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We study the Schwinger model at finite-temperature regime using a quantum-classical hybrid algorithm. The preparation of thermal state on quantum circuit presents significant challenges. To address this, we adopt the Thermal Pure Quantum…

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Developing scalable quantum algorithms to study finite-temperature physics of quantum many-body systems has attracted considerable interest due to recent advancements in quantum hardware. However, such algorithms in their present form…

Quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE) is a powerful method to derive the ground states of the systems. Only the damping of quantum states leads it; hence, reaching the ground state is guaranteed by nature without any external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Hikaru Wakaura , Rahmat Mulyawan , Andriyan B. Suksmono

Computing the ground-state properties of quantum many-body systems is a promising application of near-term quantum hardware with a potential impact in many fields. The conventional algorithm quantum phase estimation uses deep circuits and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Mingxia Huo , Ying Li

We propose a new variational quantum algorithm, which we refer to as TIMES-ADAPT, that prepares time-evolved states in a low-energy or symmetric subspace of a time-independent Hamiltonian on a quantum computer. Using a specially trained…

We introduce a method to solve the MaxCut problem efficiently based on quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE). We employ a linear Ansatz for unitary updates and an initial state involving no entanglement, as well as an…

We introduce a constructive method for mapping non-unitary dynamics to a weighted set of unitary operations. We utilize this construction to derive a new correspondence between real and imaginary time, which we term Imaginary Time Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Jacob M. Leamer , Alicia B. Magann , Denys I. Bondar , Gerard McCaul

We reveal the power of Grover's algorithm from thermodynamic and geometric perspectives by showing that it is a product formula approximation of imaginary-time evolution (ITE), a Riemannian gradient flow on the special unitary group. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Yudai Suzuki , Marek Gluza , Jeongrak Son , Bi Hong Tiang , Nelly H. Y. Ng , Zoë Holmes

Quantum state preparation plays a crucial role in several areas of quantum information science, in applications such as quantum simulation, quantum metrology and quantum computing. However, typically state preparation requires resources…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Tianqi Chen , Tim Byrnes

Non-Hermitian quantum systems exhibit unique properties and hold significant promise for diverse applications, yet their dynamical simulation poses a particular challenge due to intrinsic openness and non-unitary evolution. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Xiaogang Li , Kecheng Liu , Qiming Ding

Tensor-network simulations of quantum many-body dynamics are fundamentally limited by entanglement build-up, which leads to exponentially growing computational costs. Furthermore, these classical simulation algorithms are inherently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Fredrik Hasselgren , Bálint Koczor

We simulate the critical behavior of the Ising model utilizing a thermal state prepared using quantum computing techniques. The preparation of the thermal state is based on the variational quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE) algorithm.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-07 Xiaoyang Wang , Xu Feng , Tobias Hartung , Karl Jansen , Paolo Stornati

We present a hybrid Path Integral Monte Carlo (hPIMC) algorithm to calculate real-time quantum thermal correlation functions and demonstrate its application to open quantum systems. The hPIMC algorithm leverages the successes of classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Elliot C. Eklund , Nandini Ananth

The phase estimation algorithm is a powerful quantum algorithm with applications in cryptography, number theory, and simulation of quantum systems. We use this algorithm to simulate the time evolution of a system of two spin-1/2 particles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Scott Johnstun , Jean-François Van Huele

A typical quantum state obeying the area law for entanglement on an infinite 2D lattice can be represented by a tensor network ansatz -- known as an infinite projected entangled pair state (iPEPS) -- with a finite bond dimension $D$. Its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-11 Piotr Czarnik , Jacek Dziarmaga

In this work we propose an approach for implementing time-evolution of a quantum system using product formulas. The quantum algorithms we develop have provably better scaling (in terms of gate complexity and circuit depth) than a naive…

Simulation of quantum matters is a significant application of quantum computers. In contrast to the unitary operation which can be realized naturally on a quantum computer, the implementation of nonunitary operation, widely used in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Tong Liu , Jin-Guo Liu , Heng Fan

We present efficient quantum algorithms for simulating time-dependent Hamiltonian evolution of general input states using an oracular model of a quantum computer. Our algorithms use either constant or adaptively chosen time steps and are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-03 Nathan Wiebe , Dominic W. Berry , Peter Hoyer , Barry C. Sanders

The representation of a quantum wave function as a neural network quantum state (NQS) provides a powerful variational ansatz for finding the ground states of many-body quantum systems. Nevertheless, due to the complex variational landscape,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Eimantas Ledinauskas , Egidijus Anisimovas

Simulating time evolution under quantum Hamiltonians is one of the most natural applications of quantum computers. We introduce TE-PAI, which simulates time evolution exactly by sampling random quantum circuits for the purpose of estimating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Chusei Kiumi , Bálint Koczor