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20132026
most citedEstimation of Thermodynamic Observables in Lattice Field Theories with Deep Generative Models

118 citations · 570 across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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56 papers

hep-lat2026

No-go theorems for dual Hamiltonians of Non-Abelian Lattice Gauge Theories

Marco Garofalo, Tobias Hartung, Timo Jakobs +3

Hamiltonian simulations of lattice gauge theories promise new insights into the inner workings of QCD. The rapid development of quantum computing hardware suggests that large scale…

cs.AI2026

TESTNAV: Pareto-Guided Search for Compositional Robustness Testing

Arooj Arif, Tobias Hartung, Elena Botoeva +1

Deep learning models remain vulnerable to real-world input perturbations, especially when multiple corruptions co-occur in the same input (e.g., brightness shifts and motion blur).…

cs.AI2026

TestifAI: Tomography-Based Testing for Deep Learning Systems

Arooj Arif, Tobias Hartung, Elena Botoeva +1

As AI systems are increasingly deployed in safety-critical application domains (e.g., autonomous driving), associated risks increase too. Deep learning models underlying modern AI…

hep-th2026

Toward Hamiltonian simulations of Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory: constant modes and gauge field truncation

Andrea Bulgarelli, Maria Cristina Diamantini, Nico Dichter +6

Maxwell-Chern-Simons (MCS) theory in dimensions provides a paradigmatic example of a topological gauge theory with both dynamical and topological degrees of freedom. Its Eucl…

hep-lat2025

A Comprehensive Stress Test of Truncated Hilbert Space Bases against Green's function Monte Carlo in U(1) Lattice Gauge Theory

Timo Jakobs, Marco Garofalo, Tobias Hartung +5

A representation of Lattice Gauge Theories (LGT) suitable for simulations with tensor network state methods or with quantum computers requires a truncation of the Hilbert space to…

quant-ph2025

Isogeny Graphs in Superposition and Quantum Onion Routing

Eleni Agathocleous, Tobias Hartung, Karl Jansen +1

Onion routing provides anonymity by layering encryption so that no relay can link sender to destination. A quantum analogue faces a core obstacle: layered quantum encryption genera…

quant-ph2025

Convergence and efficiency proof of quantum imaginary time evolution for bounded order systems

Tobias Hartung, Karl Jansen

Many current and near-future applications of quantum computing utilise parametric families of quantum circuits and variational methods that can suffer from obstacles including non-…

hep-lat2025★ 4 cited

Dynamics in Hamiltonian Lattice Gauge Theory: Approaching the Continuum Limit with Partitionings of SU

Timo Jakobs, Marco Garofalo, Tobias Hartung +4

In this paper, we investigate a digitised SU lattice gauge theory in the Hamiltonian formalism. We use partitionings to digitise the gauge degrees of freedom and show how to d…

quant-ph2024

Real-time measurement error mitigation for one-way quantum computation

Tobias Hartung, Stephan Schuster, Joachim von Zanthier +1

We propose a quantum error mitigation scheme for single-qubit measurement errors, particularly suited for one-way quantum computation. Contrary to well established error mitigation…

quant-ph2024

Variational Quantum Eigensolver Approach to Prime Factorization on IBM's Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum Computer

Mona Sobhani, Yahui Chai, Tobias Hartung +1

This paper presents a hybrid quantum-classical approach to prime factorization. The proposed algorithm is based on the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE), which employs a classi…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Benchmarking Variational Quantum Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization in Practice

Tim Schwägerl, Yahui Chai, Tobias Hartung +2

Variational quantum algorithms and, in particular, variants of the varational quantum eigensolver have been proposed to address combinatorial optimization (CO) problems. Using only…

quant-ph2024

Quantum convolutional neural networks for jet images classification

Hala Elhag, Tobias Hartung, Karl Jansen +3

Recently, interest in quantum computing has significantly increased, driven by its potential advantages over classical techniques. Quantum machine learning (QML) exemplifies one of…

cs.LG2024

Physics-Informed Bayesian Optimization of Variational Quantum Circuits

Kim A. Nicoli, Christopher J. Anders, Lena Funcke +7

In this paper, we propose a novel and powerful method to harness Bayesian optimization for Variational Quantum Eigensolvers (VQEs) -- a hybrid quantum-classical protocol used to ap…

hep-lat2023

Testing the lattice Hamiltonian built from partitionings

Marco Garofalo, Tobias Hartung, Timo Jakobs +5

We test a possible digitization of lattice gauge theories based on partitionings of the sphere . In our construction the link operators are unitary and diagon…

hep-lat2023★ 12 cited

Studying the phase diagram of the three-flavor Schwinger model in the presence of a chemical potential with measurement- and gate-based quantum computing

Stephan Schuster, Stefan Kühn, Lena Funcke +4

We propose an ansatz quantum circuit for the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE), suitable for exploring the phase structure of the multi-flavor Schwinger model in the presence o…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Determining the ability for universal quantum computing: Testing controllability via dimensional expressivity

Fernando Gago-Encinas, Tobias Hartung, Daniel M. Reich +2

Operator controllability refers to the ability to implement an arbitrary unitary in SU(N) and is a prerequisite for universal quantum computing. Controllability tests can be used i…

quant-ph2023

Quantum algorithms for charged particle track reconstruction in the LUXE experiment

Arianna Crippa, Lena Funcke, Tobias Hartung +8

The LUXE experiment is a new experiment in planning in Hamburg, which will study Quantum Electrodynamics at the strong-field frontier. LUXE intends to measure the positron producti…

hep-lat2023★ 22 cited

Canonical Momenta in Digitized SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory: Definition and Free Theory

Timo Jakobs, Marco Garofalo, Tobias Hartung +5

Hamiltonian simulations of quantum systems require a finite-dimensional representation of the operators acting on the Hilbert space H. Here we give a prescription for gauge links a…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 10 cited

Quantum spin helices more stable than the ground state: onset of helical protection

Stefan Kühn, Felix Gerken, Lena Funcke +4

Topological magnetic structures are promising candidates for resilient information storage. An elementary example are spin helices in one-dimensional easy-plane quantum magnets. To…

quant-ph2023★ 15 cited

Towards Finding an Optimal Flight Gate Assignment on a Digital Quantum Computer

Yahui Chai, Lena Funcke, Tobias Hartung +4

We investigate the performance of the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) for the optimal flight gate assignment problem. This problem is a combinatorial optimization problem tha…

quant-ph2023★ 14 cited

Critical behavior of Ising model by preparing thermal state on quantum computer

Xiaoyang Wang, Xu Feng, Tobias Hartung +2

We simulate the critical behavior of the Ising model utilizing a thermal state prepared using quantum computing techniques. The preparation of the thermal state is based on the var…

hep-lat2023

Detecting and Mitigating Mode-Collapse for Flow-based Sampling of Lattice Field Theories

Kim A. Nicoli, Christopher J. Anders, Tobias Hartung +3

We study the consequences of mode-collapse of normalizing flows in the context of lattice field theory. Normalizing flows allow for independent sampling. For this reason, it is hop…

hep-lat2023★ 42 cited

Review on Quantum Computing for Lattice Field Theory

Lena Funcke, Tobias Hartung, Karl Jansen +1

In these proceedings, we review recent advances in applying quantum computing to lattice field theory. Quantum computing offers the prospect to simulate lattice field theories in p…

hep-lat2022

Digitizing SU(2) Gauge Fields and What to Look Out for When Doing So

Tobias Hartung, Timo Jakobs, Karl Jansen +2

With the long term perspective of using quantum computers and tensor networks for lattice gauge theory simulations, an efficient method of digitizing gauge group elements is needed…