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Many current and near-future applications of quantum computing utilise parametric families of quantum circuits and variational methods to find optimal values for these parameters. Solving a quantum computational problem with such…

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In this paper we develop a quantum algorithm to realize finite temperature simulation on a quantum computer. As quantum computers use real-time evolution we did not use the imaginary time methods popular on classical algorithms. Instead, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-11 Raffaele Miceli , Michael McGuigan

The preparation and computation of many properties of quantum Gibbs states is essential for algorithms such as quantum semidefinite programming and quantum Boltzmann machines. We propose a quantum algorithm that can predict $M$ linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Luuk Coopmans , Yuta Kikuchi , Marcello Benedetti

We propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for solving QUBO problems using an Imaginary Time Evolution-Mimicking Circuit (ITEMC). The circuit parameters are optimized to closely mimic imaginary time evolution, using only single- and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Yahui Chai , Alice Di Tucci

There is increasing interest in quantum algorithms that are based on the imaginary-time evolution (ITE), a successful classical numerical approach to obtain ground states. However, most of the proposals so far require heavy post-processing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-05 Pejman Jouzdani , Calvin W. Johnson , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Ionel Stetcu

The quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE) methodology was developed to overcome a critical issue as regards non-unitarity in the implementation of imaginary time evolution on a quantum computer. QITE has since been used to approximate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 Swagat Kumar , Colin Michael Wilmott

The current generation of noisy intermediate scale quantum computers introduces new opportunities to study quantum many-body systems. In this paper, we show that quantum circuits can provide a dramatically more efficient representation than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Sheng-Hsuan Lin , Rohit Dilip , Andrew G. Green , Adam Smith , Frank Pollmann

We revisit quantum phase estimation algorithms for the purpose of obtaining the energy levels of many-body Hamiltonians and pay particular attention to the statistical analysis of their outputs. We introduce the mean phase direction of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-20 P. M. Q. Cruz , G. Catarina , R. Gautier , J. Fernández-Rossier

A fast implementation of the quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE) algorithm called Fast QITE is proposed. The algorithmic cost of QITE typically scales exponentially with the number of particles it nontrivially acts on in each Trotter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-28 Kok Chuan Tan

Quantum simulation is one of the most promising scientific applications of quantum computers. Due to decoherence and noise in current devices, it is however challenging to perform digital quantum simulation in a regime that is intractable…

Quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE) is a recently proposed quantum-classical hybrid algorithm that is guaranteed to reach the lowest state of system. In this study, we present several improvements on QITE, mainly focusing on molecular…

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

Imaginary-time evolution, an important technique in tensor network and quantum Monte Carlo algorithms on classical computers, has recently been adapted to quantum computing. In this study, we focus on probabilistic imaginary-time evolution…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-27 Satoshi Ejima , Kazuhiro Seki , Benedikt Fauseweh , Seiji Yunoki

We show that quantum nondemolition (QND) measurements can be used to realize measurement-based imaginary time evolution. In our proposed scheme, repeated weak QND measurements are used to estimate the energy of a given Hamiltonian. Based on…

Hamiltonian diagonalization is at the heart of understanding physical properties and practical applications of quantum systems. It is highly desired to design quantum algorithms that can speedup Hamiltonian diagonalization, especially those…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-23 Jinfeng Zeng , Chenfeng Cao , Chao Zhang , Pengxiang Xu , Bei Zeng

We introduce a method to perform imaginary time evolution in a controllable quantum system using measurements and conditional unitary operations. By performing a sequence of weak measurements based on the desired Hamiltonian constructed by…

Despite its simplicity and strong theoretical guarantees, adiabatic state preparation has received considerably less interest than variational approaches for the preparation of low-energy electronic structure states. Two major reasons for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Etienne Granet , Khaldoon Ghanem , Henrik Dreyer

Emulating thermal observables on a digital quantum computer is essential for quantum simulation of many-body physics. However, thermalization typically requires a large system size due to incorporating a thermal bath, whilst limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 H. Perrin , T. Scoquart , A. I. Pavlov , N. V. Gnezdilov

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

Quantum dynamics simulation via Hamilton simulation algorithms is one of the most crucial applications in the quantum computing field. While this task has been relatively considered the target in the fault-tolerance era, the experiment for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Shigeo Hakkaku , Yasunari Suzuki , Yuuki Tokunaga , Suguru Endo

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