Variational preparation of finite-temperature states on a quantum computer

Abstract The preparation of thermal equilibrium states is important for the simulation of condensed matter and cosmology systems using a quantum computer. We present a method to prepare such mixed states with unitary operators and demonstrate this technique experimentally using a gate-based quantum...

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Main Authors: R. Sagastizabal, S. P. Premaratne, B. A. Klaver, M. A. Rol, V. Negîrneac, M. S. Moreira, X. Zou, S. Johri, N. Muthusubramanian, M. Beekman, C. Zachariadis, V. P. Ostroukh, N. Haider, A. Bruno, A. Y. Matsuura, L. DiCarlo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-08-01
Series:npj Quantum Information
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-021-00468-1