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Inspired by natural cooling processes, dissipation has become a promising approach for preparing low-energy states of quantum systems. However, the potential of dissipative protocols remains unclear beyond certain commuting Hamiltonians.…

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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…

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The Lindblad equation, as one approach to open quantum systems, describes the density matrix of a particle or a chain of interacting particles, which are in contact with a thermal bath. Still, it is not fully understood yet, how arbitrary…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-13 Jan Rais , Hendrik van Hees , Carsten Greiner

We consider a quantum system in contact with a heat bath consisting in an infinite chain of identical sub-systems at thermal equilibrium at inverse temperature $\beta$. The time evolution is discrete and such that over each time step of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephane Attal , Alain Joye

Starting from a microscopic description of weak system-bath interactions, we derive from first principles a quantum master equation that does not rely on the well-known rotating wave approximation. This includes generic many-body systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Matteo Scandi , Álvaro M. Alhambra

The preparation of thermal states of matter is a crucial task in quantum simulation. In this work, we prove that a recently introduced, efficiently implementable dissipative evolution thermalizes to the Gibbs state in time scaling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Cambyse Rouzé , Daniel Stilck França , Álvaro M. Alhambra

Dissipative quantum algorithms for state preparation in many-body systems are increasingly recognised as promising candidates for achieving large quantum advantages in application-relevant tasks. Recent advances in algorithmic,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Štěpán Šmíd , Richard Meister , Mario Berta , Roberto Bondesan

We propose a numerical technique based on a combination of short-iterative Lanczos and exact diagonalization methods, suitable for simulating the time evolution of the reduced density matrix of a single qubit interacting with an…

Building upon recent progress in Lindblad engineering for quantum Gibbs state preparation algorithms, we propose a simplified protocol that is shown to be efficient under the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH). The ETH reduces…

Coupling a many-body localized system to a thermal bath breaks local conservation laws and washes out signatures of localization. When the bath is non-thermal or when the system is also weakly driven, local conserved quantities acquire a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-16 Zala Lenarčič , Ori Alberton , Achim Rosch , Ehud Altman

The problem of simulating the thermal behavior of quantum systems remains a central open challenge in quantum computing. Unlike well-established quantum algorithms for unitary dynamics, \emph{provably efficient} algorithms for preparing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Dominik Hahn , Ryan Sweke , Abhinav Deshpande , Oles Shtanko

Fast-forwarding refers to the ability to simulate a system of time $t$ using significantly fewer than $t$ queries or circuit depth. While various Hamiltonian systems are known to circumvent the no fast-forwarding theorem, analogous results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Zhong-Xia Shang , Dong An , Changpeng Shao

We develop a Markovian master equation in the Lindblad form that enables the efficient study of a wide range of open quantum many-body systems that would be inaccessible with existing methods. The validity of the master equation is based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 Frederik Nathan , Mark S. Rudner

The urgent need for reliable simulation tools to match the extreme accuracy needed to control tailored quantum devices highlights the importance of understanding open quantum systems and their modeling. To this end, we compare here the…

{Many-body quantum states at thermal equilibrium are ubiquitous in nature. Investigating their dynamical properties is a formidable task due to the complexity of the Hilbert space they live in. Quantum computers may have the potential to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Mirko Consiglio , Tony J. G. Apollaro

Preparing thermal and ground states is an essential quantum algorithmic task for quantum simulation. In this work, we construct the first efficiently implementable and exactly detailed-balanced Lindbladian for Gibbs states of arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Chi-Fang Chen , Michael J. Kastoryano , András Gilyén

We present numerical calculations, and simulations performed on a Rydberg atom quantum simulator, of the adiabatic evolution of many-body quantum systems around a quantum phase transition. We demonstrate that the end-to-end transfer error,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Emil T. M. Pedersen , Freek Witteveen , Klaus Mølmer , Matthias Christandl

The standard weak-coupling approximations associated to open quantum systems have been extensively used in the description of a two-level quantum system, qubit, subjected to relatively weak dissipation compared with the qubit frequency.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Wallace S. Teixeira , Fernando L. Semião , Jani Tuorila , Mikko Möttönen

Preparing ground states and thermal states is essential for simulating quantum systems on quantum computers. Despite the hope for practical quantum advantage in quantum simulation, popular state preparation approaches have been challenged.…

The viability of adiabatic quantum computation depends on the slow evolution of the Hamiltonian. The adiabatic switching theorem provides an asymptotic series for error estimates in $1/T$, based on the lowest non-zero derivative of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Thomas D. Cohen , Andrew Li , Hyunwoo Oh , Maneesha Sushama Pradeep