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This work presents a novel realization approach to Quantum Boltzmann Machines (QBMs). The preparation of the required Gibbs states, as well as the evaluation of the loss function's analytic gradient is based on Variational Quantum Imaginary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-01 Christa Zoufal , Aurélien Lucchi , Stefan Woerner

Ground-state preparation is an important task in quantum computation. The probabilistic imaginary-time evolution (PITE) method is a promising candidate for preparing the ground state of the Hamiltonian, which comprises a single ancilla…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Hirofumi Nishi , Koki Hamada , Yusuke Nishiya , Taichi Kosugi , Yu-ichiro Matsushita

In this paper, we apply the deterministic quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE) algorithm to obtain the ground state of a $2+1$-dimensional pure $\mathbb{Z}_2$ lattice gauge theory. We first construct the set of Pauli operators commuting…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-29 Minoru Sekiyama , Lento Nagano

Finding the ground state of a Hamiltonian system is of great significance in many-body quantum physics and quantum chemistry. We propose an improved iterative quantum algorithm to prepare the ground state of a Hamiltonian. The crucial point…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Jin-Min Liang , Qiao-Qiao Lv , Shu-Qian Shen , Ming Li , Zhi-Xi Wang , Shao-Ming Fei

The real- and imaginary-time evolution of quantum states are powerful tools in physics, chemistry, and beyond, to investigate quantum dynamics, prepare ground states or calculate thermodynamic observables. On near-term devices, variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Julien Gacon , Jannes Nys , Riccardo Rossi , Stefan Woerner , Giuseppe Carleo

Efficiently preparing approximate ground-states of large, strongly correlated systems on quantum hardware is challenging and yet nature is innately adept at this. This has motivated the study of thermodynamically inspired approaches to…

We give a quantum algorithm for solving instances of the satisfiability problem, based on adiabatic evolution. The evolution of the quantum state is governed by a time-dependent Hamiltonian that interpolates between an initial Hamiltonian,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edward Farhi , Jeffrey Goldstone , Sam Gutmann , Michael Sipser

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

Quantum simulation on emerging quantum hardware is a topic of intense interest. While many studies focus on computing ground state properties or simulating unitary dynamics of closed systems, open quantum systems are an interesting target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-21 Hirsh Kamakari , Shi-Ning Sun , Mario Motta , Austin J. Minnich

We calculate the energy levels and corresponding eigenstates of an interacting scalar quantum field theory on a lattice using a continuous-variable version of the quantum imaginary time evolution algorithm. Only a single qumode is needed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Kübra Yeter-Aydeniz , Eleftherios Moschandreou , George Siopsis

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 propose a variational quantum algorithm to study the real time dynamics of quantum systems as a ground-state problem. The method is based on the original proposal of Feynman and Kitaev to encode time into a register of auxiliary qubits.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-16 Stefano Barison , Filippo Vicentini , Ignacio Cirac , Giuseppe Carleo

We propose an imaginary time equivalent of the well-established Pauli gadget primitive for Trotter-decomposed real time evolution, using mid-circuit measurements on a single ancilla qubit. Imaginary time evolution (ITE) is widely used for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Chiara Leadbeater , Nathan Fitzpatrick , David Muñoz Ramo , Alex J. W. Thom

Quantum systems in excited states are attracting significant interest with the advent of noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) devices. While ground states of small molecular systems are typically explored using hybrid variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Cameron Cianci , Lea F. Santos , Victor S. Batista

The Schrodinger equation describes how quantum states evolve according to the Hamiltonian of the system. For physical systems, we have it that the Hamiltonian must be a Hermitian operator to ensure unitary dynamics. For anti-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Swagat Kumar , Colin Michael Wilmott

Quantum computers have the potential to transform the ways in which we tackle some important problems. The efforts by companies like Google, IBM and Microsoft to construct quantum computers have been making headlines for years. Equally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Raffaele Miceli , Michael McGuigan

The problem of finding the ground state energy of a Hamiltonian using a quantum computer is currently solved using either the quantum phase estimation (QPE) or variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithms. For precision $\epsilon$, QPE…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-16 Daochen Wang , Oscar Higgott , Stephen Brierley

Quantum computers have been widely speculated to offer significant advantages in obtaining the ground state of difficult Hamiltonian in chemistry and physics. In this work, we first propose a Lyapunov control-inspired strategy to accelerate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Yu-Cheng Chen , Yu-Qin Chen , Alice Hu , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang

We present a general framework for finding the time-optimal evolution and the optimal Hamiltonian for a quantum system with a given set of initial and final states. Our formulation is based on the variational principle and is analogous to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Carlini , Akio Hosoya , Tatsuhiko Koike , Yosuke Okudaira

The current generation of noisy intermediate scale quantum computers introduces new opportunities to study quantum many-body systems. In this paper, we show that quantum circuits can provide a dramatically more efficient representation than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Sheng-Hsuan Lin , Rohit Dilip , Andrew G. Green , Adam Smith , Frank Pollmann