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quant-ph2026

Size-independent Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities for Quantum Gibbs Samplers

Hongrui Chen, Zhiyan Ding, Jianfeng Lu

We propose a new method for proving and modified logarithmic Sobolev inequalities with constants independent of system size for quantum Gibbs samplers whose Lindblad generato…

quant-ph2026

Spectral Analysis Beyond the Spectral Gap: Rapid Mixing of Quantum Gibbs Samplers in One Dimension

Hongrui Chen, Zhiyan Ding

We prove rapid mixing of a quantum Gibbs sampler for general one-dimensional non-commuting local spin systems at every fixed positive temperature. In particular, for a system of $n…

quant-ph2026★ 1 cited

Quantum Algorithms for Nonlinear Differential Equations via Pivot-Shifted Carleman Linearization

Ke Wang, Zikang Jia, Shravan Veerapaneni +1

We develop a pivot-shifted Carleman linearization framework for quantum algorithms solving quadratic nonlinear ordinary differential equations. By shifting the dynamics by a pivot…

quant-ph2026

Overcoming the Lamb Shift in System-Bath Interaction Models via KMS Detailed Balance: High-Accuracy Thermalization with Time-Bounded Interactions

Hongrui Chen, Zhiyan Ding, Ruizhe Zhang

We investigate quantum thermal state preparation algorithms based on system-bath interactions and uncover a surprising phenomenon in the weak-coupling regime. We rigorously prove t…

quant-ph2026

Provably Efficient Long-Time Exponential Decompositions of Non-Markovian Gaussian Baths

Zhen Huang, Zhiyan Ding, Ke Wang +3

Gaussian baths are widely used to model non-Markovian environments, yet the cost of accurate simulation at long times remains poorly understood, especially when spectral densities…

quant-ph2025

Beyond Lindblad Approximation: Rigorous Guarantees for Thermal and Ground State Preservation under System-Bath Interactions

Ke Wang, Zhiyan Ding

We establish rigorous guarantees for quantum thermal and ground state preparation via system-bath interactions beyond the Lindblad approximation regime. In contrast to existing ana…

quant-ph2025

Quantum Replica Exchange

Zherui Chen, Joao Basso, Zhiyan Ding +1

The presence of energy barriers in the state space of a physical system can lead to exponentially slow convergence for sampling algorithms like Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). In…

quant-ph2025

Quantum Filtering and Analysis of Multiplicities in Eigenvalue Spectra

Zhiyan Ding, Lin Lin, Yilun Yang +1

Fine-grained spectral properties of quantum Hamiltonians, including both eigenvalues and their multiplicities, provide useful information for characterizing many-body quantum syste…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Simple and efficient end-to-end quantum thermal and ground state preparation

Zhiyan Ding, Yongtao Zhan, John Preskill +1

Quantum computing algorithms for many-body physics, chemistry and materials science typically require the preparation of thermal or ground states for a given Hamiltonian. We propos…

quant-ph2025

Operator-Level Quantum Acceleration of Non-Logconcave Sampling

Jiaqi Leng, Zhiyan Ding, Zherui Chen +1

Sampling from probability distributions of the form , where is a continuous potential, is a fundamental task across physics, chemistry, biology, computer scie…

quant-ph2025★ 16 cited

Rapid quantum ground state preparation via dissipative dynamics

Yongtao Zhan, Zhiyan Ding, Jakob Huhn +4

Inspired by natural cooling processes, dissipation has become a promising approach for preparing low-energy states of quantum systems. However, the potential of dissipative protoco…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Polynomial-Time Preparation of Low-Temperature Gibbs States for 2D Toric Code

Zhiyan Ding, Zeph Landau, Bowen Li +2

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, signific…

quant-ph2024★ 33 cited

Rapid initial state preparation for the quantum simulation of strongly correlated molecules

Dominic W. Berry, Yu Tong, Tanuj Khattar +8

Studies on quantum algorithms for ground state energy estimation often assume perfect ground state preparation; however, in reality the initial state will have imperfect overlap wi…

quant-ph2024★ 6 cited

Lower bound for simulation cost of open quantum systems: Lipschitz continuity approach

Zhiyan Ding, Marius Junge, Philipp Schleich +1

Simulating quantum dynamics is one of the most promising applications of quantum computers. While the upper bound of the simulation cost has been extensively studied through variou…

quant-ph2024★ 29 cited

Efficient quantum Gibbs samplers with Kubo--Martin--Schwinger detailed balance condition

Zhiyan Ding, Bowen Li, Lin Lin

Lindblad dynamics and other open-system dynamics provide a promising path towards efficient Gibbs sampling on quantum computers. In these proposals, the Lindbladian is obtained via…

quant-ph2024★ 22 cited

Quantum Multiple Eigenvalue Gaussian filtered Search: an efficient and versatile quantum phase estimation method

Zhiyan Ding, Haoya Li, Lin Lin +3

Quantum phase estimation is one of the most powerful quantum primitives. This work proposes a new approach for the problem of multiple eigenvalue estimation: Quantum Multiple Eigen…

quant-ph2023★ 58 cited

Simulating Open Quantum Systems Using Hamiltonian Simulations

Zhiyan Ding, Xiantao Li, Lin Lin

We present a novel method to simulate the Lindblad equation, drawing on the relationship between Lindblad dynamics, stochastic differential equations, and Hamiltonian simulations.…

quant-ph2023★ 9 cited

Random coordinate descent: a simple alternative for optimizing parameterized quantum circuits

Zhiyan Ding, Taehee Ko, Jiahao Yao +2

Variational quantum algorithms rely on the optimization of parameterized quantum circuits in noisy settings. The commonly used back-propagation procedure in classical machine learn…