Discretized quantum adiabatic process for free fermions and comparison with the imaginary-time evolution

Motivated by recent progress of quantum technologies making small-scale programmable quantum computing possible, here we study a discretized quantum adiabatic process for a one-dimensional free-fermion system described by a variational wave function, i.e., a parametrized quantum circuit. The wave fu...

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Main Authors: Tomonori Shirakawa, Kazuhiro Seki, Seiji Yunoki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2021-01-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.013004