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Quantum simulation by qubitization without Toffoli gates

Quantum Physics 2020-05-20 v2

Abstract

Qubitization is a modern approach to estimate Hamiltonian eigenvalues without simulating its time evolution. While in this way approximation errors are avoided, its resource and gate requirements are more extensive: qubitization requires additional qubits to store information about the Hamiltonian, and Toffoli gates to probe them throughout the routine. Recently, it was shown that storing the Hamiltonian in a unary representation can alleviate the need for such gates in one of the qubitization subroutines. Building on that principle, we develop an entirely new decomposition of the entire algorithm: without Toffoli gates, we can encode the Hamiltonian into qubits within logarithmic depth.

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@article{arxiv.1911.00416,
  title  = {Quantum simulation by qubitization without Toffoli gates},
  author = {Mark Steudtner and Stephanie Wehner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.00416},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

12 pages, 8 figures. Fixed various typos

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