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Quantum adiabatic computation is a novel paradigm for the design of quantum algorithms, which is usually used to find the minimum of a classical function. In this paper, we show that if the initial hamiltonian of a quantum adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhaohui Wei , Mingsheng Ying

Adiabatic evolution is a powerful technique in quantum information and computation. However, its performance is limited by the adiabatic theorem of quantum mechanics. In this scenario, shortcuts to adiabaticity, such as provided by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-17 Alan C. Santos

In adiabatic quantum computing the aim is to track an eigenstate as the Hamiltonian changes. In the usual setup this is achieved using the natural time-dependent Hamiltonian evolution of the system and the main technical tool is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Joseph Cunningham , Jérémie Roland

In many quantum technologies adiabatic processes are used for coherent quantum state operations, offering inherent robustness to errors in the control parameters. The main limitation is the long operation time resulting from the requirement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-12 A. Vepsäläinen , S. Danilin , G. S. Paraoanu

Adiabatic limit is the presumption of the adiabatic geometric quantum computation and of the adiabatic quantum algorithm. But in reality, the variation speed of the Hamiltonian is finite. Here we develop a general formulation of adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu Shi , Yong-Shi Wu

We study a simple system described by a 2x2 Hamiltonian and the evolution of the quantum states under the influence of a perturbation. More precisely, when the initial Hamiltonian is not degenerate,we check analytically the validity of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-02-28 Christian Brouder , Gabriel Stoltz , Gianluca Panati

Adiabatic evolution is a central paradigm in quantum physics. Digital simulations of adiabatic processes are generally viewed as costly, since algorithmic errors typically accumulate over the long evolution time, requiring exceptionally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Yangyu Lu , Yifei Huang , Dong An , Qi Zhao , Dingshun Lv , Xiao Yuan

Adiabatic quantum computation employs a slow change of a time-dependent control function (or functions) to interpolate between an initial and final Hamiltonian, which helps to keep the system in the instantaneous ground state. When the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-26 Constantin Brif , Matthew D. Grace , Mohan Sarovar , Kevin C. Young

In this paper, we discuss time evolution and adiabatic approximation in $PT$-symmetric quantum mechanics. we give the time evolving equation for a class of $PT$-symmetric Hamiltonians and some conditions of the adiabatic approximation for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-20 Zhihua Guo , Huaixin Cao

Quantum adiabatic evolutions find a broad range of applications in quantum physics and quantum technologies. The traditional form of the quantum adiabatic theorem limits the speed of adiabatic evolution by the minimum energy gaps of the…

We present a perturbative method to estimate the spectral gap for adiabatic quantum optimization, based on the structure of the energy levels in the problem Hamiltonian. We show that for problems that have exponentially large number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. H. S. Amin

Quantum fluctuations driven by non-stoquastic Hamiltonians have been conjectured to be an important and perhaps essential missing ingredient for achieving a quantum advantage with adiabatic optimization. We introduce a transformation that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Elizabeth Crosson , Tameem Albash , Itay Hen , A. P. Young

We investigate the connection between local minima in the problem Hamiltonian and first order quantum phase transitions during an adiabatic quantum computation. We demonstrate how some properties of the local minima can lead to an extremely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. H. S. Amin , V. Choi

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

Adiabatic state preparation provides an analytical solution for generating the ground state of a target Hamiltonian, starting from an easily prepared ground state of the initial Hamiltonian. While effective for time-dependent Hamiltonians…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Zekun He , A. F. Kemper , J. K. Freericks

Workhorse theories throughout all of physics derive effective Hamiltonians to describe slow time evolution, even though low-frequency modes are actually coupled to high-frequency modes. Such effective Hamiltonians are accurate because of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Lukas Gilz , Eike P. Thesing , James R. Anglin

Chemical relaxation phenomena, including photochemistry and electron transfer processes, form a vigorous area of research in which nonadiabatic dynamics plays a fundamental role. Here, we show that for nonadiabatic dynamics with two…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Yanze Wu , Xuezhi Bian , Jonathan Rawlinson , Robert G. Littlejohn , Joseph E. Subotnik

Exceptional points, at which two or more eigenfunctions of a Hamiltonian coalesce, occur in non-Hermitian systems and lead to surprising physical effects. In particular, the behaviour of a system under parameter variation can differ…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Bradley Longstaff , Eva-Maria Graefe

The dynamics of a periodically driven system whose time evolution is governed by the Schr\"{o}dinger equation with non-Hermitian Hamiltonians can be perfectly stable. This finding was only obtained very recently and will be enhanced by many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Jiangbin Gong , Qing-hai Wang

We outline a method based on successive canonical transformations which yields a product expansion for the evolution operator of a general (possibly non-Hermitian) Hamiltonian. For a class of such Hamiltonians this expansion involves a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ali Mostafazadeh