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Characterizing quantum many-body systems is a fundamental problem across physics, chemistry, and materials science. While significant progress has been made, many existing Hamiltonian learning protocols demand digital quantum control over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Sitan Chen , Jordan Cotler , Hsin-Yuan Huang

Hamiltonian learning is an important procedure in quantum system identification, calibration, and successful operation of quantum computers. Through queries to the quantum system, this procedure seeks to obtain the parameters of a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Arkopal Dutt , Edwin Pednault , Chai Wah Wu , Sarah Sheldon , John Smolin , Lev Bishop , Isaac L. Chuang

Simulating Hamiltonian dynamics is one of the most fundamental and significant tasks for characterising quantum materials. Recently, a series of quantum algorithms employing block-encoding of Hamiltonians have succeeded in providing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Kaoru Mizuta

Characterizing noisy quantum devices requires methods for learning the underlying quantum Hamiltonian which governs their dynamics. Often, such methods compare measurements to simulations of candidate Hamiltonians, a task which requires…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Assaf Zubida , Elad Yitzhaki , Netanel H. Lindner , Eyal Bairey

We formalize and study the Hamiltonian certification problem. Given access to $e^{-\mathrm{i} Ht}$ for an unknown Hamiltonian $H$, the goal of the problem is to determine whether $H$ is $\varepsilon_1$-close to or $\varepsilon_2$-far from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Minbo Gao , Zhengfeng Ji , Qisheng Wang , Wenjun Yu , Qi Zhao

The reduction of Hamiltonian systems aims to build smaller reduced models, valid over a certain range of time and parameters, in order to reduce computing time. By maintaining the Hamiltonian structure in the reduced model, certain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Raphaël Côte , Emmanuel Franck , Laurent Navoret , Guillaume Steimer , Vincent Vigon

Time-driven quantum systems are important in many different fields of physics like cold atoms, solid state, optics, etc. Many of their properties are encoded in the time evolution operator which is calculated by using a time-ordered product…

The nature of randomness and complexity growth in systems governed by unitary dynamics is a fundamental question in quantum many-body physics. This problem has motivated the study of models such as local random circuits and their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Laura Cui , Thomas Schuster , Liang Mao , Hsin-Yuan Huang , Fernando Brandao

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

With the fast development of quantum technology, the sizes of both digital and analog quantum systems increase drastically. In order to have better control and understanding of the quantum hardware, an important task is to characterize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Wenjun Yu , Jinzhao Sun , Zeyao Han , Xiao Yuan

We show that the total time of evolution from the initial quantum state to final quantum state and then back to the initial state, i.e., making a round trip along the great circle over S^2, must have a lower bound in quantum mechanics, if…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pulak Ranjan Giri

Learning the unknown Hamiltonian governing the dynamics of a quantum many-body system is a challenging task. In this manuscript, we propose a possible strategy based on repeated measurements on a single time-dependent state. We prove that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-27 Davide Rattacaso , Gianluca Passarelli , Procolo Lucignano

In this paper, we present a proof-of-concept quantum algorithm for simulating time-dependent Hamiltonian evolution by reducing the problem to simulating a time-independent Hamiltonian in a larger space using a discrete clock Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Zecheng Li , Chunhao Wang

Characterizing time-periodic Hamiltonians is pivotal for validating and controlling driven quantum platforms, yet prevailing and unadjusted reconstruction methods demand dense time-domain sampling and heavy post-processing. We introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Keren Li

In this work we combine two distinct machine learning methodologies, sequential Monte Carlo and Bayesian experimental design, and apply them to the problem of inferring the dynamical parameters of a quantum system. We design the algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-10 Christopher E. Granade , Christopher Ferrie , Nathan Wiebe , D. G. Cory

We develop a computational method to learn a molecular Hamiltonian matrix from matrix-valued time series of the electron density. As we demonstrate for three small molecules, the resulting Hamiltonians can be used for electron density…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Harish S. Bhat , Karnamohit Ranka , Christine M. Isborn

The efficient validation of quantum devices is critical for emerging technological applications. In a wide class of use-cases the precise engineering of a Hamiltonian is required both for the implementation of gate-based quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 Agnes Valenti , Evert van Nieuwenburg , Sebastian Huber , Eliska Greplova

Implementing the time evolution under a desired target Hamiltonian is critical for various applications in quantum science. Due to the exponential increase in the number of parameters with system size and experimental imperfections, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Pascal Baßler , Markus Heinrich , Martin Kliesch

We present a new method for proving lower bounds on the expected running time of evolutionary algorithms. It is based on fitness-level partitions and an additional condition on transition probabilities between fitness levels. The method is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Dirk Sudholt

In this work, we consider a fundamental task in quantum many-body physics - finding and learning ground states of quantum Hamiltonians and their properties. Recent works have studied the task of predicting the ground state expectation value…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-16 Štěpán Šmíd , Roberto Bondesan