[QIP-Sem] QIP seminar, Mon 5/5, 4:15pm, 36-428, Barbara Terhal

[Peter Shor]

MIT Quantum Information Processing seminar
Monday 5/5 at 4:15pm in 36-428
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Barbara Terhal (IBM)

Simulation of Many-Body Hamiltonians using Perturbation Theory with Bounded-Strength Interactions

Abstract:

We show how to map a given n-qubit target Hamiltonian with bounded-strength k-body interactions onto a simulator Hamiltonian with two-body interactions, such that the ground-state energy of the target and the simulator Hamiltonians are the same up to an extensive error O(epsilon n) for arbitrary small epsilon. The strength of interactions in the simulator Hamiltonian depends on epsilon and k but does not depend on n. We accomplish this reduction using a new way of deriving an effective low-energy Hamiltonian which relies on the Schrieffer-Wolff transformation of many-body physics.

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