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We present a quantum algorithm for simulating a family of Markovian master equations that can be realized through a probabilistic application of unitary channels and state preparation. Our approach employs a second-order product formula for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Evan Borras , Milad Marvian

Preparing the ground states of a many-body system is essential for evaluating physical quantities and determining the properties of materials. This work provides a quantum ground state preparation scheme with shallow variational warm-start…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-21 Youle Wang , Chenghong Zhu , Mingrui Jing , Xin Wang

Universal quantum computers require entanglement and non-stabilizerness, a resource known as \textit{quantum magic}. Here, we introduce a protocol that prepares magic steady states by leveraging non-Hermitian dynamics, which, contrary to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Pablo Martinez-Azcona , Matthieu Sarkis , Alexandre Tkatchenko , Aurélia Chenu

Ground-state preparation for a given Hamiltonian is a common quantum-computing task of great importance and has relevant applications in quantum chemistry, computational material modeling, and combinatorial optimization. We consider an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Yu-Qin Chen , Shi-Xin Zhang , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang

We present a general approach to derive Lindblad master equations for a subsystem whose dynamics is coupled to dissipative bosonic modes. The derivation relies on a Schrieffer-Wolff transformation which allows to eliminate the bosonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Simon B. Jäger , Tom Schmit , Giovanna Morigi , Murray J. Holland , Ralf Betzholz

We study the problem of sampling from and preparing quantum Gibbs states of local commuting Hamiltonians on hypercubic lattices of arbitrary dimension. We prove that any such Gibbs state which satisfies a clustering condition that we coin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Ángela Capel , Paul Gondolf , Jan Kochanowski , Cambyse Rouzé

We establish new theoretical results demonstrating the efficiency and robustness of system bath interaction models for quantum thermal and ground state preparation. Unlike prior analyses, which typically relies on the Lindblad limit and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Ke Wang , Zhiyan Ding

The preparation of the ground state of a Hamiltonian $H$ with a large spectral radius has applications in many areas such as electronic structure theory and quantum field theory. Given an initial state with a constant overlap with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Yulong Dong , Lin Lin

We investigate Riemannian gradient flows for preparing ground states of a desired Hamiltonian on a quantum device. We show that the number of steps of the corresponding Riemannian gradient descent (RGD) algorithm that prepares a ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Mahum Pervez , Ariq Haqq , Nathan A. McMahon , Christian Arenz

Preparing Gibbs states, which describe systems in equilibrium at finite temperature, is of great importance, particularly at low temperatures. In this work, we propose a new method -- TEPID-ADAPT -- that prepares the thermal Gibbs state of…

Engineered dissipation is emerging as an alternative tool for quantum state control, enabling high-fidelity preparation, transfer and stabilization, and access to novel phase transitions. We realize a tunable, state-resolved laser-induced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Tao Chen , Chenxi Huang , Jacob P. Covey , Bryce Gadway

We investigate the effects of dissipation on the quantum dynamics of many-body systems at quantum transitions, especially considering those of the first order. This issue is studied within the paradigmatic one-dimensional quantum Ising…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-08 Giovanni Di Meglio , Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari

We analyze the problem of preparing quantum Gibbs states of lattice spin Hamiltonians with local and commuting terms on a quantum computer and in nature. Our central result is an equivalence between the behavior of correlations in the Gibbs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Michael J. Kastoryano , Fernando G. S. L. Brandao

Recently, there have been several advancements in quantum algorithms for Gibbs sampling. These algorithms simulate the dynamics generated by an artificial Lindbladian, which is meticulously constructed to obey a detailed-balance condition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Štěpán Šmíd , Richard Meister , Mario Berta , Roberto Bondesan

Lindbladian dynamics of open systems may be employed to steer a many-body system towards a non-trivial ground state of a local Hamiltonian. Such protocols provide us with tunable platforms facilitating the engineering and study of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Yi-Xuan Wang , Yuval Gefen

Open quantum systems evolving according to discrete-time dynamics are capable, unlike continuous-time counterparts, to converge to a stable equilibrium in finite time with zero error. We consider dissipative quantum circuits consisting of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-11 Peter D. Johnson , Francesco Ticozzi , Lorenza Viola

Since precisely controlling dissipation in realistic environments is challenging, digital simulation of the Lindblad master equation (LME) is of great significance for understanding nonequilibrium dynamics in open quantum systems. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Yu-Guo Liu , Heng Fan , Shu Chen

Physical quantum systems are generically coupled to an environment, resulting in open system dynamics. A typical approach to simulating this dynamics is to propagate the density matrix of the system via the Lindblad master equation. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Marcus Meschede , Ludwig Mathey

Finding the ground state of a Hamiltonian system is of great significance in many-body quantum physics and quantum chemistry. We propose an improved iterative quantum algorithm to prepare the ground state of a Hamiltonian. The crucial point…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Jin-Min Liang , Qiao-Qiao Lv , Shu-Qian Shen , Ming Li , Zhi-Xi Wang , Shao-Ming Fei

Dissipation has traditionally been considered a hindrance to quantum information processing, but recent studies have shown that it can be harnessed to generate desired quantum states. To be useful for practical applications, the ability to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Junjie Liu , Hanlin Nie