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Autores principales: Basso, Joao, Chen, Chi-Fang, Dalzell, Alexander M.
Formato: Preprint
Publicado: 2024
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02578
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  • A central challenge in quantum simulation is to prepare low-energy states of strongly interacting many-body systems. In this work, we study the problem of preparing a quantum state that optimizes a random all-to-all, sparse or dense, spin or fermionic $k$-local Hamiltonian. We prove that a simplified quantum Gibbs sampling algorithm achieves a $Ω(\frac{1}{k})$-fraction approximation of the optimum, giving an exponential improvement on the $k$-dependence over the prior best (both classical and quantum) algorithmic guarantees. Combined with the circuit lower bound for such states, our results suggest that finding low-energy states for sparsified (quasi)local spin and fermionic models is quantumly easy but classically nontrivial. This further indicates that quantum Gibbs sampling may be a suitable metaheuristic for optimization problems.