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The preparation of the ground state of a Hamiltonian $H$ with a large spectral radius has applications in many areas such as electronic structure theory and quantum field theory. Given an initial state with a constant overlap with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Yulong Dong , Lin Lin

Quantum computers can efficiently simulate Lindbladian dynamics, enabling powerful applications in open system simulation, thermal and ground-state preparation, autonomous quantum error correction, dissipative engineering, and more. Despite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Wenjun Yu , Xiaogang Li , Qi Zhao , Xiao Yuan

We consider Hamiltonian simulation using the first order Lie-Trotter product formula under the assumption that the initial state has a high overlap with an energy eigenstate, or a collection of eigenstates in a narrow energy band. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-26 Changhao Yi , Elizabeth Crosson

We study the limitations and fast-forwarding of quantum algorithms for linear ordinary differential equation (ODE) systems with a particular focus on non-quantum dynamics, where the coefficient matrix in the ODE is not anti-Hermitian or the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Dong An , Jin-Peng Liu , Daochen Wang , Qi Zhao

Gradient descent is a fundamental algorithm in both theory and practice for continuous optimization. Identifying its quantum counterpart would be appealing to both theoretical and practical quantum applications. A conventional approach to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Jiaqi Leng , Ethan Hickman , Joseph Li , Xiaodi Wu

The dynamics of Gaussian states for open quantum systems described by Lindblad equations can be solved analytically for systems with quadratic Hamiltonians and linear Lindbladians, showing the familiar phenomena of dissipation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Robson Christie , Jessica Eastman , Roman Schubert , Eva-Maria Graefe

Gibbs state preparation is an important subroutine in quantum computing. In this work we use the detectability lemma to improve Gibbs state preparation. Specifically, we design new Gibbs state preparation methods that do not rely on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Di Fang , Jianfeng Lu , Yu Tong , Chu Zhao

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

Experimental implementations of Hamiltonian dynamics are often affected by dissipative noise arising from interactions with the environment. This raises the question of whether one can detect the presence or absence of such dissipation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Yiyi Cai

The preparation of Hamiltonian eigenstates is essential for many applications in quantum computing; the efficiency with which this can be done is of key interest. A canonical approach exploits the quantum phase estimation (QPE) algorithm.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-05 Richard Meister , Simon C. Benjamin

In open quantum systems, a basic question at the interface of quantum information, statistical physics, and many-body dynamics is how well can one infer the structure of noise and dissipation generators from finite-time measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Caisheng Cheng , Ruicheng Bao

We derive an effective equation of motion within the steady-state subspace of a large family of Markovian open systems (i.e., Lindbladians) due to perturbations of their Hamiltonians and system-bath couplings. Under mild and realistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-21 Victor V. Albert , Kyungjoo Noh , Florentin Reiter

Estimating the eigenvalues of non-normal matrices is a foundational problem with far-reaching implications, from modeling non-Hermitian quantum systems to analyzing complex fluid dynamics. Yet, this task remains beyond the reach of standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Yukun Zhang , Yusen Wu , Xiao Yuan

Efficient entanglement distillation is a central task in quantum information science and future quantum networks. At the core of distillation protocols are the quantum error correction and detection schemes which enhance the fidelity of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Zitai Xu , Guoding Liu

We show that for the Lindblad evolution defined using (at most) quadratically growing classical Hamiltonians and (at most) linearly growing classical jump functions (quantized into jump operators assumed to satisfy certain ellipticity…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Jeffrey Galkowski , Zhen Huang , Maciej Zworski

Hamiltonian learning protocols are essential tools to benchmark quantum computers and simulators. Yet rigorous methods for time-dependent Hamiltonians and Lindbladians remain scarce despite their wide use. We close this gap by learning the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Daniel Stilck França , Tim Möbus , Cambyse Rouzé , Albert H. Werner

We propose the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Lindbladian as a paradigmatic solvable model of dissipative many-body quantum chaos. It describes $N$ strongly coupled Majorana fermions with random all-to-all interactions, with unitary evolution given by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-04 Lucas Sá , Pedro Ribeiro , Tomaž Prosen

The time evolution of the Wigner function for Gaussian states generated by Lindblad quantum dynamics is investigated in the semiclassical limit. A new type of phase-space dynamics is obtained for the centre of a Gaussian Wigner function,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-01 E M Graefe , B Longstaff , T Plastow , R Schubert

Quantum and classical systems evolving under the same formal Hamiltonian $H$ may dramatically differ after the Ehrenfest timescale $t_E \sim \log(\hbar^{-1})$, even as $\hbar \to 0$. Coupling the system to a Markovian environment results in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Felipe Hernández , Daniel Ranard , C. Jess Riedel

It is by now well understood that quantum dissipative processes can be harnessed and turned into a resource for quantum-information processing tasks. In this paper we demonstrate yet another way in which this is true by providing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Paolo Zanardi , Jeffrey Marshall , Lorenzo Campos Venuti