ON THE ADIABATIC EVOLUTION OF ONE-DIMENSIONAL PROJECTOR HAMILTONIANS
Jie Jing Sun, Songfeng Lu · International Journal of Quantum Information · 2012
In this paper, we discuss the adiabatic evolution of one-dimensional projector Hamiltonians. Three kinds of adiabatic algorithms for this problem are shown, in which two of them provide a quadratic speedup over the other one. But when the ground state of the initial Hamiltonian and that of the final Hamiltonian have a zero overlap, the algorithms above all fail, in the sense of infinite time complexity. A corresponding revised method for this phenomenon through adding a driving Hamiltonian is also shown, from which a constant time complexity can be gained. But by a simple analysis, we find that the original time complexity for the adiabatic evolution is shifted to implement the driving Hamiltonian, which is supported by several early works in the literature.