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Quantum statistical mechanics allows us to extract thermodynamic information from a microscopic description of a many-body system. A key step is the calculation of the density of states, from which the partition function and all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Alessandro Summer , Cecilia Chiaracane , Mark T. Mitchison , John Goold

The Hamiltonian of an isolated quantum mechanical system determines its dynamics and physical behaviour. This study investigates the possibility of learning and utilising a system's Hamiltonian and its variational thermal state estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Jack Y. Araz , Michael Spannowsky

The concept of quantum complexity has far-reaching implications spanning theoretical computer science, quantum many-body physics, and high energy physics. The quantum complexity of a unitary transformation or quantum state is defined as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-02 Fernando G. S. L. Brandão , Wissam Chemissany , Nicholas Hunter-Jones , Richard Kueng , John Preskill

In this paper we introduce a simple procedure for computing the macroscopic quantum behaviour of periodic quantum systems in the high energy regime. The macroscopic quantum coherence is ascribed to a one-particle state, not to a condensate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Martín-Ruiz , J. Bernal , Adrián Carbajal-Domínguez

We introduce a family of Hamiltonian systems for measurement-based quantum computation with continuous variables. The Hamiltonians (i) are quadratic, and therefore two body, (ii) are of short range, (iii) are frustration-free, and (iv)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-01 Leandro Aolita , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Alessandro Ferraro , Antonio Acín

The ground state energy and the free energy of Quantum Local Hamiltonians are fundamental quantities in quantum many-body physics, however, it is QMA-Hard to estimate them in general. In this paper, we develop new techniques to find…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Thiago Bergamaschi

We present a systematic study of statistical mechanics for non-Hermitian quantum systems. Our work reveals that the stability of a non-Hermitian system necessitates the existence of a single path-dependent conserved quantity, which, in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-04 Kui Cao , Su-Peng Kou

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

Quantum chaos is central to understanding quantum dynamics and is crucial for generating random quantum states, a key resource for quantum information tasks. In this work, we introduce a new class of quantum many-body dynamics, termed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Wonjun Lee , Hyukjoon Kwon , Gil Young Cho

Random unitaries are useful in quantum information and related fields, but hard to generate with limited resources. An approximate unitary $k$-design is an ensemble of unitaries with an underlying measure over which the average is close to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Nicholas LaRacuente , Felix Leditzky

We introduce a randomized algorithm based on qDrift to compute Hamiltonian dynamics on digital quantum computers. We frame it as physDrift because conservation laws in physics are obeyed during evolution of arbitrary quantum states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Songqinghao Yang

We consider the issue of strict, fully discrete \emph{local} energy conservation for a whole class of fully implicit local-charge- and global-energy-conserving particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithms. Earlier studies demonstrated these algorithms…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Luis Chacon , Guangye Chen

More than 15 years ago, a new approach to quantum mechanics was suggested, in which Hermiticity of the Hamiltonian was to be replaced by invariance under a discrete symmetry, the product of parity and time-reversal symmetry, $\mathcal{PT}$.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Kimball A. Milton , E. K. Abalo , Prachi Parashar , Nima Pourtolami , J. Wagner

Early energy-momentum investigations for gravitating systems gave reference frame dependent pseudotensors; later the quasilocal idea was developed. Quasilocal energy-momentum can be determined by the Hamiltonian boundary term, which also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. C. Chang , J. M. Nester , C. M. Chen

Random dynamics in isolated quantum systems is of practical use in quantum information and is of theoretical interest in fundamental physics. Despite a large number of theoretical studies, it has not been addressed how random dynamics can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Masahiro Fujii , Ryosuke Kutsuzawa , Yasunari Suzuki , Yoshifumi Nakata , Masaki Owari

Protecting quantum information from the detrimental effects of decoherence and lack of precise quantum control is a central challenge that must be overcome if a large robust quantum computer is to be constructed. The traditional approach to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Bacon

Inspired by the Hayden-Preskill protocol for black hole evaporation, we consider the dynamics of a quantum many-body qudit system coupled to an external environment, where the time evolution is driven by the continuous limit of certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-14 Lorenzo Piroli , Christoph Sünderhauf , Xiao-Liang Qi

To obtain estimates of electronic energies, the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) technique performs separate measurements for multiple parts of the system Hamiltonian. Current quantum hardware is restricted to projective single-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-22 Artur F. Izmaylov , Tzu-Ching Yen , Robert A. Lang , Vladyslav Verteletskyi

Quantum computing uses the physical principles of very small systems to develop computing platforms which can solve problems that are intractable on conventional supercomputers. There are challenges not only in building the required…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Dieter Jaksch , Peyman Givi , Andrew J. Daley , Thomas Rung

Quantum complexity is a measure of the minimal number of elementary operations required to approximately prepare a given state or unitary channel. Recently, this concept has found applications beyond quantum computing -- in studying the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Michał Oszmaniec , Marcin Kotowski , Michał Horodecki , Nicholas Hunter-Jones