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Simulation of a quantum many-body system at finite temperatures is crucially important but quite challenging. Here we present an experimentally feasible quantum algorithm assisted with continuous-variable for simulating quantum systems at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Dan-Bo Zhang , Guo-Qing Zhang , Zheng-Yuan Xue , Shi-Liang Zhu , Z. D. Wang

We analyze a method for preparing low-entropy many-body states in isolated quantum optical systems of atoms, ions and molecules. Our approach is based upon shifting entropy between different regions of a system by spatially modulating the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-03-12 Michael P. Zaletel , Adam M. Kaufman , Dan M. Stamper-Kurn , Norman Y. Yao

We develop a rigorous system-agnostic method to predict quantum thermalization in an overwhelming fraction of accessible pure states in a many-body system, entirely in terms of certain out-of-time-ordered correlators of few-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Amit Vikram

Simulating many-body systems is one of the most promising applications of near-term quantum computers. An important open question is how to efficiently prepare the ground states of arbitrary fermionic Hamiltonians, especially those with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-01 Gilad Kishony , Mark S. Rudner , Erez Berg

We implement a variational quantum algorithm for Gibbs state preparation of a transverse-field Ising model on IonQ's quantum computers. To this end, we train the variational parameters via classical simulation and perform state tomography…

Quantum technologies require pure states, which are often generated by extreme refrigeration. Heat-bath algorithmic cooling is the theoretically optimal refrigeration technique: it shuttles entropy from a multiparticle system to a thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-10 Aaron Z. Goldberg , Khabat Heshami

Controlled quantum mechanical devices provide a means of simulating more complex quantum systems exponentially faster than classical computers. Such "quantum simulators" rely heavily upon being able to prepare the ground state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-01 Dvir Kafri , Jacob M. Taylor

Quantum cooling, a deterministic process that drives any state to the lowest eigenstate, has been widely used from studying ground state properties of chemistry and condensed matter quantum physics, to general optimization problems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-06 Pei Zeng , Jinzhao Sun , Xiao Yuan

The phase diagram of strong interactions in nature at finite temperature and chemical potential remains largely unexplored theoretically due to inadequacy of Monte-Carlo-based computational techniques in overcoming a sign problem. Quantum…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-03-05 Zohreh Davoudi , Niklas Mueller , Connor Powers

In this work, we study the pairing Hamiltonian with four particles at finite temperatures on a quantum simulator and a superconducting quantum computer. The excited states are obtained by the variational quantum deflation (VQD). The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Chongji Jiang , Junchen Pei

Simulating strongly-correlated quantum many-body systems at finite temperatures is a significant challenge in computational physics. In this work, we present a scalable finite-temperature tensor network algorithm for two-dimensional quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-10 Meng Zhang , Hao Zhang , Chao Wang , Lixin He

We propose incorporating multi-qubit nonunitary operations in Variational Quantum Thermalizers (VQTs). VQTs are hybrid quantum-classical algorithms that generate the thermal (Gibbs) state of a given Hamiltonian, with applications in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Elias Zapusek , Kristina Kirova , Walter Hahn , Michael Marthaler , Florentin Reiter

We investigate quantum thermal state preparation algorithms based on system-bath interactions and uncover a surprising phenomenon in the weak-coupling regime. We rigorously prove that, if the system-bath interaction is engineered so that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Hongrui Chen , Zhiyan Ding , Ruizhe Zhang

We extend and benchmark the recently-developed Effective-Hamiltonian (EFFH) method [PRX Quantum $\bf{4}$, 020307 (2023)] as an approximation to the equilibrium state ("mean-force Gibbs state") of a quantum system at strong coupling to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-03 Nicholas Anto-Sztrikacs , Brett Min , Marlon Brenes , Dvira Segal

Preparing the ground states of a many-body system is essential for evaluating physical quantities and determining the properties of materials. This work provides a quantum ground state preparation scheme with shallow variational warm-start…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-21 Youle Wang , Chenghong Zhu , Mingrui Jing , Xin Wang

Quantum computing has attracted the attention of the scientific community in the past few decades. However, despite some relevant advantages, near-term quantum devices remain severely limited by thermal effects, which induce decoherence and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 G. X. A. Petronilo , M. R. Araújo , A. B. M. Souza , Clebson Cruz

Preparation of low-energy quantum many-body states has a wide range of applications in quantum information processing and condensed matter physics. Quantum cooling algorithms offer a promising alternative to other methods based, for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Daniel Molpeceres , Sirui Lu , J. Ignacio Cirac , Barbara Kraus

The simulation of the dynamics of a system coupled to a low-temperature environment is a promising application of quantum computers to determine ground-state properties of physical systems. However, this approach requires not only the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Tianren Wang , Zongkang Zhang , Bing-Nan Lu , Mauro Cirio , Ying Li

We propose the use of a quantum thermal machine for low-temperature thermometry. A hot thermal reservoir coupled to the machine allows for simultaneously cooling the sample while determining its temperature without knowing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 Patrick P. Hofer , Jonatan Bohr Brask , Martí Perarnau-Llobet , Nicolas Brunner

We address a keystone problem for the progress of phononics: the proposal of efficient thermal diodes. Aiming the disclosure of an easy itinerary for the building of a heat rectifier, we investigate unsophisticated systems linked to simple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Emmanuel Pereira