Papers and preprints

  • L. Gupta and I. Hen, Elucidating the interplay between non-stoquasticity and the sign problem, submitted for publication (2019). 
  • L. Gupta, T, Albash and I. Hen, Permutation Matrix Representation Quantum Monte Carlo, submitted for publication. arXiv:1908.03740 (2019).
  • M. Slutskii, T. Albash, L. Barash and I. Hen, Analog Nature of Quantum Adiabatic Unstructured Search (2019), submitted for publication. arXiv:1904.04420.
  • J. Klassen, M. Marvian, S. Piddock, M. Ioannou, I. Hen and B. Terhal, Hardness and Ease of Curing the Sign Problem for Two-Local Qubit Hamiltonians, submitted for publication. arXiv:1906.08800.
  • L. Barash, J. Marshall, M. Weigel and I. Hen, Estimating the Density of States of Frustrated Spin Systems, New Journal of Physics 21, 073065 (2019). arXiv:1808.04340.
  • I. Hen, Equation Planting: A Tool for Benchmarking Ising Machines, Phys. Rev. Applied 12, 011003 (2019). arXiv:1903.10928.
  • T. Albash and I. Hen, Future of physical quantum annealers: impediments and hopes, Science and Culture 85, 163-170 (2019).
  • I. Hen, How quantum is the speedup in adiabatic unstructured search?, Quant. Inf. Proc. 18, 162 (2019). arXiv:1811.08302.
  • J. Marshall, D. Venturelli, I. Hen and E. G. Rieffel, The power of pausing: advancing understanding of thermalization in experimental quantum annealers”, Phys. Rev. Applied 11, 044083 (2019). arXiv:1810.05881.
  • T. Albash, V. Martin-Mayor and I. Hen, Analog Errors in Ising Machines, Quantum Science \& Technology {\bf 4} 02LT03 (2019). arXiv:1806.03744.
  • I. Hen, “Resolution of the Sign Problem for a Frustrated Triplet of Spins, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 99}, 033306 (2019). arXiv:1811.03027.
  • M. Marvian, D. A. Lidar and I. Hen, On the Computational Complexity of Curing Non-Stoquastic Hamiltonians, Nature Communications 10, 1571 (2019). arXiv:1802.03408.
  • Y. Susa, Y. Yamashiro, M. Yamamoto, I. Hen, D. Lidar and H. Nishimori, Quantum annealing of the p-spin model under inhomogeneous transverse field driving, Phys. Rev. A 98, 042326 (2018).  arXiv:1808.0158
  • I. Hen and T. Albash, Solving Quantum Spin Glasses with Off-Diagonal Expansion Quantum Monte Carlo, Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS) 1136, 012007 (2018).
  • I. Hen, Off-Diagonal Series Expansion for Quantum Partition Functions, J. Stat. Mech. 053102 (2018). arXiv:1802.08333.
  • M. Marvian, D. A. Lidar and I. Hen, On the Computational Complexity of Curing the Sign Problem, submitted for publication. arXiv:1802.03408.
  • I. Hen and T. Albash, Solving Quantum Spin Glasses with Off-Diagonal Expansion Quantum Monte Carlo, submitted for publication.
  • I. Hen, Realizable quantum adiabatic search, Europhysics Letters 118, 30003 (2017). arXiv:1612.06012.
  • T. Albash, G. Wagenbreth and I. Hen, Off-diagonal expansion quantum Monte Carlo. Phys. Rev. E 96, 063309 (2017). arXiv:1701.01499.
  • I. Hen, Solving Spin Glasses with Optimized Trees of Clustered Spins, Phys. Rev. E 96, 022105 (2017). arXiv:1705.02075.
  • J. Marshall, E. G. Rieffel and I. Hen, Thermalization, freeze-out and noise: deciphering experimental quantum annealers, Phys. Rev. Applied 8, 064025 (2017). arXiv:1703.03902.
  • T. Albash, V. Martin-Mayor and I. Hen, Temperature scaling law for quantum annealing optimizers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 110502 (2017), arXiv:1703.03871.
  • B. Zhang, G. Wagenbreth, V. Martin-Mayor and I. Hen, Advantages of unfair quantum ground-state sampling, Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 1044 (2017).
  • J. Marshall, V. Martin-Mayor and I. Hen, Practical engineering of hard spin-glass instances, Phys. Rev. A 94, 012320 (2016).
  • I. B. Coulamy, A. C. Santos, I. Hen and M. S. Sarandy, Energetic cost of superadiabatic quantum computation, Frontiers in ICT 3, 19 (2016).
  • I. Hen and M. S. Sarandy, Driver Hamiltonians for constrained optimization in quantum annealing, Phys. Rev. A 93, 062312.
  • I. Hen and F. M. Spedalieri, Quantum annealing for constrained optimization, Phys. Rev. Applied 5, 034007 (2016).
  • T. Albash, I. Hen, F. M. Spedalieri and D. A. Lidar, Reexamination of the evidence for entanglement in the D-Wave processor, Phys. Rev. A 92, 062328 (2015).
