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Determining the ground state of a many-body Hamiltonian is a central problem across physics, chemistry, and combinatorial optimization, yet it is often classically intractable due to the exponential growth of Hilbert space with system size.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Jungyun Lee , Daniel K. Park

We propose a distinct approach to solving linear and nonlinear differential equations (DEs) on quantum computers by encoding the problem into ground states of effective Hamiltonian operators. Our algorithm relies on constructing such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Hsin-Yu Wu , Annie E. Paine , Evan Philip , Antonio A. Gentile , Oleksandr Kyriienko

Approximating ground and a fixed number of excited state energies, or equivalently low order Hamiltonian eigenvalues, is an important but computationally hard problem. Typically, the cost of classical deterministic algorithms grows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-10 Stuart Hadfield , Anargyros Papageorgiou

The well-known algorithm for quantum phase estimation requires that the considered unitary is available as a conditional transformation depending on the quantum state of an ancilla register. We present an algorithm converting an unknown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dominik Janzing

We discuss classical algorithms for approximating the largest eigenvalue of quantum spin and fermionic Hamiltonians based on semidefinite programming relaxation methods. First, we consider traceless $2$-local Hamiltonians $H$ describing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Sergey Bravyi , David Gosset , Robert Koenig , Kristan Temme

We introduce a reinforcement learning algorithm designed to identify the fixed points of a given quantum operation. The method iteratively constructs the unitary transformation that maps the computational basis onto the basis of fixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 María Laura Olivera-Atencio , Jesús Casado-Pascual , Denis Lacroix

It is difficult to calculate the energy levels and eigenstates of a large physical system on a classical computer because of the exponentially growing size of the Hilbert space. In this work, we experimentally demonstrate a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Zhaokai Li , Xiaomei Liu , Hefeng Wang , Sahel Ashhab , Jiangyu Cui , Hongwei Chen , Xinhua Peng , Jiangfeng Du

We consider the use of quantum error detecting codes, together with energy penalties against leaving the codespace, as a method for suppressing environmentally induced errors in Hamiltonian based quantum computation. This method was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-13 Adam D. Bookatz , Edward Farhi , Leo Zhou

In quantum many-body problems, one of the main difficulties comes from the description of non-negligible interactions which require, at least in principle, an exponential amount of information. Recently, in the context of spin glasses and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-25 Jean Michel Sellier

Many-body localization (MBL) addresses the absence of thermalization in interacting quantum systems, with non-ergodic high-energy eigenstates behaving as ground states, only area-law entangled. However, computing highly excited many-body…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-01-23 Maxime Dupont , Nicolas Laflorencie

Recently a method for adiabatic quantum computation has been proposed and there has been considerable speculation about its efficiency for NP-complete problems. Heuristic arguments in its favor are based on the unproven assumption of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mary Beth Ruskai

We present a quantum algorithm for simulating complex many-body systems and finding their ground states, combining the use of tensor networks and density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) techniques. The algorithm is based on von…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Younes Javanmard

Non-Hermitian physics has emerged as a rich field of study, with applications ranging from $PT$-symmetry breaking and skin effects to non-Hermitian topological phase transitions. Yet most studies remain restricted to small-scale or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Xiao-Ming Zhang , Yukun Zhang , Wenhao He , Xiao Yuan

The development of novel quantum many-body computational algorithms relies on robust benchmarking. However, generating such benchmarks is often hindered by the massive computational resources required for exact diagonalization or quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-29 Wei-Bo He , Yun-Tong Yang , Hong-Gang Luo

The partition function and free energy of a quantum many-body system determine its physical properties in thermal equilibrium. Here we study the computational complexity of approximating these quantities for $n$-qubit local Hamiltonians.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-22 Sergey Bravyi , Anirban Chowdhury , David Gosset , Pawel Wocjan

This article is a brief introduction to quantum algorithms for the eigenvalue problem in quantum many-body systems. Rather than a broad survey of topics, we focus on providing a conceptual understanding of several quantum algorithms that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 Dean Lee

To overcome the limitations of existing algorithms for solving self-bound quantum many-body problems -- such as those encountered in nuclear and particle physics -- that access only a restricted subset of energy levels and provide limited…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-27 Weijie Du , Yangguang Yang , Zixin Liu , Chao Yang , James P. Vary

A milestone in the field of quantum computing will be solving problems in quantum chemistry and materials faster than state-of-the-art classical methods. The current understanding is that achieving quantum advantage in this area will…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Guoming Wang , Daniel Stilck França , Ruizhe Zhang , Shuchen Zhu , Peter D. Johnson

Solving for molecular excited states remains one of the key challenges of modern quantum chemistry. Traditional methods are constrained by existing computational capabilities, limiting the complexity of the molecules that can be studied or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Jules Tilly , Glenn Jones , Hongxiang Chen , Leonard Wossnig , Edward Grant

We propose quantum-selected configuration interaction (QSCI), a class of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms for calculating the ground- and excited-state energies of many-electron Hamiltonians on noisy quantum devices. Suppose that an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-23 Keita Kanno , Masaya Kohda , Ryosuke Imai , Sho Koh , Kosuke Mitarai , Wataru Mizukami , Yuya O. Nakagawa