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Owing to the computational complexity of electronic structure algorithms running on classical digital computers, the range of molecular systems amenable to simulation remains tightly circumscribed even after many decades of work. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Alexis Ralli , Michael I. Williams , Peter V. Coveney

Quantum circuit simulations are critical for evaluating quantum algorithms and machines. However, the number of state amplitudes required for full simulation increases exponentially with the number of qubits. In this study, we leverage data…

If a large Quantum Computer (QC) existed today, what type of physical problems could we efficiently simulate on it that we could not simulate on a classical Turing machine? In this paper we argue that a QC could solve some relevant physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rolando Somma , Gerardo Ortiz , Emanuel Knill , James Gubernatis

Quantum coherence allows for reduced-memory simulators of classical processes. Using recent results in single-shot quantum thermodynamics, we derive a minimal work cost rate for quantum simulators that is quasistatically attainable in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Samuel P. Loomis , James P. Crutchfield

Quantum circuit simulation is crucial for the development of quantum algorithms, particularly given the high cost and noise limitations of physical quantum hardware. While full-state quantum circuit simulation is commonly employed for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Chuan-Chi Wang , Yan-Jie Wang , Chia-Heng Tu , Shih-Hao Hung

Advances in quantum simulator technology is increasingly required because research on quantum algorithms is becoming more sophisticated and complex. State vector simulation utilizes CPU and memory resources in computing nodes exponentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Mikio Morita , Yoshinori Tomita , Junpei Koyama , Koichi Kimura

Memory is an indispensable component in classical computing systems. While the development of quantum computing is still in its early stages, current quantum processing units mainly function as quantum registers. Consequently, the actual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Chenxu Liu , Meng Wang , Samuel A. Stein , Yufei Ding , Ang Li

We present a framework that utilizes quantum algorithms, an architecture aware quantum noise model and an ideal simulator to benchmark quantum computers. The benchmark metrics highlight the difference between the quantum computer evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-20 Konstantinos Georgopoulos , Clive Emary , Paolo Zuliani

Recent developments in quantum hardware indicate that systems featuring more than 50 physical qubits are within reach. At this scale, classical simulation will no longer be feasible and there is a possibility that such quantum devices may…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-06 Mathias Soeken , Thomas Häner , Martin Roetteler

Simulations of stochastic processes play an important role in the quantitative sciences, enabling the characterisation of complex systems. Recent work has established a quantum advantage in stochastic simulation, leading to quantum devices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-20 Farzad Ghafari , Nora Tischler , Carlo Di Franco , Jayne Thompson , Mile Gu , Geoff J. Pryde

We present a practical course targeting graduate students with prior knowledge of the basics of quantum computing. The practical aims to deepen students' understanding of fundamental concepts in quantum computing by implementing quantum…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-11-24 Florian Krötz , Xiao-Ting Michelle To , Korbinian Staudacher , Dieter Kranzlmüller

A quantum computing simulation provides the opportunity to explore the behaviors of quantum circuits, study the properties of quantum gates, and develop quantum computing algorithms. Simulating quantum circuits requires geometric time and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Lee A. Belfore

(Abridged.) Quantum computers promise to solve some problems exponentially faster than traditional computers, but we still do not fully understand why this is the case. While the most studied model of quantum computation uses qubits, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Cameron Calcluth

Quantum computers leverage the unique advantages of quantum mechanics to achieve acceleration over classical computers for certain problems. Currently, various quantum simulators provide powerful tools for researchers, but simulating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Shuangxiang Zhou , Ronghang Chen , Zheng An , Shi-Yao Hou

Quantum computing promises the ability to compute properties of quantum systems exponentially faster than classical computers. Quantum advantage is achieved when a practical problem is solved more efficiently on a quantum computer than on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 William A. Simon , Peter J. Love

We present ffsim, an open-source software library for fast simulation of fermionic quantum circuits. ffsim exploits conservation of particle number and the z component of spin, symmetries present in a wide range of fermionic systems, to…

Quantum computing, an innovative computing system carrying prominent processing rate, is meant to be the solutions to problems in many fields. Among these realms, the most intuitive application is to help chemical researchers correctly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Qingchun Wang , Huan-Yu Liu , Qing-Song Li , Jianyu Zhao , Qiankun Gong , Ye Li , Yu-Chun Wu , Guo-Ping Guo

Quantum computers hold promise to improve the efficiency of quantum simulations of materials and to enable the investigation of systems and properties more complex than tractable at present on classical architectures. Here, we discuss…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Christian Vorwerk , Nan Sheng , Marco Govoni , Benchen Huang , Giulia Galli

To realize the full potential of quantum computers, we must mitigate qubit errors by developing noise-aware algorithms, compilers, and architectures. Thus, simulating quantum programs on high-performance computing (HPC) systems with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Meng Wang , Swamit Tannu , Prashant J. Nair

This review gives a survey of numerical algorithms and software to simulate quantum computers.It covers the basic concepts of quantum computation and quantum algorithms and includes a few examples that illustrate the use of simulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. De Raedt , K. Michielsen