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The properties of strongly-coupled lattice gauge theories at finite density as well as in real time have largely eluded first-principles studies on the lattice. This is due to the failure of importance sampling for systems with a complex…

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The preparation of thermal equilibrium states is important for the simulation of condensed-matter and cosmology systems using a quantum computer. We present a method to prepare such mixed states with unitary operators, and demonstrate this…

Strongly interacting fermions underpin some of the most challenging problems in condensed matter physics, such as high-temperature superconductivity. The low-energy states of these systems encode their essential microscopic properties, yet…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-05 Henning Schlömer , Liyuan Chen , Susanne F. Yelin , Hong-Ye Hu

We establish efficient algorithms for weakly-interacting quantum spin systems at arbitrary temperature. In particular, we obtain a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme for the partition function and an efficient approximate sampling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Ryan L. Mann , Gabriel Waite

We investigate the sampling efficiency for the simulations of quantum many-body systems at finite temperatures when initial sampling states are generated by applying Trotter gates to random phase product states (RPPSs). We restrict the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Shimpei Goto , Ryui Kaneko , Ippei Danshita

We establish an efficient approximation algorithm for the partition functions of a class of quantum spin systems at low temperature, which can be viewed as stable quantum perturbations of classical spin systems. Our algorithm is based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Tyler Helmuth , Ryan L. Mann

The quantum open-system simulation is an important category of quantum simulation. By simulating the thermalisation process at the zero temperature, we can solve the ground-state problem of quantum systems. To realise the open-system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Hong-Yi Su , Ying Li

A central challenge in quantum simulation is to prepare low-energy states of strongly interacting many-body systems. In this work, we study the problem of preparing a quantum state that optimizes a random all-to-all, sparse or dense, spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 Joao Basso , Chi-Fang Chen , Alexander M. Dalzell

Quantifying multipartite entanglement in quantum many-body systems and hybrid quantum computing architectures is a fundamental yet challenging task. In recent years, thermodynamic quantities such as the maximum extractable work from an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Harsh Sharma , Sampriti Saha , A. S. Majumdar , Manik Banik , Himadri Shekhar Dhar

Sampling from Gibbs states -- states corresponding to system in thermal equilibrium -- has recently been shown to be a task for which quantum computers are expected to achieve super-polynomial speed-up compared to classical computers,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Joel Rajakumar , James D. Watson

We investigate the sensing performance of a single-qubit quantum thermometer within a non-Markovian dynamical framework. By employing an exactly numerical hierarchical equations of the motion method, we go beyond traditional paradigms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-18 Ze-Zhou Zhang , Wei Wu

Preparing quantum thermal states on a quantum computer is in general a difficult task. We provide a procedure to prepare a thermal state on a quantum computer with a logarithmic depth circuit of local quantum channels assuming that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Fernando G. S. L. Brandao , Michael J. Kastoryano

We present a quantum algorithm for the microcanonical thermal pure quantum (TPQ) method, which has an advantage in evaluating thermodynamic quantities at finite temperatures, by combining with some recently developed techniques derived from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Kaito Mizukami , Akihisa Koga

Estimating thermal expectation values of observables is a fundamental task in quantum physics, quantum chemistry, and materials science. While recent quantum algorithms have enabled efficient quantum preparation of thermal states,…

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Thermalization of heavy quarks in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is one of the most promising phenomena for understanding the strong interaction. The energy loss and momentum broadening at low momentum can be well described by a stochastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-01 Xiaojian Du , Wenyang Qian

Simulating the nonequilibrium dynamics of thermal states is a fundamental problem across scales from high energy to condensed matter physics. Quantum computers may provide a way to solve this problem efficiently. Preparing a thermal state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-03 Jason Saroni , Henry Lamm , Peter P. Orth , Thomas Iadecola

Quantum simulators have made a remarkable progress towards exploring the dynamics of many-body systems, many of which offer a formidable challenge to both theoretical and numerical methods. While state-of-the-art quantum simulators are in…

We propose an efficient block-encoding technique for the implementation of the Linear Combination of Hamiltonian Simulations (LCHS) for simulating dissipative initial-value problems. This algorithm approximates a target nonunitary operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Ivan Novikau , Ilon Joseph

A measurement-based quantum computer could consist of a local-gapped Hamiltonian system, whose thermal states --at sufficiently low temperature-- are universal resources for the computation. Initialization of the computer would correspond…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 G. H. Aguilar , T. Kolb , D. Cavalcanti , L. Aolita , R. Chaves , S. P. Walborn , P. H. Souto Ribeiro

We introduce a classical algorithm to approximate the free energy of local, translation-invariant, one-dimensional quantum systems in the thermodynamic limit of infinite chain size. While the ground state problem (i.e., the free energy at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi , Samuel O. Scalet