiency of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Francesco Campaioli , William Sloan , Kavan Modi , Felix Alexander Pollock

Quantum phase estimation (QPE) plays a pivotal role in many quantum algorithms, offering provable speedups in applications such as Shor's factoring algorithm. While fault-tolerant quantum algorithms for combinatorial and Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Nora Bauer , George Siopsis

We review and analyze the hybrid quantum-classical NMR computing methodology referred to as Type-II quantum computing. We show that all such algorithms considered so far within this paradigm are equivalent to some classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Peter J. Love , Bruce M. Boghosian

This study explores the implementation of large Quantum Restricted Boltzmann Machines (QRBMs), a key advancement in Quantum Machine Learning (QML), as generative models on D-Wave's Pegasus quantum hardware to address dataset imbalance in…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Salvatore Sinno , Markus Bertl , Arati Sahoo , Bhavika Bhalgamiya , Thomas Groß , Nicholas Chancellor

The variational approach is a cornerstone of computational physics, considering both conventional and quantum computing computational platforms. The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm aims to prepare the ground state of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-16 Nikita Astrakhantsev , Guglielmo Mazzola , Ivano Tavernelli , Giuseppe Carleo

Quantum Boltzmann machine extends the classical Boltzmann machine learning to the quantum regime, which makes its power to simulate the quantum states beyond the classical probability distributions. We develop the BFGS algorithm to study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Hai-Jing Song , Tieling Song , Qi-Kai He , Yang Liu , D. L. Zhou

Simulating quantum many-body dynamics on classical computers is a challenging problem due to the exponential growth of the Hilbert space. Artificial neural networks have recently been introduced as a new tool to approximate quantum-many…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-05-25 Sheng-Hsuan Lin , Frank Pollmann

In designing quantum control, it is generally required to simulate the controlled system evolution with a classical computer. However, computing the time evolution operator can be quite resource-consuming since the total Hamiltonian is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Xiaodong Yang , Xinfang Nie , Yunlan Ji , Tao Xin , Dawei Lu , Jun Li

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models with the salient ability to perform inference. Here, we introduce a quantum variational autoencoder (QVAE): a VAE whose latent generative process is implemented as a quantum…

We present a concise derivation of the Boltzmann form for single-particle energy distributions in classical many-body Hamiltonian systems. The derivation relies on two physical facts: coarse-graining-scale invariance of the empirical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-26 Weicheng Fu , Yisen Wang , Yong Zhang , Hong Zhao