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Quantum computing holds promise for revolutionizing computational chemistry simulations, particularly in drug discovery. However, current quantum hardware is limited by noise and scale, necessitating bridging technologies. This study…

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The simulation of quantum systems has been a key aim of quantum technologies for decades, and the generalisation to open systems is necessary to include physically realistic systems. We introduce an approach for quantum simulations of open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-14 Benjamin Dive , Florian Mintert , Daniel Burgarth

Classical simulations of quantum systems are notoriously difficult computational problems, with conventional state vector and tensor network methods restricted to quantum systems that feature only a small number of qudits. The recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Ben Harper , Azar C. Nakhl , Thomas Quella , Martin Sevior , Muhammad Usman

We study the classical compilation of quantum circuits for the preparation of matrix product states (MPS), which are quantum states of low entanglement with an efficient classical description. Our algorithm represents a near-term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Refik Mansuroglu , Norbert Schuch

This work develops a symplectic framework for quantum computing to be applied to classical Hamiltonian systems, exploiting the intrinsic geometric compatibility between unitary quantum evolution and symplectic phase-space dynamics in a…

In order to model realistic quantum devices it is necessary to simulate quantum systems strongly coupled to their environment. To date, most understanding of open quantum systems is restricted either to weak system-bath couplings, or to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Aidan Strathearn , Peter Kirton , Dainius Kilda , Jonathan Keeling , Brendon W. Lovett

Many theoretical expressions of dissipation along non-equilibrium processes have been proposed. However, they have not been fully verified by experiments. Especially for systems strongly interacting with environments the connection between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-03 Ketan Goyal , Xian He , Ryoichi Kawai

The "folding algorithm"\cite{fold1} is a matrix product state algorithm for simulating quantum systems that involves a spatial evolution of a matrix product state. Hence, the computational effort of this algorithm is controlled by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 M. B. Hastings , R. Mahajan

Continuous-time stochastic processes pervade everyday experience, and the simulation of models of these processes is of great utility. Classical models of systems operating in continuous-time must typically track an unbounded amount of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-05 Thomas J. Elliott , Mile Gu

Matrix product states (MPSs) and matrix product operators (MPOs) are fundamental tools in the study of quantum many-body systems, particularly in the context of tensor network methods such as Time-Evolving Block Decimation (TEBD). However,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-21 Alberto Giuseppe Catalano

It is a fundamental, but still elusive question whether the schemes based on quantum mechanics, in particular on quantum entanglement, can be used for classical information processing and machine learning. Even partial answer to this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-24 Yuhan Liu , Xiao Zhang , Maciej Lewenstein , Shi-Ju Ran

We consider the classical time evolution of a real scalar field in 2 dimensional Minkowski space with a $\lambda \phi^4$ interaction. We compute the spatial and temporal two-point correlation functions and extract the renormalized mass of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Hirayama , B. Holdom , R. Koniuk , T. Yavin

While quantum simulation is one of the most promising applications of modern quantum devices, accessible simulation times are fundamentally limited by finite coherence times due to omnipresent noise. Based on the ideas of relational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Sebastian Gemsheim , Felix Fritzsch

Classical simulations of quantum circuits are vital for assessing potential quantum advantage and benchmarking devices, yet they require sophisticated methods to avoid the exponential growth of resources. Tensor network approaches, in…

Some quantum algorithms have "quantum speedups": improved time complexity as compared with the best-known classical algorithms for solving the same tasks. Can we understand what fuels these speedups from an entropic perspective? Information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Jason Pollack , Dylan VanAllen

Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) were developed by Google exclusively to support large-scale machine learning tasks. TPUs can, however, also be used to accelerate and scale up other computationally demanding tasks. In this paper we repurpose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Markus Hauru , Alan Morningstar , Jackson Beall , Martin Ganahl , Adam Lewis , Guifre Vidal

Quantum computation is a novel way of information processing which allows, for certain classes of problems, exponential speedups over classical computation. Various models of quantum computation exist, such as the adiabatic, circuit and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-02 Robert Raussendorf , Tzu-Chieh Wei

We construct a Hamiltonian whose dynamics simulate the dynamics of every other Hamiltonian up to exponentially long times in the system size. The Hamiltonian is time-independent, local, one-dimensional, and translation invariant. As a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-26 Thomas C. Bohdanowicz , Fernando G. S. L. Brandão

We make the case for studying the complexity of approximately simulating (sampling) quantum systems for reasons beyond that of quantum computational supremacy, such as diagnosing phase transitions. We consider the sampling complexity as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 Abhinav Deshpande , Bill Fefferman , Minh C. Tran , Michael Foss-Feig , Alexey V. Gorshkov

We present an approach to simulating quantum computation based on a classical model that directly imitates discrete quantum systems. Qubits are represented as harmonic functions in a 2D vector space. Multiplication of qubit representations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-30 Steven Peil