  • W. Vinci, T. Albash, G. Paz-Silva, I. Hen and D. A. Lidar, Quantum annealing correction with minor embedding, Phys. Rev. A 92, 042310 (2015).
  • I. Hen, J. Job, T. Albash, Troels F. Roennow, M. Troyer, D. A.  Lidar, Probing for quantum speedup in spin glass problems with planted solutions, Phys. Rev. A 92, 042325 (2015).
  • V. Martin-Mayor  and I. Hen, Unraveling Quantum Annealers using Classical Hardness, Scientific Reports 5, Article number: 15324 (2015).
  • W. Vinci, T. Albash, G. Paz-Silva, I. Hen and D. A. Lidar, Quantum annealing correction with minor embedding, Phys. Rev. A 92, 042310 (2015).
  • I. Hen, J. Job, T. Albash, Troels F. Roennow, M. Troyer, D. A.  Lidar, Probing for quantum speedup in spin glass problems with planted solutions, Phys. Rev. A 92, 042325 (2015).
  • A. Kalev and I. Hen, Fidelity-optimized quantum state estimation, New J. Phys. 17, 093008 (2015).
  • I. Hen, Quantum Gates with Controlled Adiabatic Evolutions, Phys. Rev. A 91, 022309 (2015).
  • I. Hen, Fourier-Transforming with Quantum Annealers. Front. Phys. 2, 44 (2014).
  • E. G. Rieffel, M. Do, D. Venturelli, I. Hen and J. Franks, Phase Transitions in Planning Problems: Design and Analysis of Parameterized Families of Hard Planning Problems, AAAI 2014: 2337-2343 (2014).
  • I. Hen, How Fast Can Quantum Annealers Count?, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 47, 235304 (2014).
  • I. Hen, Period finding with Adiabatic Quantum Computation, Europhysics Letters 105, 50005 (2014).
  • I. Hen, Continuous-Time Quantum Algorithms for Unstructured Problems, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 47, 045305, (2014).
  • E. Farhi, D. Gosset, I. Hen, A. W. Sandvik, P. Shor, A. P. Young, and F. Zamponi, The Performance of the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm on 3 Regular 3XORSAT and 3 Regular Max-Cut, Phys. Rev. A 86, 052334 (2012).
  • I. Hen and A. P. Young, Solving the Graph Isomorphism Problem with a Quantum Annealer, Phys. Rev. A 86, 042310 (2012).
  • I. Hen, Excitation Gap from Optimized Correlation Functions in Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations, Phys. Rev. E 85, 036705 (2012).
  • I. Hen and A. P. Young, Exponential Complexity of the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm for certain Satisfiability Problems, Phys. Rev. E 84, 061152 (2011).
  • F. Alexander Wolf, I. Hen and M. Rigol, Collapse and revival oscillations as a probe for the tunneling amplitude in an ultracold Bose gas, Phys. Rev. A 82, 043601 (2010).
  • I. Hen and M. Rigol, Strongly Interacting Atom Lasers in Three Dimensional Optical Lattices, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 180401 (2010).
  • I. Hen and M. Rigol, Analytical and numerical study of trapped strongly correlated bosons in two- and three-dimensional lattices, Phys. Rev. A 82, 043634 (2010).
  • I. Hen, M. Iskin and M. Rigol, Phase diagram of the hardcore Bose-Hubbard model on a checkerboard superlattice, Phys. Rev. B 81 064503 (2010).
  • I. Hen and M. Rigol, Superfluid to Mott-insulator transition of hardcore bosons in a superlattice, Phys. Rev. B 80 134508 (2009).
  • I. Hen and M. Karliner, Review of rotational symmetry breaking in baby Skyrme models, in: G. Brown and M. Rho, Eds., The Multifaceted Skyrmion, (World Scientific, Singapore, 2010).
  • I. Hen and M. Karliner, Lattice structure of baby Skyrmions, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics 160(1) (2009).
  • I. Hen and A. Kalev, Equations of motion for the quantum characteristic functions, eprint: arXiv:0803.0108 (2008).
  • A. Kalev and I. Hen, No-broadcasting theorem and its classical counterpart, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 210502 (2008).
  • I. Hen and M. Karliner, Spontaneous breaking of rotational symmetry in rotating solitons, Phys. Rev. D 77, 116002 (2008).
  • I. Hen and M. Karliner, Baby Skyrmions on the two-sphere, Phys. Rev. E 77, 036612 (2008).
  • I. Hen and M. Karliner, Hexagonal structure of baby Skyrmion lattices, Phys. Rev. D 77, 054009 (2008).
  • I. Hen and M. Karliner, Rotational symmetry breaking in baby Skyrme models, Nonlinearity 21 (2008) 399.
  • I. Hen and A. Kalev, Classical States and Their Quantum Correspondence, eprint: arXiv:quant-ph/0701015 (2007).
  • I. Hen, A. Sakov, N. Kafkafi, I. Golani and Y. Benjamini, The dynamics of spatial behavior: how can robust smoothing techniques help?,  Journal of Neuroscience
  • H. Braunstein-Bercovitz, I. Hen and R. E. Lubow, Masking task load modulates latent inhibition, Cognition and Emotion 18, 1135 (2004).