Li Zhi, Zou Liujun, Hsieh Timothy H
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
Pittsburgh Quantum Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2020 Apr 24;124(16):160502. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.160502.
We show that it is possible to uniquely reconstruct a generic many-body local Hamiltonian from a single pair of generic initial and final states related by evolving with the Hamiltonian for any time interval. We then propose a practical version of the protocol involving multiple pairs of such initial and final states. Using the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, we provide bounds on the protocol's performance and stability against errors from measurements and in the ansatz of the Hamiltonian. The protocol is efficient (requiring experimental resources scaling polynomially with system size in general and constant with system size given translation symmetry) and thus enables analog and digital quantum simulators to verify implementation of a putative Hamiltonian.
我们表明,对于任意时间间隔,通过哈密顿量演化相关的一对通用初始态和终态,有可能唯一地重构一个通用的多体局域哈密顿量。然后,我们提出了该协议的一个实用版本,涉及多对这样的初始态和终态。利用本征态热化假设,我们给出了该协议性能的界限以及针对测量误差和哈密顿量假设的稳定性。该协议是高效的(一般而言,所需实验资源随系统大小呈多项式缩放,在具有平移对称性时随系统大小为常数),因此能使模拟和数字量子模拟器验证假定哈密顿量的实现。