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While recent advances have established efficient quantum algorithms for preparing Gibbs states of finite-dimensional systems, comparable complexity results for bosonic and other infinite-dimensional models remain unexplored. We introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Simon Becker , Cambyse Rouzé , Robert Salzmann

Finite-temperature properties of strongly correlated quantum matter are central to condensed matter, chemistry, and high-energy physics, yet are often inaccessible to classical methods such as quantum Monte Carlo (QMC). Here, we investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Roland C. Farrell , Yongtao Zhan , Lucas Katschke , Lode Pollet , Ilan T. Rosen , Jad C. Halimeh

We introduce a method for digital preparation of ground states of simulated Hamiltonians, inspired by cooling in nature and adapted to leverage the capabilities of digital quantum hardware. The cold bath is simulated by a single ancillary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Stefano Polla , Yaroslav Herasymenko , Thomas E. O'Brien

Many simulation tasks require that one first prepare a system's Gibbs state. We present a family of quantum circuits for variational preparation of thermal Gibbs states on a quantum computer; we call them the thermal multi-scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 Troy J. Sewell , Christopher David White , Brian Swingle

We present a control scheme for quantum systems coupled to a thermal bath. We demonstrate state-to-state control between two Gibbs states. This scheme can be used to accelerate thermalization and cool the open system. Starting from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Roie Dann , Ander Tobalina , Ronnie Kosloff

While dissipation has traditionally been viewed as an obstacle to quantum coherence, it is increasingly recognized as a powerful computational resource. Dissipative protocols can prepare complex many-body quantum states by leveraging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Lin Lin

Quantum thermalization in contemporary quantum devices, in particular quantum computers, has recently attracted significant theoretical interest. Unusual thermalization processes, such as the Quantum Mpemba Effect (QME), have been explored…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Marc Espinosa Edo , Lian-Ao Wu

We study the thermalization properties of one-dimensional open quantum systems coupled to baths at their boundary. The baths are driven to their thermal states via Lindblad operators, while the system undergoes Hamiltonian dynamics. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-02 Cristian Zanoci , Yongchan Yoo , Brian Swingle

Controlled preparation of highly pure quantum states is at the core of practical applications of quantum information science, from the state initialization of most quantum algorithms to a reliable supply of ancilla qubits that satisfy the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Nayeli A. Rodriguez-Briones , Jun Li , Xinhua Peng , Tal Mor , Yossi Weinstein , Raymond Laflamme

Quantum Mechanical ground states of many-body systems can be important resources for various investigations: for quantum sensing, as the initial state for nonequilibrium quantum dynamics following quenches, and the simulation of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Prashasti Tiwari , Dylan Lewis , Sougato Bose

Pure quantum states play a central role in applications of quantum information, both as initial states for many algorithms and as resources for quantum error correction. Preparation of highly pure states that satisfy the threshold for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Nayeli A. Rodríguez-Briones , Raymond Laflamme

Quantum algorithms for probing ground-state properties of quantum systems require good initial states. Projection-based methods such as eigenvalue filtering rely on inputs that have a significant overlap with the low-energy subspace, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Danial Motlagh , Modjtaba Shokrian Zini , Juan Miguel Arrazola , Nathan Wiebe

Quantum dynamics can be analyzed via the structure of energy eigenstates. However, in the many-body setting, preparing eigenstates associated with finite temperatures requires time scaling exponentially with system size. In this work we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 Samuel J. Garratt , Soonwon Choi

We investigate a probe state preparation protocol based on two non-selective generalized quantum measurements to enhance parameter estimation in single-qubit systems. By fine-tuning the measurement strengths, we demonstrate the ability to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Jonas F. G. Santos , Shanhe Su , Moises Rojas

The preparation of quantum Gibbs state is an essential part of quantum computation and has wide-ranging applications in various areas, including quantum simulation, quantum optimization, and quantum machine learning. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Youle Wang , Guangxi Li , Xin Wang

Heat-Bath Algorithmic Cooling is a set of techniques for producing highly pure quantum systems by utilizing a surrounding heat-bath and unitary interactions. These techniques originally used the thermal environment only to fully thermalize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Álvaro M. Alhambra , Matteo Lostaglio , Christopher Perry

We introduce a method "DMT" for approximating density operators of 1D systems that, when combined with a standard framework for time evolution (TEBD), makes possible simulation of the dynamics of strongly thermalizing systems to arbitrary…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-24 Christopher David White , Michael Zaletel , Roger S. K. Mong , Gil Refael

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

Calculating the properties of Gibbs states is an important task in Quantum Chemistry and Quantum Machine Learning. Previous work has proposed a quantum algorithm which predicts Gibbs state expectation values for $M$ observables from only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Arnav Sharma , Kevin Obenland

Thermal properties of nanomaterials are crucial to not only improving our fundamental understanding of condensed matter systems, but also to developing novel materials for applications spanning research and industry. Since quantum effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-26 Connor Powers , Lindsay Bassman Oftelie , Daan Camps , Wibe A. de Jong