Quantum-centric supercomputing for materials science: A perspective on challenges and future directions

Y Alexeev, M Amsler, MA Barroca, S Bassini… - Future Generation …, 2024 - Elsevier
Computational models are an essential tool for the design, characterization, and discovery
of novel materials. Computationally hard tasks in materials science stretch the limits of …

Single-ancilla ground state preparation via Lindbladians

Z Ding, CF Chen, L Lin - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
We design a quantum algorithm for ground state preparation in the early fault tolerant
regime. As a Monte Carlo style quantum algorithm, our method features a Lindbladian …

Designing open quantum systems with known steady states: Davies generators and beyond

J Guo, O Hart, CF Chen, AJ Friedman, A Lucas - Quantum, 2025 - quantum-journal.org
We provide a systematic framework for constructing generic models of nonequilibrium
quantum dynamics with a target stationary (mixed) state. Our framework identifies (almost) …

Simulating open quantum systems using hamiltonian simulations

Z Ding, X Li, L Lin - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
We present a novel method to simulate the Lindblad equation, drawing on the relationship
between Lindblad dynamics, stochastic differential equations, and Hamiltonian simulations …

On the sample complexity of quantum Boltzmann machine learning

L Coopmans, M Benedetti - Communications Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Quantum Boltzmann machines (QBMs) are machine-learning models for both
classical and quantum data. We give an operational definition of QBM learning in terms of …

[PDF][PDF] Local minima in quantum systems

CF Chen, HY Huang, J Preskill, L Zhou - Proceedings of the 56th Annual …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Finding ground states of quantum many-body systems is known to be hard for both classical
and quantum computers. As a result, when Nature cools a quantum system in a low …

Estimation of Hamiltonian parameters from thermal states

LP García-Pintos, K Bharti, J Bringewatt, H Dehghani… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We upper bound and lower bound the optimal precision with which one can estimate an
unknown Hamiltonian parameter via measurements of Gibbs thermal states with a known …

A practitioner's guide to quantum algorithms for optimisation problems

BCB Symons, D Galvin, E Sahin… - Journal of Physics A …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum computing is gaining popularity across a wide range of scientific disciplines due to
its potential to solve long-standing computational problems that are considered intractable …

Certified algorithms for equilibrium states of local quantum Hamiltonians

H Fawzi, O Fawzi, SO Scalet - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Predicting observables in equilibrium states is a central yet notoriously hard question in
quantum many-body systems. In the physically relevant thermodynamic limit, certain …

Thermal state preparation via rounding promises

P Rall, C Wang, P Wocjan - Quantum, 2023 - quantum-journal.org
A promising avenue for the preparation of Gibbs states on a quantum computer is to
simulate the physical thermalization process. The Davies generator describes the dynamics …