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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Thursday, October 30, 2025
2:30pm to 3:30pm
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East Bridge 114
Quantum advantage from random geometrically-two-local Hamiltonian dynamics
Yihui Queck, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL,

Abstract:  Classical hardness-of-sampling results are largely established for random quantum circuits, whereas analog simulators natively realize time evolutions under geometrically local Hamiltonians. Does a typical such Hamiltonian already yield classically-intractable dynamics? We answer this question in the affirmative for the ensemble of geometrically-2-local Hamiltonians with Gaussian coefficients, evolved for constant time. This naturally leads to a quantum advantage scheme with clear prospects for experimental realization, necessitating only course-grained control.

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