activity
20242026
collaborators

8 papers

quant-ph2026

Pathwise Random Hamiltonian Simulation

Davide Cugini

Randomized product formulas such as qDrift offer a resource-efficient alternative to deterministic Trotter--Suzuki decompositions for Hamiltonian simulation, removing their polynom…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

State convertibility and fluctuation theorems from a dynamical reference: majorization meets martingales

Davide Cugini, Giacomo Guarnieri

State convertibility represents a fundamental concept used to determine whether a transformation is possible given a specific set of resources. Within the field of Thermodynamics,…

quant-ph2026

Resource-Optimal Importance Sampling for Randomized Quantum Algorithms

Davide Cugini, Touheed Anwar Atif, Yigit Subasi

Randomized protocols are procedures that incorporate probabilistic choices during their execution and they play a central role in quantum algorithms, spanning Hamiltonian simulatio…

quant-ph2025

Spectral Gap Estimation via Adiabatic Preparation

Davide Cugini, Francesco Ghisoni, Angela Rosy Morgillo +1

Estimating energy gaps, i.e. the energy difference between two different states, in quantum systems is crucial for understanding their properties. Conventionally, spectral gap esti…

quant-ph2025

Symmetry-guided quantum state preparation: Branched-Subspaces Adiabatic Preparation (B-SAP)

Davide Cugini, Giacomo Guarnieri, Mario Motta +1

Quantum state preparation lies at the heart of quantum computation and quantum simulations, enabling the investigation of complex manybody systems across physics, chemistry, and da…

physics.soc-ph2024

Universal emergence of local Zipf-Mandelbrot law

Davide Cugini, André Timpanaro, Giacomo Livan +1

A plethora of natural and socio-economic phenomena share a striking statistical regularity, that is the magnitude of elements decreases with a power law as a function of their posi…

quant-ph2024

Exponential optimization of adiabatic quantum-state preparation

Davide Cugini, Davide Nigro, Mattia Bruno +1

The preparation of a given quantum state on a quantum computing register is a typically demanding operation, requiring a number of elementary gates that scales exponentially with t…

quant-ph2024

Spectral Gap Superposition States

Davide Cugini, Francesco Ghisoni, Angela Rosy Morgillo +1

This work introduces a novel NISQ-friendly procedure for estimating spectral gaps in quantum systems. By leveraging Adiabatic Thermalization, we are able to create the Spectral Gap…