• Accepted Paper

Quantum Gibbs sampling through the detectability lemma

Di Fang, Jianfeng Lu, Yu Tong, and Chu Zhao

PRX Quantum - Accepted 7 October, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/gfv4-qc3s

Abstract

Gibbs state preparation is an important subroutine in quantum computing. In this work we use the detectability lemma to improve Gibbs state preparation. Specifically, we design new Gibbs state preparation methods that do not rely on simulating Lindbladian evolution, thus avoiding the overhead from it. For local Lindbladians consisting of M terms, this approach reduces the cost by a factor of O(M). We also combine the detectability lemma operator and quantum singular value transformation to implement ground state projection operators of frustration-free Hamiltonians, resulting in a quadratic speedup in the spectral gap dependence. Applying this method to Lindbladians for the Gibbs state of local commuting Hamiltonians, we achieve quadratically better dependence on the Lindbladian spectral gap.

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