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Quantum computing relies on processing information within a quantum system with many continuous degrees of freedom. The practical implementation of this idea requires complete control over all of the 2^n independent amplitudes of a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. I. Dyakonov

Quantum computing offers significant speedups for simulating physical, chemical, and biological systems, and for optimization and machine learning. As quantum software grows in complexity, the classical simulation of quantum computers,…

myqcs is a quantum circuit simulator using tensor. The simulator can be used with both wave functions or density matrices. The simulator also included noise that can be varied in form and that can be different for each gate.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 J. P. J. Rodriguez

Quantum computing comes with the potential to push computational boundaries in various domains including, e.g., cryptography, simulation, optimization, and machine learning. Exploiting the principles of quantum mechanics, new algorithms can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Julian Berberich , Robert L. Kosut , Thomas Schulte-Herbrüggen

Quantum computing is a new model of computation, based on quantum physics. Quantum computers can be exponentially faster than conventional computers for problems such as factoring. Besides full-scale quantum computers, more restricted…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Andris Ambainis , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

In this research article, we survey existing quantum physics-related games and, based on this survey, propose a definition for the concept of quantum games. We define a quantum game as any type of rule-based game that either employs the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-24 Laura Piispanen , Marcel Pfaffhauser , James Wootton , Julian Togelius , Annakaisa Kultima

As quantum computers of non-trivial size become available in the near future, it is imperative to develop tools to emulate small quantum computers. This allows for validation and debugging of algorithms as well as exploring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Thomas Häner , Damian S. Steiger , Mikhail Smelyanskiy , Matthias Troyer

Quantum computation is a promising emerging technology which, compared to conventional computation, allows for substantial speed-ups e.g. for integer factorization or database search. However, since physical realizations of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 Alwin Zulehner , Robert Wille

Faster algorithms, novel cryptographic mechanisms, and alternative methods of communication become possible when the model underlying information and computation changes from a classical mechanical model to a quantum mechanical one. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-29 Eleanor G. Rieffel

Quantum hardware has the potential to efficiently solve computationally difficult problems in physics and chemistry to reap enormous practical rewards. Analogue quantum simulation accomplishes this by using the dynamics of a controlled…

Although a universal quantum computer is still far from reach, the tremendous advances in controllable quantum devices, in particular with solid-state systems, make it possible to physically implement "quantum simulators". Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Zhixin Wang , Xiu Gu , Lian-Ao Wu , Yu-xi Liu

Since the introduction of quantum mechanics, it has been taught mostly as a theoretical subject. It is also viewed as a theory that provides a best understanding of the nature, but which does not have much practical applications in our day…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-17 Anirban Pathak

We give a review of concepts related to connection of classical and quantum theories, from the phase space perspective. Quantum theory is described by non-commutative operators of coordinates and momenta, results in values having a certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Miloš D. Davidović , Ljubica D. Davidović , Milena D. Davidović

Quantum computing promises to revolutionize several scientific and technological domains through fundamentally new ways of processing information. Among its most compelling applications is digital quantum simulation, where quantum computers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Laurin E. Fischer

Quantum states are the key mathematical objects in quantum theory. It is therefore surprising that physicists have been unable to agree on what a quantum state truly represents. One possibility is that a pure quantum state corresponds…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 Matthew F. Pusey , Jonathan Barrett , Terry Rudolph

This is a short introduction to Quantum Computing intended for physicists. The basic idea of a quantum computer is introduced. Then we concentrate on Shor's integer factoring algorithm.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christof Zalka

Quantum simulation is a leading candidate for demonstrating practical quantum advantage over classical computation, as it is believed to provide exponentially more compute power than any classical system. It offers new means of studying the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Maja Franz , Lukas Schmidbauer , Joshua Ammermann , Ina Schaefer , Wolfgang Mauerer

This chapter is a short pedagogical introduction to the use of quantum logic for the simulation of complex quantum systems, including a simulation example on actual quantum hardware.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati

Quantum computers take advantage of interfering quantum alternatives in order to handle problems that might be too time consuming with algorithms based on classical logic. Developing quantum computers requires new ways of thinking beyond…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-10 W. C. Parke

The nature of quantum computation is discussed. It is argued that, in terms of the amount of information manipulated in a given time, quantum and classical computation are equally efficient. Quantum superposition does not permit quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-10 A. M. Steane