Rapid quantum ground state preparation via dissipative dynamics

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Hauptverfasser: Zhan, Yongtao, Ding, Zhiyan, Huhn, Jakob, Gray, Johnnie, Preskill, John, Chan, Garnet Kin-Lic, Lin, Lin
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author Zhan, Yongtao
Ding, Zhiyan
Huhn, Jakob
Gray, Johnnie
Preskill, John
Chan, Garnet Kin-Lic
Lin, Lin
author_facet Zhan, Yongtao
Ding, Zhiyan
Huhn, Jakob
Gray, Johnnie
Preskill, John
Chan, Garnet Kin-Lic
Lin, Lin
contents Inspired by natural cooling processes, dissipation has become a promising approach for preparing low-energy states of quantum systems. However, the potential of dissipative protocols remains unclear beyond certain commuting Hamiltonians. This work provides significant analytical and numerical insights into the power of dissipation for preparing the ground state of noncommuting Hamiltonians. For quasi-free dissipative dynamics, including certain 1D spin systems with boundary dissipation, our results reveal a new connection between the mixing time in trace distance and the spectral properties of a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, leading to an explicit and sharp bound on the mixing time that scales polynomially with system size. For more general spin systems, we develop a tensor network-based algorithm for constructing the Lindblad jump operator and for simulating the dynamics. Using this algorithm, we demonstrate numerically that dissipative ground state preparation protocols can achieve rapid mixing for certain 1D local Hamiltonians under bulk dissipation, with a mixing time that scales logarithmically with the system size. We then prove the rapid mixing result for certain weakly interacting spin and fermionic systems in arbitrary dimensions, extending recent results for high-temperature quantum Gibbs samplers to the zero-temperature regime. Together, these results show that dissipation can be a powerful tool for ground state preparation, with potential applications across condensed matter physics, quantum materials science, and beyond.
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spellingShingle Rapid quantum ground state preparation via dissipative dynamics
Zhan, Yongtao
Ding, Zhiyan
Huhn, Jakob
Gray, Johnnie
Preskill, John
Chan, Garnet Kin-Lic
Lin, Lin
Quantum Physics
Inspired by natural cooling processes, dissipation has become a promising approach for preparing low-energy states of quantum systems. However, the potential of dissipative protocols remains unclear beyond certain commuting Hamiltonians. This work provides significant analytical and numerical insights into the power of dissipation for preparing the ground state of noncommuting Hamiltonians. For quasi-free dissipative dynamics, including certain 1D spin systems with boundary dissipation, our results reveal a new connection between the mixing time in trace distance and the spectral properties of a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, leading to an explicit and sharp bound on the mixing time that scales polynomially with system size. For more general spin systems, we develop a tensor network-based algorithm for constructing the Lindblad jump operator and for simulating the dynamics. Using this algorithm, we demonstrate numerically that dissipative ground state preparation protocols can achieve rapid mixing for certain 1D local Hamiltonians under bulk dissipation, with a mixing time that scales logarithmically with the system size. We then prove the rapid mixing result for certain weakly interacting spin and fermionic systems in arbitrary dimensions, extending recent results for high-temperature quantum Gibbs samplers to the zero-temperature regime. Together, these results show that dissipation can be a powerful tool for ground state preparation, with potential applications across condensed matter physics, quantum materials science, and beyond.
title Rapid quantum ground state preparation via dissipative dynamics
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15827