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Description

Adds the tutorial for the dynamical cooling algorithm by Motlagh et al.

• Tutorial general/tutorial/dynamical_cooling.ipynb:

  • Explains the theory based on the paper.
  • Theoretical prediction example of cooling for a 3 Qubit XY Model with a transverse field perturbation.
  • Implementation in Qrisp for an (unphysical) projector perturbation operator.
  • Uses BlockEncodings to build a polynomial approximation of the erf(x) error function.
  • Includes use of Jasp compilation for hybrid control flows.

• Tutorial gallery: general/tutorial/index.rst Add a tutorial card in the "Scientific Computing and Quantum Numerical Linear Algebra" part of tutorials. Creates a new row under Eigenstate Filtering and HHL.

Type of Change

• Documentation

Breaking Change?

• No

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added a tutorial on dynamical ground-state preparation using block encodings and dynamical cooling to the scientific computing gallery.
  • Added a changelog entry with a reference to the relevant research paper.

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Walkthrough

The documentation registers a Dynamical Cooling tutorial in the tutorial index and hidden toctree. It adds author metadata and a changelog entry describing the tutorial.

Changes: Dynamical Cooling Tutorial

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Tutorial listing and supporting documentation documentation/source/general/tutorial/index.rst, documentation/source/_ext/tutorial_authors.py, documentation/source/general/changelog/changelog-dev.rst	The tutorial index adds a gallery card and hidden toctree entry for the notebook. The author metadata lists Carlotta Koroll and René Zander. The changelog describes the tutorial and cites Motlagh et al.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Other

Possibly related issues

• Issue 1021 tracks the Dynamical Cooling tutorial, which this PR registers in the documentation.

Suggested reviewers: positr0nium, purva-thakre

Architecture risk: Low · up to 94b4d

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: documentation

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — documentation (service) was modified; 3 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in documentation/source/_ext/tutorial_authors.py: Added the general/tutorial/dynamical_cooling tutorial entry with Carlotta Koroll and René Zander, both affiliated with Fraunhofer FOKUS and without LinkedIn URLs.
• observed — Modified behavior in documentation/source/general/changelog/changelog-dev.rst: Added documentation for a new Dynamical Cooling tutorial covering ground-state preparation with BlockEncodings and citing Motlagh et al.
• observed — Modified behavior in documentation/source/general/tutorial/index.rst: Added a tutorial card for Dynamical Groundstate Preparation, linking to the dynamical cooling tutorial and displaying its description and thumbnail.
• observed — Modified behavior in documentation/source/general/tutorial/index.rst: Added dynamical_cooling.ipynb to the hidden tutorial toctree.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the two main additions: the dynamical cooling tutorial and its tutorial card. It also names the authors entry. The raw summary confirms all three changes. The title is specific and acc…
Description check		The description covers the tutorial content, the tutorial gallery card, and the documentation-only type of change. It also states that the change is not breaking. The template's Related Issues section…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

Full details: Title check

Explanation

The title names the two main additions: the dynamical cooling tutorial and its tutorial card. It also names the authors entry. The raw summary confirms all three changes. The title is specific and accurate, and it does not describe anything absent from the changeset.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description covers the tutorial content, the tutorial gallery card, and the documentation-only type of change. It also states that the change is not breaking. The template's Related Issues section is not filled in: it has no closing or related issue reference. The Checklist, the Test-ID table, and the changelog and author entries are not addressed. The raw summary shows a changelog entry and an authors entry, so the description omits parts of the changeset. The template is mostly complete, so the check passes, but the author should fill in the missing sections.

Resolution

Consider adding the following to the description: a Related Issues entry (for example, a Related to # reference for the linked PR or issue), the author entry for Carlotta Koroll and René Zander, the changelog-dev.rst entry, and a note on the checklist items such as tests or documentation review.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use reStructuredText link syntax for the citation.

This .rst file does not parse [Motlagh et al.](...) as a hyperlink. Replace it with `Motlagh et al. <https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05810>`_.

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Replace the Markdown-style citation link in the changelog entry with valid
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existing arXiv URL.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the PR number.

This change is in PR #987, but the changelog references PR #986. Update the reference to PR #987.

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Update the changelog entry’s PR reference from #986 to #987, including the
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[renezander90]

The notebook title is "Ground state preparation with dynamical cooling". Do you think this is too long?
I would mention the word "cooling" also in this thumbnail title.

[renezander90]

Please consider using our design colors for all plots. See e.g. the filtering tutorial.

Axis labels and ticks could be slightly larger.

[renezander90]

There also exists a block encoding based approach where one can use [QSVT (Quantum Singular Value Transformation)](https://qrisp--987.org.readthedocs.build/en/987/reference/Algorithms/GQSP.html) instead of QPE. We refer to the original paper for more details on this approach. For the remainder of this tutorial we will stick with the QPE version.

I would consider removing this comment. It seems too vague. Maybe rather comment on QPE with qubitization walk operator as unitary which avoids trotter error.

[renezander90]

We use a [Repeat-Until-Success (RUS)](https://qrisp--987.org.readthedocs.build/en/987/reference/Jasp/Control%20Flow/RUS.html) decorator that applies the block encoding until we have reached success. The RUS decorator has to cover the multi-step cooling function. This function in turn creates the while-loop by defining a condition- and body-function. The first tells the loop when to stop, in our case if a number of iteration cycles is reached. And the body function executes the cooling iteration

Consider rewriting for more clarity. The RUS ensures that the multi step cooling procedure is repeated until all steps were applied sucessfully in a row. I.e. the block encoding in each cooling iteration was applied successfully. This happens with almost one probablity since time evolution is unitary.

[renezander90]

The implementation in Qrisp section is quite long. It could make sense to use subsections like „A single cooling iteration“, „Multi–step cooling“ or „Composing cooling iterations. (Maybe you find better names.)

[carlotta-k]

There also exists a block encoding based approach where one can use [QSVT (Quantum Singular Value Transformation)](https://qrisp--987.org.readthedocs.build/en/987/reference/Algorithms/GQSP.html) instead of QPE. We refer to the original paper for more details on this approach. For the remainder of this tutorial we will stick with the QPE version.

I would consider removing this comment. It seems too vague. Maybe rather comment on QPE with qubitization walk operator as unitary which avoids trotter error.

Good point! Does this paragraph capture the point of the QPE with the walk operator?

To avoid approximating the unitary of the Hamiltonian with trotterization, we can also use Qubitization. This returns the Walk operator $\hat W$ which splits the Hilbert space into two subspaces, each of them describing an eigenstate of $\hat H$. Using the unitary of $\hat W$ as a function in the iterative QPE, we get $\Lambda_j = \cos(\theta_j)$, where $\theta$ is the phase we would get for ordinary QPE.