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The preparation and computation of many properties of quantum Gibbs states is essential for algorithms such as quantum semidefinite programming and quantum Boltzmann machines. We propose a quantum algorithm that can predict $M$ linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Luuk Coopmans , Yuta Kikuchi , Marcello Benedetti

Finding the ground states of the Ising Hamiltonian [1] maps to various combinatorial optimization problems in biology, medicine, wireless communications, artificial intelligence, and social network. So far no efficient classical and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-30 Alireza Marandi , Zhe Wang , Kenta Takata , Robert L. Byer , Yoshihisa Yamamoto

We study the complexity of estimating the partition function $\mathsf{Z}(\beta)=\sum_{x\in\chi} e^{-\beta H(x)}$ for a Gibbs distribution characterized by the Hamiltonian $H(x)$. We provide a simple and natural lower bound for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Zherui Chen , Giacomo Nannicini

Quantum systems governed by time-dependent Hamiltonians pose significant challenges for the accurate computation of unitary time-evolution operators, which are essential for predicting quantum state dynamics. In this work, we introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Antonio Guerra , Daniel Uzcategui-Contreras , Aldo Delgado , Esteban S. Gómez

Simulating the time-evolution of quantum mechanical systems is BQP-hard and expected to be one of the foremost applications of quantum computers. We consider classical algorithms for the approximation of Hamiltonian dynamics using…

The Hamiltonian of a quantum system governs the dynamics of the system via the Schrodinger equation. In this paper, the Hamiltonian is reconstructed in the Pauli basis using measurables on random states forming a time series dataset. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Rishabh Gupta , Raja Selvarajan , Manas Sajjan , Raphael D. Levine , Sabre Kais

We study the problem of learning the structure and parameters of the Ising model, a fundamental model of high-dimensional data, when observing the evolution of an associated Markov chain. A recent line of work has studied the natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jason Gaitonde , Ankur Moitra , Elchanan Mossel

For any pair of quantum states, an initial state |I> and a final quantum state |F>, in a Hilbert space, there are many Hamiltonians H under which |I> evolves into |F>. Let us impose the constraint that the difference between the largest and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-04-25 Carl M. Bender

We study the relation between the Ising problem Hamiltonian parameters and the minimum spectral gap (min-gap) of the system Hamiltonian in the Ising-based quantum annealer. The main argument we use in this paper to assess the performance of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-30 Vicky Choi

We introduce a quantum algorithm to efficiently prepare states with a small energy variance at the target energy. We achieve it by filtering a product state at the given energy with a Lorentzian filter of width $\delta$. Given a local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 Reinis Irmejs , Mari Carmen Bañuls , J. Ignacio Cirac

A quantum system will stay near its instantaneous ground state if the Hamiltonian that governs its evolution varies slowly enough. This quantum adiabatic behavior is the basis of a new class of algorithms for quantum computing. We test one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Edward Farhi , Jeffrey Goldstone , Sam Gutmann , Joshua Lapan , Andrew Lundgren , Daniel Preda

We study the complexity of classically sampling from the output distribution of an Ising spin model, which can be implemented naturally in a variety of atomic, molecular, and optical systems. In particular, we construct a specific example…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Bill Fefferman , Michael Foss-Feig , Alexey V. Gorshkov

We study the identity testing problem in the context of spin systems or undirected graphical models, where it takes the following form: given the parameter specification of the model $M$ and a sampling oracle for the distribution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Ivona Bezakova , Antonio Blanca , Zongchen Chen , Daniel Štefankovič , Eric Vigoda

We present a framework to \emph{certify} Hamilton--Jacobi (HJ) reachability learned by reinforcement learning (RL). Building on a discounted initial time \emph{travel-cost} formulation that makes small-step RL value iteration provably…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Prashant Solanki , Isabelle El-Hajj , Jasper J. van Beers , Erik-Jan van Kampen , Coen C. de Visser

Unitary evolution under a time dependent Hamiltonian is a key component of simulation on quantum hardware. Synthesizing the corresponding quantum circuit is typically done by breaking the evolution into small time steps, also known as…

Identifying Hamiltonian of a quantum system is of vital importance for quantum information processing. In this Letter, we realized and benchmarked a quantum Hamiltonian identification algorithm recently proposed [Phys. Rev. Lett.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Shi-yao Hou , Hang Li , Gui-Lu Long

Hamiltonian Learning is a process of recovering system Hamiltonian from measurements, which is a fundamental problem in quantum information processing. In this study, we investigate the problem of learning the symmetric Hamiltonian from its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Jing Zhou , D. L. Zhou

The difficulty of simulating quantum dynamics depends on the norm of the Hamiltonian. When the Hamiltonian varies with time, the simulation complexity should only depend on this quantity instantaneously. We develop quantum simulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 Dominic W. Berry , Andrew M. Childs , Yuan Su , Xin Wang , Nathan Wiebe

A central task in quantum information science is state certification: testing whether an unknown state is $\epsilon_1$-close to a fixed target state, or $\epsilon_2$-far. Recent work has shown that surprisingly simple measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Andrea Coladangelo , Jerry Li , Joseph Slote , Ellen Wu

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