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Publications (6)

quant-ph2025

Complexity of Fermionic 2-SAT

Maarten Stroeks, Barbara M. Terhal

We introduce the fermionic satisfiability problem, Fermionic -SAT: this is the problem of deciding whether there is a fermionic state in the null-space of a collection of fermio…

quant-ph2026

Optimizing fermionic Hamiltonians with classical interactions

Maarten Stroeks, Barbara M. Terhal, Yaroslav Herasymenko

We consider the optimization problem (ground energy search) for fermionic Hamiltonians with classical interactions. This QMA-hard problem is motivated by the Coulomb electron-elect…

quant-ph2025

Solving Free Fermion Problems on a Quantum Computer

Maarten Stroeks, Daan Lenterman, Barbara Terhal +1

Simulating noninteracting fermion systems is a common task in computational many-body physics. In absence of translational symmetries, modeling free fermions on modes usually r…

quant-ph2022

Spectral estimation for Hamiltonians: a comparison between classical imaginary-time evolution and quantum real-time evolution

Maarten Stroeks, Jonas Helsen, Barbara Terhal

We present a classical Monte Carlo (MC) scheme which efficiently estimates an imaginary-time, decaying signal for stoquastic (i.e. sign-problem-free) local Hamiltonians. The decay…

quant-ph2023

Optimizing sparse fermionic Hamiltonians

Yaroslav Herasymenko, Maarten Stroeks, Jonas Helsen +1

We consider the problem of approximating the ground state energy of a fermionic Hamiltonian using a Gaussian state. In sharp contrast to the dense case, we prove that strictly -…

quant-ph2024

Quantum Phase Estimation without Controlled Unitaries

Laura Clinton, Toby S. Cubitt, Raul Garcia-Patron +3

In this work we demonstrate the use of adapted classical phase retrieval algorithms to perform control-free quantum phase estimation. We eliminate the costly controlled time evolut…