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Quantum state preparation through external control is fundamental to established methods in quantum information processing and in studies of dynamics. In this respect, excitons in semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are of particular interest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-05 Celestino Creatore , Richard T. Brierley , Richard T. Phillips , Peter B. Littlewood , Paul R. Eastham

Variational methods have offered controllable and powerful tools for capturing many-body quantum physics for decades. The recent introduction of expressive neural network quantum states has enabled the accurate representation of a broad…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Matija Medvidović , Alev Orfi , Juan Carrasquilla , Dries Sels

Utilizing quantum computer to investigate quantum chemistry is an important research field nowadays. In addition to the ground-state problems that have been widely studied, the determination of excited-states plays a crucial role in the…

Quantum algorithms for probing ground-state properties of quantum systems require good initial states. Projection-based methods such as eigenvalue filtering rely on inputs that have a significant overlap with the low-energy subspace, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Danial Motlagh , Modjtaba Shokrian Zini , Juan Miguel Arrazola , Nathan Wiebe

Preparation of a target quantum many-body state on quantum simulators is one of the significant steps in quantum science and technology. With a small number of qubits, a few quantum states, such as the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 Donggyu Kim , Eun-Gook Moon

The Hubbard model is a challenging quantum many-body problem and serves as a benchmark for quantum computing research. Accurate computation of its ground and excited state energies is essential for understanding correlated electron systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Mrinal Dev , Bikash K. Behera , Vivek Vyas , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

Electronically excited states of molecules are at the heart of photochemistry, photophysics, as well as photobiology and also play a role in material science. Their theoretical description requires highly accurate quantum chemical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-15 Julia Westermayr , Philipp Marquetand

Preparation of a specific quantum state is a required step for a variety of proposed practical uses of quantum dynamics. We report an experimental demonstration of optical quantum state preparation in a semiconductor quantum dot with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 Yanwen Wu , I. M. Piper , M. Ediger , P. Brereton , E. R. Schmidgall , M. Hugues , M. Hopkinson , R. T. Phillips

In the construction of diabatic vibronic Hamiltonians for quantum dynamics in the excited-state manifold of molecules, the coupling constants are often extracted solely from information on the excited-state energies. Here, a new protocol is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-04-02 Maria Fumanal , Felix Plasser , Sebastian Mai , Chantal Daniel , Etienne Gindensperger

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

The efficient calculation of Hamiltonian spectra, a problem often intractable on classical machines, can find application in many fields, from physics to chemistry. Here, we introduce the concept of an "eigenstate witness" and through it…

Over the last century, a large number of physical and mathematical developments paired with rapidly advancing technology have allowed the field of quantum chemistry to advance dramatically. However, the lack of computationally efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-08 James D. Whitfield , Jacob Biamonte , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Quantum computers are a highly promising tool for efficiently simulating quantum many-body systems. The preparation of their eigenstates is of particular interest and can be addressed, e.g., by quantum phase estimation algorithms. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Xiaoyu Liu , Benjamin F. Schiffer , Jordi Tura

We propose a simple, robust protocol to prepare a low-energy state of an arbitrary Hamiltonian on a quantum computer or programmable quantum simulator. The protocol is inspired by the adiabatic demagnetization technique, used to cool…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Anne Matthies , Mark Rudner , Achim Rosch , Erez Berg

Adiabatic quantum computing enables the preparation of many-body ground states. This is key for applications in chemistry, materials science, and beyond. Realisation poses major experimental challenges: Direct analog implementation requires…

This paper explores several aspects of the adiabatic quantum computation model. We first show a way that directly maps any arbitrary circuit in the standard quantum computing model to an adiabatic algorithm of the same depth. Specifically,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Stewart Siu

We introduce a quantum algorithm to efficiently prepare states with a small energy variance at the target energy. We achieve it by filtering a product state at the given energy with a Lorentzian filter of width $\delta$. Given a local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 Reinis Irmejs , Mari Carmen Bañuls , J. Ignacio Cirac

NISQ era devices suffer from a number of challenges like limited qubit connectivity, short coherence times and sizable gate error rates. Thus, quantum algorithms are desired that require shallow circuit depths and low qubit counts to take…

The preparation of Gibbs thermal states is an important task in quantum computation with applications in quantum simulation, quantum optimization, and quantum machine learning. However, many algorithms for preparing Gibbs states rely on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Ada Warren , Linghua Zhu , Nicholas J. Mayhall , Edwin Barnes , Sophia E. Economou

Preparation of quantum thermal states of many-body systems is a key computational challenge for quantum processors, with applications in physics, chemistry, and classical optimization. We provide a simple and efficient algorithm for thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Jerome Lloyd , Dmitry A. Abanin