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) …

Defining stable phases of open quantum systems

T Rakovszky, S Gopalakrishnan, C Von Keyserlingk - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
The steady states of dynamical processes can exhibit stable nontrivial phases, which can
also serve as fault-tolerant classical or quantum memories. For Markovian quantum …

Quantum thermal state preparation

CF Chen, MJ Kastoryano, FGSL Brandão… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Preparing ground states and thermal states is essential for simulating quantum systems on
quantum computers. Despite the hope for practical quantum advantage in quantum …

Doped stabilizer states in many-body physics and where to find them

A Gu, SFE Oliviero, L Leone - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
This work uncovers a fundamental connection between doped stabilizer states, a concept
from quantum information theory, and the structure of eigenstates in perturbed many-body …

High-temperature Gibbs states are unentangled and efficiently preparable

A Bakshi, A Liu, A Moitra, E Tang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2403.16850, 2024 - arxiv.org
We show that thermal states of local Hamiltonians are separable above a constant
temperature. Specifically, for a local Hamiltonian $ H $ on a graph with degree $\mathfrak …

Polynomial-time preparation of low-temperature Gibbs states for 2d toric code

Z Ding, B Li, L Lin, R Zhang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2410.01206, 2024 - arxiv.org
We propose a polynomial-time algorithm for preparing the Gibbs state of the two-
dimensional toric code Hamiltonian at any temperature, starting from any initial condition …

Quantum Metropolis sampling via weak measurement

J Jiang, S Irani - arxiv preprint arxiv:2406.16023, 2024 - arxiv.org
Gibbs sampling is a crucial computational technique used in physics, statistics, and many
other scientific fields. For classical Hamiltonians, the most commonly used Gibbs sampler is …

Bounding the speedup of the quantum-enhanced Markov-chain Monte Carlo algorithm

A Orfi, D Sels - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
Sampling tasks are a natural class of problems for quantum computers due to the
probabilistic nature of the Born rule. Sampling from useful distributions on noisy quantum …