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We investigate the competition of coherent and dissipative dynamics in many-body systems at continuous quantum transitions. We consider dissipative mechanisms that can be effectively described by Lindblad equations for the density matrix of…

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We present an algorithm that prepares thermal Gibbs states of one dimensional quantum systems on a quantum computer without any memory overhead, and in a time significantly shorter than other known alternatives. Specifically, the time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-29 Ersen Bilgin , Sergio Boixo

We propose a quantum algorithm, inspired by ADAPT-VQE, to variationally prepare the ground state of a quantum Hamiltonian, with the desirable property that if it fails to find the ground state, it still yields a physically meaningful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Shuchen Zhu , Yu Tong

Preparation of quantum thermal states of many-body systems is a key computational challenge for quantum processors, with applications in physics, chemistry, and classical optimization. We provide a simple and efficient algorithm for thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Jerome Lloyd , Dmitry A. Abanin

We are interested by the behaviour of a 1D single heavy particle, interacting with an environment made of very fast particles in a thermal state. Assuming that the interactions are instantaneous, we construct an appropriate quantum jump…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-03-28 Christophe Gomez , Maxime Hauray

Dissipative processes have long been proposed as a means of performing computational tasks on quantum computers that may be intrinsically more robust to noise. In this work, we prove two main results concerning the error-resilience…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 James Purcell , Abhishek Rajput , Toby Cubitt

Nonequilibrium conditions are traditionally seen as detrimental to the appearance of quantum-coherent many-body phenomena, and much effort is often devoted to their elimination. Recently this approach has changed: It has been realized that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-12-02 Moshe Goldstein

A candidate application for quantum computers is to simulate the low-temperature properties of quantum systems. For this task, there is a well-studied quantum algorithm that performs quantum phase estimation on an initial trial state that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Chi-Fang , Chen , Alexander M. Dalzell , Mario Berta , Fernando G. S. L. Brandão , Joel A. Tropp

Inspired by a recent work [Reiter, Reeb, and S{\o}rensen, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf117}, 040501 (2016)], we present a simplified proposal for dissipatively preparing a Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state of three Rydberg atoms in a cavity.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 X. Q. Shao , J. H. Wu , X. X. Yi , Gui-Lu Long

The Lindblad equation for open quantum systems is central to our understanding of coherence and entanglement in the presence of Markovian dissipation. In closed quantum systems Hilbert-space fragmentation is an effective mechanism for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Dawid Paszko , Christopher J. Turner , Dominic C. Rose , Arijeet Pal

We investigate quantum thermal state preparation algorithms based on system-bath interactions and uncover a surprising phenomenon in the weak-coupling regime. We rigorously prove that, if the system-bath interaction is engineered so that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Hongrui Chen , Zhiyan Ding , Ruizhe Zhang

Preparing the ground state of the Fermi-Hubbard model is challenging, in part due to the exponentially large Hilbert space, which complicates efficiently finding a path from an initial state to the ground state using the variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Zekun He , Lorenzo Del Re , A. F. Kemper , J. K. Freericks

Reliable preparation of many-body ground states is an essential task in quantum computing, with applications spanning areas from chemistry and materials modeling to quantum optimization and benchmarking. A variety of approaches have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Ricard Puig , Berta Casas , Alba Cervera-Lierta , Zoë Holmes , Adrián Pérez-Salinas

We study the critical behavior of the nonequilibrium dynamics and of the steady states emerging from the competition between coherent and dissipative dynamics close to quantum phase transitions. The latter is induced by the coupling of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-26 Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari

Preparation of low-energy quantum many-body states has a wide range of applications in quantum information processing and condensed matter physics. Quantum cooling algorithms offer a promising alternative to other methods based, for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Daniel Molpeceres , Sirui Lu , J. Ignacio Cirac , Barbara Kraus

We investigate the time evolution of an open quantum system described by a Lindblad master equation with dissipation acting only on a part of the degrees of freedom ${\cal H}_0$ of the system, and targeting a unique dark state in ${\cal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-09 Vladislav Popkov , Simon Essink , Carlo Presilla , Gunter Schütz

We show that absorbing state phase transitions where the absorbing state itself exhibits long-range phase coherence can lead to critical behavior distinct from directed percolation. To do this, we investigate a simple, purely dissipative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Matthew Wampler , Nigel R. Cooper

We investigate to what extent a suitably chosen system Hamiltonian can counteract local dissipative processes and preserve entanglement in the stationary state. The results determine prospects and limitations of dissipative state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-27 Simeon Sauer , Clemens Gneiting , Andreas Buchleitner

Topological order offers possibilities for processing quantum information which can be immune to imperfections. However, the question of its stability out of equilibrium is relevant for experiments, where coupling to an environment is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Dawid Paszko , Dominic C. Rose , Marzena H. Szymańska , Arijeet Pal

Markovian open quantum systems are governed by the Lindblad master equation where the dissipation contains two parts, i.e., the anti-Hermitian operator and the quantum jumps, which share a common dissipation rate. We generalize the Lindblad…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Xu-Ke Gu , Li-Zhou Tan , Franco Nori , J. Q. You