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Universal Dilation of Linear It\^o SDEs: Quantum Trajectories and Lindblad Simulation of Second Moments

Quantum Physics 2026-02-19 v2

Abstract

We present a universal framework for simulating NN-dimensional linear It\^o stochastic differential equations (SDEs) on quantum computers with additive or multiplicative noises. Building on a unitary dilation technique, we establish a rigorous mapping from the general linear SDEs dXt=A(t)Xtdt+j=1JBj(t)XtdWtj dX_t = A(t) X_t\,dt + \sum_{j=1}^J B_j(t)X_t\,dW_t^j to stochastic Schr\"odinger equations (SSE) on a dilated Hilbert space. Crucially, this embedding is pathwise exact in that the classical solution is recovered as a projection of the dilated quantum state for each fixed noise realization. We demonstrate that the resulting SSEs are {naturally implementable} on digital quantum processors, where the stochastic Wiener increments are encoded directly by preparing the ancillary qubits. Exploiting this physical mapping, we develop two algorithmic strategies: (1) a trajectory-based approach that uses sequential weak measurements to realize efficient stochastic integrators, including a second-order scheme, and (2) an ensemble-based approach that maps moment evolution to a deterministic Lindblad quantum master equation, enabling simulation without Monte Carlo sampling. We provide error bounds based on a stochastic light-cone analysis and validate the framework with numerical experiments.

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@article{arxiv.2601.05928,
  title  = {Universal Dilation of Linear It\^o SDEs: Quantum Trajectories and Lindblad Simulation of Second Moments},
  author = {Hsuan-Cheng Wu and Xiantao Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.05928},
  year   = {2026}
}