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We investigate the power of quantum systems for the simulation of Hamiltonian time evolutions on a cubic lattice under the constraint of translational invariance. Given a set of translationally invariant local Hamiltonians and short range…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christina V. Kraus , Michael M. Wolf , J. Ignacio Cirac

We investigate the sample complexity of Hamiltonian simulation: how many copies of an unknown quantum state are required to simulate a Hamiltonian encoded by the density matrix of that state? We show that the procedure proposed by Lloyd,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-20 Shelby Kimmel , Cedric Yen-Yu Lin , Guang Hao Low , Maris Ozols , Theodore J. Yoder

We study the problem of learning a Hamiltonian $H$ to precision $\varepsilon$, supposing we are given copies of its Gibbs state $\rho=\exp(-\beta H)/\operatorname{Tr}(\exp(-\beta H))$ at a known inverse temperature $\beta$. Anshu,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Jeongwan Haah , Robin Kothari , Ewin Tang

We study the problem of Hamiltonian sparsification: given a parameter $\varepsilon \in (0,1)$ and an $n$-qubit Hamiltonian $H$ which is the sum of $r$-local positive semi-definite (PSD) terms $H_1, \dots H_m$, our goal is to compute a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Arpon Basu , Joshua Brakensiek , Aaron Putterman

Call a spectrum of Hamiltonian sparse if each eigenvalue can be quickly restored with accuracy $\epsilon$ from its rough approximation in within $\epsilon_1$ by means of some classical algorithm. It is shown how a behavior of system with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri Ozhigov

Simulation of quantum systems is notoriously challenging for classical computers, while quantum hardware is naturally well-suited for this task. However, the imperfections of contemporary quantum systems poses a considerable challenge in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Yotam Shapira , Jovan Markov , Nitzan Akerman , Ady Stern , Roee Ozeri

Compared with time independent Hamiltonians, the dynamics of generic quantum Hamiltonians $H(t)$ are complicated by the presence of time ordering in the evolution operator. In the context of digital quantum simulation, this difficulty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Jacob Watkins , Nathan Wiebe , Alessandro Roggero , Dean Lee

We present efficient quantum algorithms for simulating time-dependent Hamiltonian evolution of general input states using an oracular model of a quantum computer. Our algorithms use either constant or adaptively chosen time steps and are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-03 Nathan Wiebe , Dominic W. Berry , Peter Hoyer , Barry C. Sanders

We present a quantum algorithm for simulating the time evolution generated by any bounded, time-dependent operator $-A$ with non-positive logarithmic norm, thereby serving as a natural generalization of the Hamiltonian simulation problem.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Guang Hao Low , Rolando D. Somma

In this work we propose an approach for implementing time-evolution of a quantum system using product formulas. The quantum algorithms we develop have provably better scaling (in terms of gate complexity and circuit depth) than a naive…

A candidate application for quantum computers is to simulate the low-temperature properties of quantum systems. For this task, there is a well-studied quantum algorithm that performs quantum phase estimation on an initial trial state that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Chi-Fang , Chen , Alexander M. Dalzell , Mario Berta , Fernando G. S. L. Brandão , Joel A. Tropp

All-to-all interactions arise naturally in many areas of theoretical physics and across diverse experimental quantum platforms, motivating a systematic study of their information-processing power. Assuming each pair of qubits interacts with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Chao Yin

We provide a quantum method for simulating Hamiltonian evolution with complexity polynomial in the logarithm of the inverse error. This is an exponential improvement over existing methods for Hamiltonian simulation. In addition, its scaling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-24 Dominic W. Berry , Richard Cleve , Rolando D. Somma

Modeling non-Hermitian Hamiltonians is increasingly important in classical and quantum domains, especially when studying open systems, $PT$ symmetry, and resonances. However, the quantum simulation of these models has been limited by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 Anastashia Jebraeilli , Michael R. Geller

Hamiltonian simulation is a fundamental algorithm in quantum computing that has attracted considerable interest owing to its potential to efficiently solve the governing equations of large-scale classical systems. Exponential speedup…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Shoya Sasaki , Katsuhiro Endo , Mayu Muramatsu

We propose a scheme to deal with certain time-dependent non-Hermitian Hamiltonian operators $H(t)$ that generate a real phase in their time-evolution. This involves the use of invariant operators $I_{PH}(t)$ that are pseudo-Hermitian with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-19 Boubakeur Khantoul , A. Bounames , M. Maamache

We develop a general approach for monitoring and controlling evolution of open quantum systems. In contrast to the master equations describing time evolution of density operators, here, we formulate a dynamical equation for the evolution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-09 M. Mohseni , A. T. Rezakhani

Learning a many-body Hamiltonian from its dynamics is a fundamental problem in physics. In this work, we propose the first algorithm to achieve the Heisenberg limit for learning an interacting $N$-qubit local Hamiltonian. After a total…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Hsin-Yuan Huang , Yu Tong , Di Fang , Yuan Su

Simulating high-weight Hamiltonians can convert local noise on the original Hamiltonian into undesirable nonlocal noise on the simulated Hamiltonian. Here we show how starting from two-local Hamiltonian in the presence of non-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Milad Marvian , Todd Brun , Daniel A. Lidar

A novel scheme to simulate the evolution of a restricted set of observables of a quantum system is proposed. The set comprises the spectrum-generating algebra of the Hamiltonian. The idea is to consider a certain open-system evolution,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Khasin , R. Kosloff