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Efficient thermalization and universal quantum computing with quantum Gibbs samplers

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The preparation of thermal states of matter is a crucial task in quantum simulation. In this work, we prove that a recently introduced, efficiently implementable dissipative evolution thermalizes to the Gibbs state in time scaling polynomially with system size at high enough temperatures for any Hamiltonian that satisfies a Lieb-Robinson bound, such as local Hamiltonians on a lattice. Furthermore, we show the efficient adiabatic preparation of the associated purifications or ``thermofield double'' states. These results establish the efficient preparation of high-temperature Gibbs states and their purifications. In the low-temperature regime, we show that implementing this family of dissipative evolutions for inverse temperatures polynomial in the system's size is computationally equivalent to polynomial time quantum computations. On a technical level, for high temperatures, our proof makes use of the mapping of the generator of the evolution into a Hamiltonian, and then connecting its convergence to that of the infinite temperature limit. For low temperature, we instead perform a perturbation at zero temperature and resort to circuit-to-Hamiltonian mappings akin to the proof of universality of quantum adiabatic computing. Taken together, our results show that a family of quasi-local dissipative evolutions efficiently prepares a large class of quantum many-body states of interest, and has the potential to mirror the success of classical Monte Carlo methods for quantum many-body systems.

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Preparing High-Fidelity Thermofield Double States

quant-ph · 2026-05-04 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

A gapped parent Hamiltonian built from two copies of a target Hamiltonian plus ultra-local inter-copy couplings allows adiabatic preparation of high-fidelity thermofield double states for ETH-obeying systems.

Efficient Quantum Gibbs Sampling with Local Circuits

quant-ph · 2025-06-04 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Introduces local-circuit approximations to quasilocal dissipative processes for efficient, provably convergent quantum Gibbs sampling at high temperatures.

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