Jianxin Chen, Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)
William Matthews, Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)
Daniel Kumar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Abstract to be announced.
Jonathan Leach, University of Ottawa
Hongchao Zhou, California Institute of Technology
Lev Bishop, University of Maryland
Stoquastic Hamiltonians are the class of Hamiltonians that can be studied numerically using standard Quantum Monte Carlo methods--these are the Hamiltonians which do not suffer from the sign problem. These Hamiltonians can also be easier to study analytically because of their connection to nonnegative matrices. In the first part of this talk I will review the arsenal of analytic and numerical tools pertaining to stoquastic Hamiltonians. I will then discuss a variational lower bound for the ground state energy of these Hamiltonians.
Hamid Reza Mohebbi, Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)
Abstract to be announced.
Yingkai Ouyang, Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)
Alexander Belov, Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)