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20242026
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11 papers

quant-ph2026

Rigorous error bounds for dissipative thermal state preparation from weak system-bath coupling

Christopher Ong, S. A. Parameswaran, Benedikt Placke +1

Thermal state preparation is a central challenge in the simulation of quantum many-body systems. Yet, provably efficient algorithms for this task were only introduced recently [Che…

quant-ph2026

Optimal Decoding with the Worm

Zac Tobias, Nikolas P. Breuckmann, Benedikt Placke

We propose a new decoder for "matchable'' qLDPC codes that uses a Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm - called the worm algorithm - to approximately compute the probabilities of log…

quant-ph2026

Diffusion Codes: Self-Correction from Small(er)-Set Expansion with Tunable Non-locality

Adithya Sriram, Vedika Khemani, Benedikt Placke

Optimal constructions of classical LDPC codes can be obtained by choosing the Tanner graph uniformly at random among biregular graphs. We introduce a class of codes that we call ``…

quant-ph2026

Towards Efficient Quantum Thermal State Preparation via Local Driving: Lindbladian Simulation with Provable Guarantees

Dominik Hahn, S. A. Parameswaran, Benedikt Placke

Preparing the thermal density matrix corresponding to a given Hamiltonian is a task of central interest across quantum many-body physics, and is partic…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Slow mixing and emergent one-form symmetries in three-dimensional gauge theory

Charles Stahl, Benedikt Placke, Vedika Khemani +1

Symmetry-breaking order at low temperatures is often accompanied by slow relaxation dynamics, due to diverging free-energy barriers arising from interfaces between different ordere…

quant-ph2025

Solvable Quantum Circuits in Tree+1 Dimensions

Oliver Breach, Benedikt Placke, Pieter W. Claeys +1

We devise tractable models of unitary quantum many-body dynamics on tree graphs, as a first step towards a deeper understanding of dynamics in non-Euclidean spaces. To this end, we…