Time-Efficient Quantum Many-Body State Synthesis and its Optimization via Warm Start Strategies

Abstract:Quantum mechanical ground states of many-body systems can be important resources for various investigations: for quantum sensing, for benchmarking quantum hardware with classically solvable states, as the initial states for nonequilibrium quantum dynamics following quenches, the simulation of quantum processes that start by coupling systems in ground states, eg, could be a process in quantum chemistry, while their approximations are required as inputs to quantum phase estimation algorithm. However, preparing ground states can be challenging; for example, it may require adiabatic switching of Hamiltonian terms slower than an inverse gap, which can be time consuming and bring in decoherence. Here we investigate the possibility of preparing a many-body entangled ground state of a certain Hamiltonian, which can be called a quantum ``problem'' Hamiltonian, using the time evolution of an initial fiducial state by another time independent ``solver'' Hamiltonian with couplings up to unit strength for a very short fixed (unit) time: a ``time efficient'' ansatz. The parameters of the solver Hamiltonian are optimised classically minimising energy as the cost function. We present a study of up to $n=14$ qubit many-body states prepared using this methodology. Importantly, we find that a strategy of combining a warm start (an already prepared ground state of a $n-1$ qubit Hamiltonian) and incrementally adding extra couplings of a qubit is the best scaling strategy to prepare the ground state of a $n$-qubit Hamiltonian.

arXiv:2511.12923 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2511.12923v2 [quant-ph] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.12923 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite

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