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20192026
most citedImportance of van der Waals interactions for ab initio studies of topological insulators

19 citations · 28 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

quant-ph2026

An efficient algorithm for approximate shadow Hamiltonian simulation

Abhijit Chakraborty, Bharath Sambasivam, Karunya Shirali +4

We propose an efficient algorithm based on shadow Hamiltonian simulation to approximately simulate the real-time dynamics of observables under time-independent Hamiltonians. Shadow…

quant-ph2026

Q3SAT-GPT: A Generative Model for Discovering Quantum Circuits for the 3-SAT Problem

Pratim Ugale, Ilya Tyagin, Karunya Shirali +2

This work introduces Q3SAT-GPT, a generative model for discovering quantum circuits for the Max-E3-SAT problem. Our method learns from high-performing QAOA-style ansätze to directl…

quant-ph2026

TIMES-ADAPT: A Quantum algorithm for real-time evolution in low-energy subspaces using fixed-depth circuits

Bharath Sambasivam, Kyle Sherbert, Karunya Shirali +3

We propose a new variational quantum algorithm, which we refer to as TIMES-ADAPT, that prepares time-evolved states in a low-energy or symmetric subspace of a time-independent Hami…

quant-ph2025

To break, or not to break: Symmetries in adaptive quantum simulations, a case study on the Schwinger model

Karunya Shailesh Shirali, Kyle Sherbert, Yanzhu Chen +4

We investigate the role of symmetries in constructing resource-efficient operator pools for adaptive variational quantum eigensolvers. In particular, we focus on the lattice Schwin…

quant-ph2025★ 3 cited

QAOA-GPT: Efficient Generation of Adaptive and Regular Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm Circuits

Ilya Tyagin, Marwa H. Farag, Kyle Sherbert +3

Quantum computing has the potential to improve our ability to solve certain optimization problems that are computationally difficult for classical computers, by offering new algori…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

TEPID-ADAPT: Adaptive variational method for simultaneous preparation of low-temperature Gibbs and low-lying eigenstates

Bharath Sambasivam, Kyle Sherbert, Karunya Shirali +4

Preparing Gibbs states, which describe systems in equilibrium at finite temperature, is of great importance, particularly at low temperatures. In this work, we propose a new method…

quant-ph2025

Floquet-ADAPT-VQE: A Quantum Algorithm to Simulate Non-Equilibrium Physics in Periodically Driven Systems

Abhishek Kumar, Karunya Shirali, Nicholas J. Mayhall +2

Periodically driven quantum systems exhibit many fascinating phenomena absent in equilibrium systems, but their simulation is more challenging than that of static systems. Conseque…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Surrogate Constructed Scalable Circuits ADAPT-VQE in the Schwinger model

Erik Gustafson, Kyle Sherbert, Adrien Florio +8

Inspired by recent advancements of simulating periodic systems on quantum computers, we develop a new approach, (SC)-ADAPT-VQE, to further advance the simulation of these syste…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Adaptive Quantum Generative Training using an Unbounded Loss Function

Kyle Sherbert, Jim Furches, Karunya Shirali +2

We propose a generative quantum learning algorithm, Rényi-ADAPT, using the Adaptive Derivative-Assembled Problem Tailored ansatz (ADAPT) framework in which the loss function to be…

quant-ph2022★ 1 cited

Scaling adaptive quantum simulation algorithms via operator pool tiling

John S. Van Dyke, Karunya Shirali, George S. Barron +3

Adaptive variational quantum simulation algorithms use information from the quantum computer to dynamically create optimal trial wavefunctions for a given problem Hamiltonian. A ke…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 2 cited

Inter-quintuple layer coupling and topological phase transitions in the chalcogenide topological insulators

Karunya Shirali, William A. Shelton, Ilya Vekhter

Driving quantum phase transitions in the 3D topological insulators offers pathways to tuning the topological states and their properties. We use DFT-based calculations to systemati…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 19 cited

Importance of van der Waals interactions for ab initio studies of topological insulators

K. Shirali, W. A. Shelton, I. Vekhter

We investigate the lattice and electronic structures of the bulk and surface of the prototypical layered topological insulators BiSe and BiTe using ab initio densit…