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We provide a novel approach for characterization of quantum Hamiltonian systems via utilizing a single measurement device. Specifically, we demonstrate how external quantum correlations can be used for Hamiltonian identification tasks. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-23 M. Mohseni , A. T. Rezakhani , A. Aspuru-Guzik

Various Hamiltonian simulation algorithms have been proposed to efficiently study the dynamics of quantum systems on a quantum computer. The existing algorithms generally approximate the time evolution operators, which may need a deep…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Zi-Jian Zhang , Jinzhao Sun , Xiao Yuan , Man-Hong Yung

The local Hamiltonian (LH) problem, the quantum analog of the classical constraint satisfaction problem, is a cornerstone of quantum computation and complexity theory. It is known to be QMA-complete, indicating that it is challenging even…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Yukun Zhang , Yusen Wu , Xiao Yuan

We present a framework to \emph{certify} Hamilton--Jacobi (HJ) reachability learned by reinforcement learning (RL). Building on a discounted initial time \emph{travel-cost} formulation that makes small-step RL value iteration provably…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Prashant Solanki , Isabelle El-Hajj , Jasper J. van Beers , Erik-Jan van Kampen , Coen C. de Visser

A compelling application of quantum computers with thousands of qubits is quantum simulation. Simulating fermionic systems is both a problem with clear real-world applications and a computationally challenging task. In order to simulate a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Emiliia Dyrenkova , Raymond Laflamme , Michael Vasmer

Projective measurements of a single two-level quantum mechanical system (a qubit) evolving under a time-independent Hamiltonian produce a probability distribution that is periodic in the evolution time. The period of this distribution is an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 Christopher Ferrie , Christopher E. Granade , D. G. Cory

Preparing thermal (Gibbs) states is a common task in physics and computer science. Recent algorithms mimic cooling via system-bath coupling, where the cost is determined by mixing time, akin to classical Metropolis-like algorithms. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 David Gamarnik , Bobak T. Kiani , Alexander Zlokapa

We address the question whether the super-Heisenberg scaling for quantum estimation is realizable. We unify the results of two approaches. In the first one, the original system is compared with its copy rotated by the parameter dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Marek M. Rams , Piotr Sierant , Omjyoti Dutta , Paweł Horodecki , Jakub Zakrzewski

Recent advancements in quantum hardware and classical computing simulations have significantly enhanced the accessibility of quantum system data, leading to an increased demand for precise descriptions and predictions of these systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Zheng An , Jiahui Wu , Zidong Lin , Xiaobo Yang , Keren Li , Bei Zeng

Quantum metrology enhances the sensitivity of parameter estimation using the distinctive resources of quantum mechanics such as entanglement. It has been shown that the precision of estimating an overall multiplicative factor of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-31 Shengshi Pang , Todd A. Brun

Consider a Hermitian operator $A$ acting on a complex Hilbert space of dimension $2^n$. We show that when $A$ has small degree in the Pauli expansion, or in other words, $A$ is a local $n$-qubit Hamiltonian, its operator norm can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Lars Becker , Joseph Slote , Alexander Volberg , Haonan Zhang

In this paper, training a neural network is identified, exactly, as a search through Hamilton--Jacobi initial-value problems: each gradient step selects the initial data of a viscous Hamilton--Jacobi equation whose Hopf--Cole propagator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jose Marie Antonio Miñoza , Erika Fille T. Legara , Christopher P. Monterola

The quantum measurement axiom dictates that physical observables and in particular the Hamiltonian must be diagonalizable and have a real spectrum. For a time-independent Hamiltonian (with a discrete spectrum) these conditions ensure the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ali Mostafazadeh

We consider the computational complexity of Hamiltonians which are sums of commuting terms acting on plaquettes in a square lattice of qubits, and we show that deciding whether the ground state minimizes the energy of each local term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-29 Norbert Schuch

Characterizing increasingly complex quantum systems is a central task in quantum information science, yet experimental costs often scale prohibitively with system size. Certifying key properties using simple local measurements is highly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Zhenyu Du , Jinchang Liu , Elias X. Huber , Zi-Wen Liu , Xiongfeng Ma

Known as no fast-forwarding theorem in quantum computing, the simulation time for the Hamiltonian evolution needs to be $O(\|H\| t)$ in the worst case, which essentially states that one can not go across the multiple scales as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-30 Yonah Borns-Weil , Di Fang

The k-local Hamiltonian problem is a natural complete problem for the complexity class QMA, the quantum analog of NP. It is similar in spirit to MAX-k-SAT, which is NP-complete for k<=2. It was known that the problem is QMA-complete for any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julia Kempe , Alexei Kitaev , Oded Regev

A condition on the Hamiltonian of a time-dependent quantum mechanical system is derived which, if satisfied, implies optimal adiabaticity (defined below). The condition is expressed in terms of the Hamiltonian and in terms of the evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-07 R. MacKenzie , M. Pineault , L. Renaud-Desjardins

Despite the successes of machine learning methods in physical sciences, prediction of the Hamiltonian, and thus electronic properties, is still unsatisfactory. Here, based on graph neural network architecture, we present an extendable…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-12 Mao Su , Ji-Hui Yang , Hong-Jun Xiang , Xin-Gao Gong

In this paper, we propose Q-learning algorithms for continuous-time deterministic optimal control problems with Lipschitz continuous controls. Our method is based on a new class of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations derived from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Jeongho Kim , Jaeuk Shin , Insoon Yang