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Simulation of Nonequilibrium Dynamics on a Quantum Computer.
Henry Lamm, S. Lawrence·June 18, 2018·DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.170501
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Abstract
We present a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for the time evolution of out-of-equilibrium thermal states. The method depends on classically computing a sparse approximation to the density matrix and, then, time-evolving each matrix element via the quantum computer. For this exploratory study, we investigate a time-dependent Ising model with five spins on the Rigetti Forest quantum virtual machine and a one spin system on the Rigetti 8Q-Agave quantum processor.