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Autori principali: Albarrán-Arriagada, Francisco, Retamal, Juan Carlos
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15794
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author Albarrán-Arriagada, Francisco
Retamal, Juan Carlos
author_facet Albarrán-Arriagada, Francisco
Retamal, Juan Carlos
contents Adiabatic ground-state preparation is fundamentally limited by the spectral structure of the time-dependent Hamiltonian, particularly by gap reductions and degeneracies that induce nonadiabatic transitions. We examine this dependence in the anisotropic Heisenberg (XXZ) model on an eight-site ring by comparing three strategies: optimization of the initial Hamiltonian, addition of auxiliary terms, and considering approximate counterdiabatic driving. Owing to anisotropy-dependent level crossings among low-energy states, the XXZ model provides a stringent benchmark. We find that performance is mainly constrained by spectral degeneracies between the ground and excited states. Simple strategies such as initial-Hamiltonian optimization or site-dependent Zeeman fields, suppresses critical crossings and drastically enhance ground-state preparation. In contrast, counterdiabatic terms alone do not improve the protocol when the spectral structure remains level-crossings, becoming effective only after degeneracies are removed. These results identify spectral engineering as a prerequisite for efficient adiabatic ground-state preparation in interacting spin systems.
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spellingShingle Role of spectral structure in adiabatic ground-state preparation of the XXZ model
Albarrán-Arriagada, Francisco
Retamal, Juan Carlos
Quantum Physics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Adiabatic ground-state preparation is fundamentally limited by the spectral structure of the time-dependent Hamiltonian, particularly by gap reductions and degeneracies that induce nonadiabatic transitions. We examine this dependence in the anisotropic Heisenberg (XXZ) model on an eight-site ring by comparing three strategies: optimization of the initial Hamiltonian, addition of auxiliary terms, and considering approximate counterdiabatic driving. Owing to anisotropy-dependent level crossings among low-energy states, the XXZ model provides a stringent benchmark. We find that performance is mainly constrained by spectral degeneracies between the ground and excited states. Simple strategies such as initial-Hamiltonian optimization or site-dependent Zeeman fields, suppresses critical crossings and drastically enhance ground-state preparation. In contrast, counterdiabatic terms alone do not improve the protocol when the spectral structure remains level-crossings, becoming effective only after degeneracies are removed. These results identify spectral engineering as a prerequisite for efficient adiabatic ground-state preparation in interacting spin systems.
title Role of spectral structure in adiabatic ground-state preparation of the XXZ model
topic Quantum Physics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15794