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20242026
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9 papers

quant-ph2026

Efficient and simple Gibbs state preparation of the 2D toric code via duality to classical Ising chains

Pablo Páez-Velasco, Niclas Schilling, Samuel O. Scalet +2

We introduce the notion of polynomial-depth duality transformations, which relates two sets of operator algebras through a conjugation by a poly-depth quantum circuit, and make use…

quant-ph2026

Dissipative microcanonical ensemble preparation from KMS-detailed balance

Anirban N. Chowdhury, Samuel O. Scalet, Kunal Sharma

Stationary states of quantum many-body Hamiltonians are invariant under the Hamiltonian evolution. Besides ground and thermal states, this class includes microcanonical ensembles t…

quant-ph2026

Spatial Entanglement Sudden Death in Spin Chains at All Temperatures

Samuel O. Scalet

We prove a finite entanglement length for the Gibbs state of any local Hamiltonian on a spin chain at any finite temperature: After removing an interval of size at least equal to t…

quant-ph2025

Classical Estimation of the Free Energy and Quantum Gibbs Sampling from the Markov Entropy Decomposition

Samuel O. Scalet, Angela Capel, Anirban N. Chowdhury +4

We revisit the Markov Entropy Decomposition, a classical convex relaxation algorithm introduced by Poulin and Hastings to approximate the free energy in quantum spin lattices. We i…

quant-ph2025

Convergence of the Cumulant Expansion and Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Weakly Interacting Fermions

Hongrui Chen, Cambyse Rouzé, Jielun Chen +6

We propose a randomized algorithm to compute the log-partition function of weakly interacting fermions with polynomial runtime in both the system size and precision. Although weakl…

quant-ph2025

Conditional Independence of 1D Gibbs States with Applications to Efficient Learning

Álvaro M. Alhambra, Ángela Capel, Paul Gondolf +2

We show that spin chains in thermal equilibrium have a correlation structure in which individual regions are strongly correlated at most with their near vicinity. We quantify this…