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Multi-squeezed states, also known as generalized squeezed states, are valuable quantum non-Gaussian resources, because they can feature non-classical properties such as large phase-space Wigner negativities. In this work, we introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-27 Chuan Chen , Jian-Yu Lu , Xu-Yang Chen , Zhen-Yu Wang

Quantum annealers are an alternative approach to quantum computing which make use of the adiabatic theorem to efficiently find the ground state of a physically realizable Hamiltonian. Such devices are currently commercially available and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Justin Copenhaver , Adam Wasserman , Birgit Wehefritz-Kaufmann

While remarkable progress has been achieved in engineering nontrivial Hamiltonians across a wide range of physical platforms, preparing their corresponding nontrivial ground states remains a major experimental challenge. The commonly used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Qin-Qin Wang , Xiao-Ye Xu , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

Quantum state preparation by adiabatic evolution is currently rendered ineffective by the long implementation times of the underlying quantum circuits, comparable to the decoherence time of present and near-term quantum devices. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 E. A. Coello Perez , J. Bonitati , D. Lee , S. Quaglioni , K. A. Wendt

We propose a quantum algorithm, inspired by ADAPT-VQE, to variationally prepare the ground state of a quantum Hamiltonian, with the desirable property that if it fails to find the ground state, it still yields a physically meaningful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Shuchen Zhu , Yu Tong

We propose a circuit-model quantum algorithm for eigenpath traversal that is based on a combination of concepts from Grover's search and adiabatic quantum computation. Our algorithm deploys a sequence of reflections determined from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-11 Jessica Lemieux , Artur Scherer , Pooya Ronagh

Processes related to electronically excited states are central in many areas of science, however accurately determining excited-state energies remains a major challenge in theoretical chemistry. Recently, higher energy stationary states of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 Hugh G. A. Burton , Alex J. W. Thom , Pierre-François Loos

Quantum annealing (QA) is one of the ways to search the ground state of the problem Hamiltonian. Here, we propose the QA scheme to search arbitrary excited states of the problem Hamiltonian. In our scheme, an $n$-th excited state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Yuya Seki , Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Shiro Kawabata

According to the quantum adiabatic theorem, we can in principle obtain a true vacuum of a quantum system starting from a trivial vacuum of a simple Hamiltonian. In actual adiabatic digital quantum simulation with finite time length and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-11 Kazuto Oshima

Adiabatic quantum computation is based on the adiabatic evolution of quantum systems. We analyse a particular class of qauntum adiabatic evolutions where either the initial or final Hamiltonian is a one-dimensional projector Hamiltonian on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Avatar Tulsi

We analyze a scheme for preparation of magnetically ordered states of two-component bosonic atoms in optical lattices. We compute the dynamics during adiabatic and optimized time-dependent ramps to produce ground states of effective spin…

We propose to use a quantum adiabatic and simulated-annealing framework to compute theground state of small molecules. The initial Hamiltonian of our algorithms is taken to be themaximum commuting Hamiltonian that consists of a maximal set…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Hongye Yu , Tzu-Chieh Wei

We report on adiabatic state preparation in the one-dimensional quantum Ising model using ultracold bosons in a tilted optical lattice. We prepare many-body ground states of controllable system sizes and observe enhanced fluctuations around…

We propose new quantum algorithms for thermal and ground state preparation based on system-bath interactions. These algorithms require only forward evolution under a system-bath Hamiltonian in which the bath is a single reusable ancilla…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Zhiyan Ding , Yongtao Zhan , John Preskill , Lin Lin

Quantum algorithms are prominent in the pursuit of achieving quantum advantage in various computational tasks. However, addressing challenges, such as limited qubit coherence and high error rate in near-term devices, requires extensive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Julián Ferreiro-Vélez , Iñaki Iriarte-Zendoia , Yue Ban , Xi Chen

Adiabatic quantum computing is a powerful framework for state preparation, while its evolution time often scales quadratically in the inverse Hamiltonian spectral gap, leading to sub-optimal computational complexity. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Xi Guo , Dong An

Quantum computing promises to efficiently and accurately solve many important problems in quantum chemistry which elude classical solvers, such as the electronic structure problem of highly correlated materials. Two leading methods in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Sean Thrasher , Ioannis Kolotouros , Julien Michel , Petros Wallden

Preparing the ground states of a many-body system is essential for evaluating physical quantities and determining the properties of materials. This work provides a quantum ground state preparation scheme with shallow variational warm-start…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-21 Youle Wang , Chenghong Zhu , Mingrui Jing , Xin Wang

Recently a method for adiabatic quantum computation has been proposed and there has been considerable speculation about its efficiency for NP-complete problems. Heuristic arguments in its favor are based on the unproven assumption of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mary Beth Ruskai

Preparing the ground state of a system is an important task in physics. We propose a quantum algorithm for preparing the ground state of a physical system that can be simulated on a quantum computer. The system is coupled to an ancillary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-14 Hefeng Wang