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The quantum k-Local Hamiltonian problem is a natural generalization of classical constraint satisfaction problems (k-CSP) and is complete for QMA, a quantum analog of NP. Although the complexity of k-Local Hamiltonian problems has been well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Ojas Parekh , Kevin Thompson

The sign problem is a widespread numerical hurdle preventing us from simulating the equilibrium behavior of various problems at the forefront of physics. Focusing on an important sub-class of such problems, bosonic $(2+1)$-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-09 Adam Smith , Omri Golan , Zohar Ringel

We develop a master equation formalism to describe the evolution of the average density matrix of a closed quantum system driven by a stochastic Hamiltonian. The average over random processes generally results in decoherence effects in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-30 Li Yu , Daniel F. V. James

This work extends weak KAM theory to the case of a nonsmooth Lagrangian satisfying a superlinear growth condition. Using the solution of a weak KAM equation that is a stationary Hamilton-Jacobi equation and the proximal aiming method, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Yurii Averboukh

The problem of estimating the spectral gap of a local Hamiltonian is known to be contained in the class $P^{QMA[log]}$: polynomial time with access to a logarithmic number of QMA queries. The problem was shown to be hard for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-05 Justin Yirka

Hamilton's equations with noise and friction possess a hidden supersymmetry, valid for time-independent as well as periodically time-dependent systems. It is used to derive topological properties of critical points and periodic trajectories…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julien Tailleur , Sorin Tanase-Nicola , Jorge Kurchan

We prove stability of the spectral gap for gapped, frustration-free Hamiltonians under general, quasi-local perturbations. We present a necessary and sufficient condition for stability, which we call "Local Topological Quantum Order" and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-22 Spyridon Michalakis , Justyna Pytel

A candidate application for quantum computers is to simulate the low-temperature properties of quantum systems. For this task, there is a well-studied quantum algorithm that performs quantum phase estimation on an initial trial state that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Chi-Fang , Chen , Alexander M. Dalzell , Mario Berta , Fernando G. S. L. Brandão , Joel A. Tropp

Solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation $H(x,-Du(x))=1$, with $H(\cdot,p)$ H\"older continuous and $H(x,\cdot)$ convex and positively homogeneous of degree 1, are shown to be locally semiconcave with a power-like modulus. An essential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-20 Piermarco Cannarsa , Pierre Cardaliaguet

The present article introduces a generalization of the (multisymplectic) Hamiltonian field theory for a Lagrangian density, allowing the formulation of this kind of field theories for variational problem of more general nature than those…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Guadalupe Quijón , Santiago Capriotti

$\mathsf{StoqMA}$ captures the computational hardness of approximating the ground energy of local Hamiltonians that do not suffer the so-called sign problem. We provide a novel connection between $\mathsf{StoqMA}$ and distribution testing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Yupan Liu

This paper is concerned with the computational complexity of learning the Hidden Markov Model (HMM). Although HMMs are some of the most widely used tools in sequential and time series modeling, they are cryptographically hard to learn in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Sham M. Kakade , Akshay Krishnamurthy , Gaurav Mahajan , Cyril Zhang

In this work, we give a polynomial-time quantum algorithm for solving the ground states of a class of classically hard Hamiltonians. The mechanism of the exponential speedup that appeared in our algorithm comes from dissipation in open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Zhong-Xia Shang , Zi-Han Chen , Chao-Yang Lu , Jian-Wei Pan , Ming-Cheng Chen

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

Estimating the ground state energy of a local Hamiltonian is a central problem in quantum chemistry. In order to further investigate its complexity and the potential of quantum algorithms for quantum chemistry, Gharibian and Le Gall (STOC…

The stochastic partial differential equation analyzed in this work is the Cahn-Hilliard equation perturbed by an additive fractional white noise (fractional in time and white in space). We work in the case of one spatial dimension and apply…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Dimitrios Dimitriou , Dimitris Farazakis , Georgia Karali

The negativity Hamiltonian, defined as the logarithm of a partially transposed density matrix, provides an operatorial characterisation of mixed-state entanglement. However, so far, it has only been studied for the mixed-state density…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-17 Federico Rottoli , Sara Murciano , Pasquale Calabrese

Although the post-Newtonian Lagrangian formalism is widely used in relativistic dynamical and statistical studies of test bodies moving around arbitrary mass distributions, the corresponding general Hamiltonian formalism is still relatively…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-23 Ronaldo S. S. Vieira , Javier Ramos-Caro , Alberto Saa

We consider a stochastic boundary value elliptic problem on a bounded domain $D\subset \mathbb{R}^k$, driven by a fractional Brownian field with Hurst parameter $H=(H_1,...,H_k)\in[{1/2},1[^k$. First we define the stochastic convolution…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-05-06 Marta Sanz-Solé , Iván Torrecilla

Using Dirac's approach to constrained dynamics, the Hamiltonian formulation of regular higher order Lagrangians is developed. The conventional description of such systems due to Ostrogradsky is recovered. However, unlike the latter, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Jan Govaerts , Maher S. Rashid