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It is often argued that entanglement is at the root of the speedup for quantum compared to classical computation, and that one needs a sufficient amount of entanglement for this speedup to be manifest. In measurement-based quantum computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Gross , S. Flammia , J. Eisert

Double-bracket quantum imaginary-time evolution (DB-QITE) is a quantum algorithm which coherently implements steps in the Riemannian steepest-descent direction for the energy cost function. DB-QITE is derived from Brockett's double-bracket…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 René Zander , Raphael Seidel , Li Xiaoyue , Marek Gluza

Achieving quantum speedups in practical tasks remains challenging for current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. These devices always encounter significant obstacles such as inevitable physical errors and the limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Riki Toshio , Yutaro Akahoshi , Jun Fujisaki , Hirotaka Oshima , Shintaro Sato , Keisuke Fujii

Determining the role of initial conditions in the late time evolution is a key issue for the theory of nonequilibrium dynamics of isolated quantum systems. Here we extend the theory of quantum quenches to the case in which before the quench…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-13 Gesualdo Delfino , Marianna Sorba

The matrix product state (MPS) ansatz offers a promising approach for finding the ground state of molecular Hamiltonians and solving quantum chemistry problems. Building on this concept, the proposed technique of quantum circuit MPS (QCMPS)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Hao-En Li , Xiang Li , Jia-Cheng Huang , Guang-Ze Zhang , Zhu-Ping Shen , Chen Zhao , Jun Li , Han-Shi Hu

This work is concerned with the excited state quantum phase transitions (ESQPTs) defined in Ann.Phys. 323, 1106 (2008). In many-body models that exhibit such transitions, the ground state quantum phase transition (QPT) occurs in parallel…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-08 Francisco Pérez-Bernal , Lea F. Santos

We study the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of entanglement fluctuations in the $\nu=1$ Quantum Symmetric Simple Exclusion Process, a free-fermion chain with hopping amplitudes that are stochastic in time but homogeneous in space. Previous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-11 Angelo Russotto , Filiberto Ares , Pasquale Calabrese , Vincenzo Alba

Efficient low-energy state preparation is a key objective in quantum computation and quantum simulation. Quantum imaginary-time evolution replaces real-time dynamics with imaginary-time dynamics, exponentially suppressing higher-energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Tal Schwartzman , Torsten V. Zache , Hannes Pichler , H. R. Sadeghpour

Quantum computers have been widely speculated to offer significant advantages in obtaining the ground state of difficult Hamiltonian in chemistry and physics. In this work, we first propose a Lyapunov control-inspired strategy to accelerate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Yu-Cheng Chen , Yu-Qin Chen , Alice Hu , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang

Calculations at finite temperatures are fundamental in different scientific fields, from nuclear physics to condensed matter. Evolution in imaginary time is a prominent classical technique for preparing thermal states of quantum systems. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-30 Francesco Turro

Excited states of many-body quantum systems play a key role in a wide range of physical and chemical phenomena. Unlike ground states, for which many efficient variational techniques exist, there are few ways to systematically construct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 D. A. Millar , L. W. Anderson , E. Altamura , O. Wallis , M. E. Sahin , J. Crain , S. J. Thomson

Quantum information processing requires fast manipulations of quantum systems in order to overcome dissipative effects. We propose a method to accelerate quantum dynamics and obtain a target state in a shorter time relative to unmodified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Shumpei Masuda , Jacob Koenig , Gary A. Steele

Mpemba effect refers to the counterintuitive phenomenon of a hotter system equilibrating faster than a colder system when both are quenched to the same low temperature. For a Brownian particle trapped in a piece-wise linear single well…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-12 Apurba Biswas , R. Rajesh

Non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems has attracted increasing attention owing to a variety of intriguing phenomena absent in equilibrium physics. A prominent example is the quantum Mpemba effect, where subsystem symmetry is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-09 Shuo Liu , Hao-Kai Zhang , Shuai Yin , Shi-Xin Zhang , Hong Yao

Non-unitary state preparation protocols such as imaginary time evolution (ITE) offer substantial advantages relative to unitary ones, including the ability to prepare certain long-range correlated states more efficiently. Here, we ask…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Aleksei Khindanov , Yongxin Yao , Thomas Iadecola

Quantum theory sets a bound on the minimal time evolution between initial and target states. This bound is called as quantum speed limit time. It is used to quantify maximal speed of quantum evolution. The quantum evolution will be faster,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-22 S. Haseli , S. Salimi , H. Dolatkhah , A. S. Khorashad

We investigate the direct and inverse Mpemba effects within the framework of the time-delayed Newton's law of cooling by introducing and analyzing the Descartes protocol, a three-reservoir thermal scheme in which each sample undergoes a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-09 Andrés Santos

Harnessing non-Markovian effects has emerged as a resource for quantum control, where a structured environment can act as a quantum memory. We investigate the quench dynamics from specific initial states to equilibrium steady states in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-28 YuanDong Wang

The Mpemba effect has initially been noticed in macroscopic systems -- namely that hot water can freeze faster than cold water -- but recently its extension to open quantum systems has attracted significant attention. This phenomenon can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Juliane Graf , Janine Splettstoesser , Juliette Monsel

Quantum Amplitude Estimation (QAE) can achieve a quadratic speed-up for applications classically solved by Monte Carlo simulation. A key requirement to realize this advantage is efficient state preparation. If state preparation is too…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Almudena Carrera Vazquez , Stefan Woerner