Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: We present numerical calculations, and simulations performed on a Rydberg atom quantum simulator, of the adiabatic evolution of closed many-body quantum systems around a quantum phase transition. We demonstrate that the end-to-end transfer error, for a given process duration, can be suppressed by adopting smooth initial and final scheduling functions for the Hamiltonian. We consider a one-dimensional mixed-field Ising model, as well as a chain of Rydberg atoms, and compare numerical calculations and results on a commercially available quantum computer for the end-to-end transfer error with different schedule functions. We provide a new rigorous proof under minimal regularity assumptions of the known result that if the time dependent Hamiltonian is n times differentiable with vanishing first to n th order derivatives in the beginning and in the end, the infidelity with respect to the final adiabatic eigenstate scales as 1/T^{n+1} when evolving for time T.
Source: Physical Review Letters
DOI: 10.1103/hnlr-hm29
Institutions: University of Copenhagen, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, QuSoft
Language: English
Topic: Quantum many-body systems
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: G3313451239, G4105022999, G7352392636
OpenAlex ID: W7204994569