Estimating ground-state properties in quantum simulators with global control

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Autori principali: Tabares, Cristian, Wild, Dominik S., Cirac, J. Ignacio, Zoller, Peter, González-Tudela, Alejandro, González-Cuadra, Daniel
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Tabares, Cristian
Wild, Dominik S.
Cirac, J. Ignacio
Zoller, Peter
González-Tudela, Alejandro
González-Cuadra, Daniel
author_facet Tabares, Cristian
Wild, Dominik S.
Cirac, J. Ignacio
Zoller, Peter
González-Tudela, Alejandro
González-Cuadra, Daniel
contents Accurately determining ground-state properties of quantum many-body systems remains one of the major challenges of quantum simulation. In this work, we present a protocol for estimating the ground-state energy using only global time evolution under a target Hamiltonian. This avoids the need for controlled operations that are typically required in conventional quantum phase estimation and extends the algorithm applicability to analog simulators. Our method extracts energy differences from measurements of the Loschmidt echo over an initial ground-state approximation, combines them with direct energy measurements, and solves a set of equations to infer the individual eigenenergies. We benchmark this protocol on free-fermion systems, showing orders-of-magnitude precision gains over direct energy measurements on the initial state, with accuracy improving rapidly with initial-state fidelity and persisting for hundreds of modes. We further demonstrate applicability to the 2D Ising and Fermi-Hubbard models and show that the approach extends naturally to other observables such as order parameters. Finally, we analyze the effect of experimental imperfections and propose error-mitigation strategies. These results establish a practical route to compute physically relevant quantities with high precision using globally controlled quantum simulators.
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spellingShingle Estimating ground-state properties in quantum simulators with global control
Tabares, Cristian
Wild, Dominik S.
Cirac, J. Ignacio
Zoller, Peter
González-Tudela, Alejandro
González-Cuadra, Daniel
Quantum Physics
Quantum Gases
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Accurately determining ground-state properties of quantum many-body systems remains one of the major challenges of quantum simulation. In this work, we present a protocol for estimating the ground-state energy using only global time evolution under a target Hamiltonian. This avoids the need for controlled operations that are typically required in conventional quantum phase estimation and extends the algorithm applicability to analog simulators. Our method extracts energy differences from measurements of the Loschmidt echo over an initial ground-state approximation, combines them with direct energy measurements, and solves a set of equations to infer the individual eigenenergies. We benchmark this protocol on free-fermion systems, showing orders-of-magnitude precision gains over direct energy measurements on the initial state, with accuracy improving rapidly with initial-state fidelity and persisting for hundreds of modes. We further demonstrate applicability to the 2D Ising and Fermi-Hubbard models and show that the approach extends naturally to other observables such as order parameters. Finally, we analyze the effect of experimental imperfections and propose error-mitigation strategies. These results establish a practical route to compute physically relevant quantities with high precision using globally controlled quantum simulators.
title Estimating ground-state properties in quantum simulators with global control
topic Quantum Physics
Quantum Gases
Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04434