Universal Parent Hamiltonians for Adiabatic Warm Starts

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16857v1
• Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:44:14 GMT
• Title: Universal Parent Hamiltonians for Adiabatic Warm Starts
• Abstract summary: We develop a protocol for universal adiabatic warm starts with universal parent Hamiltonians.<n>We benchmark the framework on a $bbZ$-symmetric matrix product state (MPS) family.<n>We develop a momentum-space truncation of the adiabatic Hamiltonian that may be of independent interest.
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• Abstract: Computing the ground state properties of quantum systems is an important potential application of quantum computing. The success probability of quantum phase estimation approaches to ground state problems is proportional to the overlap of the input state with the ground state. Local ansatz state approaches suffer from the orthogonality catastrophe, whereas adiabatic state preparation (ASP) can prepare good approximations with a cost growing with the inverse square of the minimum spectral gap along the adiabatic path. When the initial and target Hamiltonians lie in quantum phases separated by a first order phase transition, the minimum spectral gap along the adiabatic path becomes exponentially small as a function of system size. We pursue a solution to this problem based on choosing an initial Hamiltonian for adiabatic state preparation whose ground state lies in the same quantum phase as the target ground state. We develop a protocol for universal adiabatic warm starts with universal parent Hamiltonians (UPHAWS) that can initialize ASP in any state whose preparation circuit is known. We use the Feynman--Kitaev clock Hamiltonian as a universal parent Hamiltonian, for preparation circuits with and without mid circuit measurement. We benchmark the framework on a $\mathbb{Z}_2$-symmetric matrix product state (MPS) family interpolating to a target GHZ Hamiltonian, and on the linear $H_6$ chain under symmetric bond stretching. For the $H_6$ system a bond-dimension-$4$ matrix product state warm-start increases the minimum gap on the adiabatic path by a factor of two relative to the Hartree-Fock initialization. To perform these classical benchmark simulations we develop a momentum-space truncation of the adiabatic Hamiltonian that may be of independent interest.

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