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The past few years have witnessed the concrete and fast spreading of quantum technologies for practical computation and simulation. In particular, quantum computing platforms based on either trapped ions or superconducting qubits have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 Francesco Tacchino , Alessandro Chiesa , Stefano Carretta , Dario Gerace

Quantum simulation is a promising way toward practical quantum advantage, but noise in current quantum hardware poses a significant obstacle. We prove that not only the physical error but also the algorithmic error in a single Trotter step…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Jue Xu , Chu Zhao , Junyu Fan , Qi Zhao

Quantum simulation is a foundational application for quantum computers, projected to offer insights into complex quantum systems beyond the reach of classical computation. However, with the exception of Trotter-based methods, which suffer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Amir Kalev , Itay Hen

Simulating plasma physics on quantum computers is difficult because most problems of interest are nonlinear, but quantum computers are not naturally suitable for nonlinear operations. In weakly nonlinear regimes, plasma problems can be…

We present a scheme for implementing quantum operations with superconducting qubits. Our approach uses a "coupler" qubit to mediate a controllable, secular interaction between "data" qubits, pulse sequences which strongly mitigate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-22 Andrew J. Kerman , William D. Oliver

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

Quantum chemistry simulations on a quantum computer suffer from the overhead needed for encoding the fermionic problem in a bosonic system of qubits. By exploiting the block diagonality of a fermionic Hamiltonian, we show that the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-09 Nikolaj Moll , Andreas Fuhrer , Peter Staar , Ivano Tavernelli

Preparing quantum samples (QSAMPLES), coherent encodings of stationary distributions of reversible Markov chains, is a fundamental primitive in quantum sampling, particularly for quantum simulated annealing. A central limitation of existing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Nicholas Zhao

Quantum computers can efficiently simulate Lindbladian dynamics, enabling powerful applications in open system simulation, thermal and ground-state preparation, autonomous quantum error correction, dissipative engineering, and more. Despite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Wenjun Yu , Xiaogang Li , Qi Zhao , Xiao Yuan

A quantum cellular network with a qubit and ancilla bits in each cell is proposed. The whole circuit works only with the help of external optical pulse sequences. In the operation, some of the ancilla bits are activated, and autonomous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Toshio Ohshima

After a general introduction to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), we give the basics of implementing quantum algorithms. We describe how qubits are realized and controlled with RF pulses, their internal interactions, and gradient fields. A…

It is well known that quantum computers are superior to classical computers in efficiently simulating quantum systems. Here we report the first experimental simulation of quantum tunneling through potential barriers, a widespread phenomenon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-03 Guan Ru Feng , Yao Lu , Liang Hao , Fei Hao Zhang , Gui Lu Long

Open quantum system approaches are widely used in the description of physical, chemical and biological systems. A famous example is electronic excitation transfer in the initial stage of photosynthesis, where harvested energy is transferred…

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 investigate memory effects in non-Markovian dynamics on superconducting quantum processors provided by IBM Quantum. We use a collision-model approach to implement suitable single- and two-qubit dynamics with a gate-based quantum circuit.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Charlotte Bäcker , Krishna Palaparthy , Walter T. Strunz

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

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

We present the first NMR implementation of a scheme for selective and efficient quantum process tomography without ancilla. We generalize this scheme such that it can be implemented efficiently using only a set of measurements involving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-09 Akshay Gaikwad , Diksha Rehal , Amandeep Singh , Arvind , Kavita Dorai

We obtain sufficient conditions for the efficient simulation of a continuous variable quantum algorithm or process on a classical computer. The resulting theorem is an extension of the Gottesman-Knill theorem to continuous variable quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen D. Bartlett , Barry C. Sanders , Samuel L. Braunstein , Kae Nemoto

Quantum phase estimation is one of the critical building blocks of quantum computing. For early fault-tolerant quantum devices, it is desirable for a quantum phase estimation algorithm to (1) use a minimal number of ancilla qubits, (2)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Hongkang Ni , Haoya Li , Lexing Ying