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Quantum computing employs controllable interactions to perform sequences of logical gates and entire algorithms on quantum registers. This paradigm has been widely explored, e.g., for simulating dynamics of manybody systems by decomposing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 S. Alipour , A. T. Rezakhani , Alireza Tavanfar , K. Mölmer , T. Ala-Nissila

Estimating observable expectation values in eigenstates of quantum systems has a broad range of applications and is an area where early fault-tolerant quantum computers may provide practical quantum advantage. We develop a hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Bence Bakó , Tenzan Araki , Bálint Koczor

We review the effects of excited-state quantum phase transitions (ESQPTs) in interacting many-body systems with finite numbers of collective degrees of freedom. We classify typical ESQPT signatures in the spectra of energy eigenstates with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Pavel Cejnar , Pavel Stránský , Michal Macek , Michal Kloc

Many computationally hard problems can be encoded in quantum Hamiltonians. The solution to these problems is given by the ground states of these Hamiltonians. A state-of-the-art algorithm for finding the ground state of a Hamiltonian is the…

Electronic excited states are central to a vast array of physical and chemical phenomena, yet accurate and efficient methods for preparing them on quantum devices remain challenging and comparatively underexplored. We introduce a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Hao-En Li , Lin Lin

We investigate signatures of the excited-state quantum phase transition in the periodic dynamics of the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model and the Tavis-Cummings model. In the thermodynamic limit, expectation values of observables in eigenstates of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-05 G. Engelhardt , V. M. Bastidas , W. Kopylov , T. Brandes

Variational methods have offered controllable and powerful tools for capturing many-body quantum physics for decades. The recent introduction of expressive neural network quantum states has enabled the accurate representation of a broad…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Matija Medvidović , Alev Orfi , Juan Carrasquilla , Dries Sels

We introduce a constructive method for mapping non-unitary dynamics to a weighted set of unitary operations. We utilize this construction to derive a new correspondence between real and imaginary time, which we term Imaginary Time Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Jacob M. Leamer , Alicia B. Magann , Denys I. Bondar , Gerard McCaul

We introduce an adiabatic state preparation protocol which implements quantum imaginary time evolution under the Hamiltonian of the system. Unlike the original quantum imaginary time evolution algorithm, adiabatic quantum imaginary time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Kasra Hejazi , Mario Motta , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

We introduce a variational wavefunction for many-body ground states that involves imaginary time evolution with two different Hamiltonians in an alternating fashion with variable time intervals. We successfully apply the ansatz on the one-…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-25 Matthew J. S. Beach , Roger G. Melko , Tarun Grover , Timothy H. Hsieh

The calculation of excited state energies of electronic structure Hamiltonians has many important applications, such as the calculation of optical spectra and reaction rates. While low-depth quantum algorithms, such as the variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Oscar Higgott , Daochen Wang , Stephen Brierley

Computing excitation spectra of quantum many-body systems is a promising avenue to demonstrate the practical utility of current noisy quantum devices, especially as we move toward the ``megaquop'' regime. For this task, here we introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Ji-Yao Chen , Bochen Huang , D. L. Zhou , Norbert Schuch , Chenfeng Cao , Muchun Yang

One of the key applications for the emerging quantum simulators is to emulate the ground state of many-body systems, as it is of great interest in various fields from condensed matter physics to material science. Traditionally, in an analog…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-18 Chufan Lyu , Victor Montenegro , Abolfazl Bayat

Spontaneous breaking of continuous time translation symmetry into a discrete one is related to time crystal formation. While the phenomenon is not possible in the ground state of a time-independent many-body system, it can occur in an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-08-21 Arkadiusz Kosior , Andrzej Syrwid , Krzysztof Sacha

Excited state quantum phase transitions (ESQPTs) are generalizations of quantum phase transitions (QPTs) to excited levels. They are associated with local divergences in the density of states. Here, we investigate how the presence of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-27 Lea F. Santos , Marco Távora , Francisco Pérez-Bernal

The spectral gap occupies a role of central importance in many open problems in physics. We present an approach for evaluating the spectral gap of a Hamiltonian from a simple ratio of two expectation values, both of which are evaluated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Jacob M. Leamer , Alicia B. Magann , Gerard McCaul , Denys I. Bondar

Stochastic quantum trajectories, such as pure state evolutions under unitary dynamics and random measurements, offer a crucial ensemble description of many-body open system dynamics. Recent studies have highlighted that individual quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Shivan Mittal , Bin Yan

Complex potential transformations which add imaginary parts to chosen energy levels are given and qualitatively explained. Unexpected shape similarity of potential perturbations for real and imaginary E-shifts of bound states are exhibited.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Chabanov , B. N. Zakhariev

Quantum computing has the potential to transform simulations of quantum many-body problems at the heart of electronic structure theory. Efficient quantum algorithms to compute the eigenstates of fermionic Hamiltonians, such as quantum phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Hugh G. A. Burton , Maria-Andreea Filip

Adiabatic quantum computing enables the preparation of many-body ground states. This is key for applications in chemistry, materials science, and beyond. Realisation poses major experimental challenges: Direct analog implementation requires…