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Quantum systems governed by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with $\PT$ symmetry are special in having real energy eigenvalues bounded below and unitary time evolution. We argue that $\PT$ symmetry may also be important and present at the level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-30 Carl M Bender , Alexander Felski , S P Klevansky , Sarben Sarkar

Determining the ground state of a many-body Hamiltonian is a central problem across physics, chemistry, and combinatorial optimization, yet it is often classically intractable due to the exponential growth of Hilbert space with system size.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Jungyun Lee , Daniel K. Park

To overcome the limitations of existing algorithms for solving self-bound quantum many-body problems -- such as those encountered in nuclear and particle physics -- that access only a restricted subset of energy levels and provide limited…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-27 Weijie Du , Yangguang Yang , Zixin Liu , Chao Yang , James P. Vary

One limitation of the variational quantum eigensolver algorithm is the large number of measurement steps required to estimate different terms in the Hamiltonian of interest. Unitary partitioning reduces this overhead by transforming the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Alexis Ralli , Peter Love , Andrew Tranter , Peter Coveney

A nonconventional renormalization-group (RG) treatment close to and below four dimensions is used to explore, in a unified and systematic way, the low-temperature properties of a wide class of systems in the influence domain of their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. T. Mercaldo , L. De Cesare , I. Rabuffo , A. Caramico D'Auria

The recently derived input-output relations for the radiation field at a dispersive and absorbing four-port device [T. Gruner and D.-G. Welsch, Phys. Rev. A 54, 1661 (1996)] are used to derive the unitary transformation that relates the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Knoell , S. Scheel , E. Schmidt , D. -G. Welsch

Exact unitary transformations play a central role in the analysis and simulation of many-body quantum systems, yet the conditions under which they can be carried out exactly and efficiently remain incompletely understood. We show that exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Praveen Jayakumar , Tao Zeng , Artur F. Izmaylov

It is shown that any two Hamiltonians H(t) and H'(t) of N dimensional quantum systems can be related by means of time-dependent canonical transformations (CT). The dynamical symmetry group of system with Hamiltonian H(t) coincides with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. A. Trifonov

The fabrication, utilisation, and efficiency of quantum technologies rely on a good understanding of quantum thermodynamic properties. Many-body systems are often used as hardware for these quantum devices, but interactions between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-26 Krissia Zawadzki , Amy Skelt , Irene D'Amico

Hoeffding's formulation and solution to the universal hypothesis testing (UHT) problem had a profound impact on many subsequent works dealing with asymmetric hypotheses. In this work, we introduce a quantum universal hypothesis testing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Arick Grootveld , Haodong Yang , Biao Chen , Venkata Gandikota , Jason Pollack

Quantum process tomography conventionally uses a multitude of initial quantum states and then performs state tomography on the process output. Here we propose and study an alternative approach which requires only a single (or few) known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-09 Irene López Gutiérrez , Felix Dietrich , Christian B. Mendl

We prove the existence of a unitary transformation that enables two arbitrarily given Hamiltonians in the same Hilbert space to be transformed into one another. The result is straightforward yet, for example, it lays the foundation to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-09 Lian-Ao Wu , Dvira Segal

A non-Hermitian operator with a real spectrum and a complete set of eigenvectors may serve as the Hamiltonian operator for a unitary quantum system provided that one makes an appropriate choice for the defining inner product of the physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ali Mostafazadeh

The preparation of quantum states, especially cooling, is a fundamental technology for nanoscale devices. The past decade has seen important results related to both the limits of state transformation and the limits to their efficiency --…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Ralph Silva , Pharnam Bakhshinezhad , Fabien Clivaz

We review the well-known Hellmann Feynman Theorem (HFT), originally developed for Hermitian systems to facilitate the calculation of forces among the molecules. Our work extends this foundational theorem to the domain of non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Gaurav Hajong , Bhabani Prasad Mandal

We investigate the transport properties of the Holstein model using the numerically exact quantum typicality (QT) approach. Roughly speaking, QT exploits the fact that even a single, randomly chosen pure state can effectively represent the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-20 Petar Mitrić

Quantum systems with a finite number of states at all times have been a primary element of many physical models in nuclear and elementary particle physics, as well as in condensed matter physics. Today, however, due to a practical demand in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Arsen Khvedelidze , Dimitar Mladenov , Astghik Torosyan

This paper introduces a novel approach to implementing non-unitary linear transformations of basis on quantum computational platforms, a significant leap beyond the conventional unitary methods. By integrating Singular Value Decomposition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Guorui Zhu , Joel Bierman , Jianfeng Lu , Yingzhou Li

The use of geometric methods has proved useful in the hamiltonian description of classical constrained systems. In this note we provide the first steps toward the description of the geometry of quantum constrained systems. We make use of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alejandro Corichi

The translation invariant model in quantum field theory is considered by functional integrations. Ultraviolet renormalization of the translation invariant Nelson model with a fixed total momentum is proven by functional integrations. As a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Fumio Hiroshima