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A recent quantum simulation of observables of the kicked Ising model on 127 qubits implemented circuits that exceed the capabilities of exact classical simulation. We show that several approximate classical methods, based on sparse Pauli…

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Digital quantum simulation is a promising application for quantum computers. Their free programmability provides the potential to simulate the unitary evolution of any many-body Hamiltonian with bounded spectrum by discretizing the time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Adrien Bolens , Markus Heyl

We introduce an extension of the time-dependent variational Monte Carlo (tVMC) method that adaptively controls the expressivity of the variational quantum state during the simulation of the dynamics. This adaptive tVMC (atVMC) approach is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Raffaele Salioni , Rocco Martinazzo , Davide Emilio Galli , Christian Apostoli

We introduce the framework of model space into quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE) to enable stable estimation of ground and excited states using a quantum computer. Model-space QITE (MSQITE) propagates a model space to the exact one by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Takashi Tsuchimochi , Yoohee Ryo , Siu Chung Tsang , Seiichiro L. Ten-no

We present a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for the time evolution of out-of-equilibrium thermal states. The method depends upon classically computing a sparse approximation to the density matrix, and then time-evolving each matrix…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Henry Lamm , Scott Lawrence

We provide a quantum method for simulating Hamiltonian evolution with complexity polynomial in the logarithm of the inverse error. This is an exponential improvement over existing methods for Hamiltonian simulation. In addition, its scaling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-24 Dominic W. Berry , Richard Cleve , Rolando D. Somma

The fundamental question of how to best simulate quantum systems using conventional computational resources lies at the forefront of condensed matter and quantum computation. It impacts both our understanding of quantum materials and our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-29 Juan Carrasquilla , Di Luo , Felipe Pérez , Ashley Milsted , Bryan K. Clark , Maksims Volkovs , Leandro Aolita

We present an exact simulation of a one-dimensional transverse Ising spin chain with a quantum computer. We construct an efficient quantum circuit that diagonalizes the Ising Hamiltonian and allows to obtain all eigenstates of the model by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-24 Alba Cervera-Lierta

We use matrix product techniques to investigate the performance of two algorithms for obtaining the ground state of a quantum many-body Hamiltonian $H = H_A + H_B$ in infinite systems. The first algorithm is a generalization of the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-30 Ruoshui Wang , Timothy H. Hsieh , Guifre Vidal

We numerically investigate quantum circuit elementary-gate level instantiations of the standard Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE) algorithm for the task of computing the ground-state energy of a quantum magnet; the disordered fully-connected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Elijah Pelofske , Stephan Eidenbenz

We apply a worm algorithm to simulate the quantum transverse-field Ising model in a path-integral representation of which the expansion basis is taken as the spin component along the external-field direction. In such a representation, a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-07 Chun-Jiong Huang , Longxiang Liu , Yi Jiang , Youjin Deng

A local and distributive algorithm is proposed to find an optimal trial wave-function minimizing the Hamiltonian expectation in a quantum system. To this end, the quantum state of the system is connected to the Gibbs state of a classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Ramezanpour

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

We propose a phase-difference estimation algorithm based on the tensor-network circuit compression, leveraging time-evolution data to pursue scalability and higher accuracy on a quantum phase estimation (QPE)-type algorithm. Using tensor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Shu Kanno , Kenji Sugisaki , Rei Sakuma , Jumpei Kato , Hajime Nakamura , Naoki Yamamoto

Ground-state preparation is a fundamental task in quantum simulation, because the overlap of the prepared state with the true ground state significantly affects the overall cost of subsequent quantum algorithms. We propose a three-stage…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Masari Watanabe , Hirofumi Nishi , Taichi Kosugi , Shinji Tsuneyuki , Yu-ichiro Matsushita

We demonstrate a post-quench dynamics simulation of a Heisenberg model on present-day IBM quantum hardware that extends beyond the coherence time of the device. This is achieved using a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm that propagates a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Noah F. Berthusen , Thaís V. Trevisan , Thomas Iadecola , Peter P. Orth

Excited states of many-body quantum systems play a key role in a wide range of physical and chemical phenomena. Unlike ground states, for which many efficient variational techniques exist, there are few ways to systematically construct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 D. A. Millar , L. W. Anderson , E. Altamura , O. Wallis , M. E. Sahin , J. Crain , S. J. Thomson

Quantum simulation is a rapidly evolving tool with great potential for research at the frontiers of physics, and is particularly suited to be used in computationally intensive lattice simulations, such as problems with non-equilibrium. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 Jia-Qi Gong , Ji-Chong Yang

We propose an environment recycling scheme to speed up a class of tensor network algorithms that produce an approximation to the ground state of a local Hamiltonian by simulating an evolution in imaginary time. Specifically, we consider the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 Ho N. Phien , Ian P. McCulloch , Guifré Vidal

We propose a method to study dynamical response of a quantum system by evolving it with an imaginary-time dependent Hamiltonian. The leading non-adiabatic response of the system driven to a quantum-critical point is universal and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-28 C. De Grandi , A. Polkovnikov , A. W. Sandvik