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Improving approximate vacuum prepared by the adiabatic quantum computation

Quantum Physics 2022-04-11 v1

Abstract

According to the quantum adiabatic theorem, we can in principle obtain a true vacuum of a quantum system starting from a trivial vacuum of a simple Hamiltonian. In actual adiabatic digital quantum simulation with finite time length and non-infinitesimal time steps, we can only obtain an approximate vacuum that is supposed to be a superposition of a true vacuum and excited states. We propose a procedure to improve the approximate vacuum.

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@article{arxiv.2204.03862,
  title  = {Improving approximate vacuum prepared by the adiabatic quantum computation},
  author = {Kazuto Oshima},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.03862},
  year   = {2022}
}

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7pages, 6figures

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