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We study the problem of learning Hamiltonians $H$ that are $s$-sparse in the Pauli basis, given access to their time evolution. Although Hamiltonian learning has been extensively investigated, two issues recur in much of the existing…

Characterizing quantum systems by learning their underlying Hamiltonians is a central task in quantum information science. While recent algorithmic advances have achieved near-optimal efficiency in this task, they critically rely on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Myeongjin Shin , Junseo Lee , Changhun Oh

We study the problem of learning a $k$-body Hamiltonian with $M$ unknown Pauli terms that are not necessarily geometrically local. We propose a protocol that learns the Hamiltonian to precision $\epsilon$ with total evolution time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 Muzhou Ma , Steven T. Flammia , John Preskill , Yu Tong

Hybrid quantum systems with different particle species are fundamental in quantum materials and quantum information science. In this work, we establish a rigorous theoretical framework proving that, given access to an unknown spin-boson…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Lixing Zhang , Ze-Xun Lin , Prineha Narang , Di Luo

We study the problem of learning a Hamiltonian $H$ to precision $\varepsilon$, supposing we are given copies of its Gibbs state $\rho=\exp(-\beta H)/\operatorname{Tr}(\exp(-\beta H))$ at a known inverse temperature $\beta$. Anshu,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Jeongwan Haah , Robin Kothari , Ewin Tang

The (tolerant) Hamiltonian locality testing problem, introduced in [Bluhm, Caro,Oufkir `24], is to determine whether a Hamiltonian $H$ is $\varepsilon_1$-close to being $k$-local (i.e. can be written as the sum of weight-$k$ Pauli…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 John Kallaugher , Daniel Liang

We consider the problems of testing and learning an unknown $n$-qubit Hamiltonian $H$ from queries to its evolution operator $e^{-iHt}$ under the normalized Frobenius norm. We prove: 1. Local Hamiltonians: We give a tolerant testing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Srinivasan Arunachalam , Arkopal Dutt , Francisco Escudero Gutiérrez

We propose a novel, efficient approach for distributed sparse learning in high-dimensions, where observations are randomly partitioned across machines. Computationally, at each round our method only requires the master machine to solve a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-26 Jialei Wang , Mladen Kolar , Nathan Srebro , Tong Zhang

We study the problem of learning general (i.e., not necessarily homogeneous) halfspaces with Random Classification Noise under the Gaussian distribution. We establish nearly-matching algorithmic and Statistical Query (SQ) lower bound…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Puqian Wang , Nikos Zarifis

We present an efficient algorithm for simulating the time evolution due to a sparse Hamiltonian. In terms of the maximum degree d and dimension N of the space on which the Hamiltonian H acts for time t, this algorithm uses (d^2(d+log*…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-26 Andrew M. Childs , Robin Kothari

This work proposes a protocol for Fermionic Hamiltonian learning. For the Hubbard model defined on a bounded-degree graph, the Heisenberg-limited scaling is achieved while allowing for state preparation and measurement errors. To achieve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Hongkang Ni , Haoya Li , Lexing Ying

The problem of simulating sparse Hamiltonians on quantum computers is well studied. The evolution of a sparse N x N Hamiltonian H for time t can be simulated using O(||Ht||poly(log N)) operations, which is essentially optimal due to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 Andrew M. Childs , Robin Kothari

In this work, we study the problems of certifying and learning quantum Ising Hamiltonians. Our main contributions are as follows: Certification of Ising Hamiltonians. We show that certifying an Ising Hamiltonian in normalized Frobenius norm…

We present a quantum algorithm for approximating the real time evolution $e^{-iHt}$ of an arbitrary $d$-sparse Hamiltonian to error $\epsilon$, given black-box access to the positions and $b$-bit values of its non-zero matrix entries. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-15 Guang Hao Low

We study the problem of Hamiltonian structure learning from real-time evolution: given the ability to apply $e^{-\mathrm{i} Ht}$ for an unknown local Hamiltonian $H = \sum_{a = 1}^m \lambda_a E_a$ on $n$ qubits, the goal is to recover $H$.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Ainesh Bakshi , Allen Liu , Ankur Moitra , Ewin Tang

Projective measurements of a single two-level quantum mechanical system (a qubit) evolving under a time-independent Hamiltonian produce a probability distribution that is periodic in the evolution time. The period of this distribution is an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 Christopher Ferrie , Christopher E. Granade , D. G. Cory

Learning about a Hamiltonian $H$ from its time evolution $e^{-iHt}$ is a fundamental task in quantum science. A flurry of recent work has developed powerful new algorithms with provable guarantees for this task, for a variety of natural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Ziyun Chen , Jerry Li , Joseph Slote

We study the problem of Hamiltonian sparsification: given a parameter $\varepsilon \in (0,1)$ and an $n$-qubit Hamiltonian $H$ which is the sum of $r$-local positive semi-definite (PSD) terms $H_1, \dots H_m$, our goal is to compute a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Arpon Basu , Joshua Brakensiek , Aaron Putterman

We develop a protocol for learning a class of interacting bosonic Hamiltonians from dynamics with Heisenberg-limited scaling. For Hamiltonians with an underlying bounded-degree graph structure, we can learn all parameters with root mean…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Haoya Li , Yu Tong , Hongkang Ni , Tuvia Gefen , Lexing Ying

We present an efficient quantum algorithm for simulating the evolution of a sparse Hamiltonian H for a given time t in terms of a procedure for computing the matrix entries of H. In particular, when H acts on n qubits, has at most a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dominic W. Berry , Graeme Ahokas , Richard Cleve , Barry C. Sanders
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