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Classical simulation of noisy quantum circuits is essential for understanding quantum computing experiments. It enables scalable error characterization, analysis of how noise impacts quantum algorithms, and optimized implementations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Ashe Miller , Corey Ostrove , Jordan Hines , Robin Blume-Kohout , Kevin Young , Timothy Proctor

Simulating chemical dynamics is computationally challenging, especially for nonadiabatic dynamics, where numerically exact classical simulations scale exponentially with system size, becoming intractable for even small molecules. On quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Henry L. Nourse , Vanessa C. Olaya-Agudelo , Ivan Kassal

We study the physical resources required to implement general quantum operations, and provide new bounds on the minimum possible size which an environment must be in order to perform certain quantum operations. We prove that contrary to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 B. M. Terhal , I. L. Chuang , D. P. DiVincenzo , M. Grassl , J. A. Smolin

Hamiltonian simulation on quantum computers is strongly constrained by gate counts, motivating techniques to reduce circuit depths. While tensor networks are natural competitors to quantum computers, we instead leverage them to support…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Joe Gibbs , Lukasz Cincio

The accurate computational study of wavepacket nuclear dynamics is considered to be a classically intractable problem, particularly with increasing dimensions. Here we present two algorithms that, in conjunction with other methods developed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Debadrita Saha , Philip Richerme , Srinivasan S. Iyengar

For a quantum system undergoing non-Markovian open quantum dynamics, we demonstrate a tomography algorithm based on multi-time measurements of the system, which reconstructs a minimal environment coupled to the system, such that the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Chu Guo

Until high-fidelity quantum computers with a large number of qubits become widely available, classical simulation remains a vital tool for algorithm design, tuning, and validation. We present a simulator for the Quantum Approximate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 Danylo Lykov , Ruslan Shaydulin , Yue Sun , Yuri Alexeev , Marco Pistoia

We introduce novel algorithms for the quantum simulation of molecular systems which are asymptotically more efficient than those based on the Trotter-Suzuki decomposition. We present the first application of a recently developed technique…

Quantum simulations of chemistry in first quantization offer important advantages over approaches in second quantization including faster convergence to the continuum limit and the opportunity for practical simulations outside the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-02 Yuan Su , Dominic W. Berry , Nathan Wiebe , Nicholas Rubin , Ryan Babbush

We show a certain kind of non-local operations can be simulated by sampling a set of local operations with a quasi-probability distribution when the task of a quantum circuit is to evaluate an expectation value of observables. Utilizing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Kosuke Mitarai , Keisuke Fujii

Interactions of molecules with their environment influence the course and outcome of almost all chemical reactions. However, classical computers struggle to accurately simulate complicated molecule-environment interactions because of the…

The field of linear optical quantum computation (LOQC) will soon need a repertoire of experimental milestones. We make progress in this direction by describing several experiments based on Grover's algorithm. These experiments range from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jennifer L. Dodd , Timothy C. Ralph , G. J. Milburn

We study the problem of simulating the time evolution of a lattice Hamiltonian, where the qubits are laid out on a lattice and the Hamiltonian only includes geometrically local interactions (i.e., a qubit may only interact with qubits in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-24 Jeongwan Haah , Matthew B. Hastings , Robin Kothari , Guang Hao Low

We show how a quantum computer may efficiently simulate a disordered Hamiltonian, by incorporating a pseudo-random number generator directly into the time evolution circuit. This technique is applied to quantum simulation of few-body…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-03-25 Andrei Alexandru , Paulo F. Bedaque , Scott Lawrence

Quantum simulation uses a well-known quantum system to predict the behavior of another quantum system. Certain limitations in this technique arise, however, when applied to specific problems, as we demonstrate with a theoretical and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kenneth R. Brown , Robert J. Clark , Isaac L. Chuang

In Ref. [Phys. Rev. A 100, 062317 (2019)], the authors reported an algorithm to implement, in a circuit-based quantum computer, a general quantum measurement (GQM) of a two-level quantum system, a qubit. Even though their algorithm seems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-10 Douglas F. Pinto , Marcelo S. Zanetti , Marcos L. W. Basso , Jonas Maziero

Simulating open quantum systems on quantum computers presents a fundamental challenge: open quantum dynamics are intrinsically nonunitary, whereas quantum computers operate through unitary evolution. Conventional approaches overcome this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Sameer Dambal , Akira Sone , Yu Zhang

We present a quantum algorithm for simulating the dynamics of Hamiltonians that are not necessarily sparse. Our algorithm is based on the input model where the entries of the Hamiltonian are stored in a data structure in a quantum random…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Chunhao Wang , Leonard Wossnig

In a digital quantum simulator, basic two-qubit interactions are manipulated by means of fast local control operations to establish a desired target Hamiltonian. Here we consider a quantum simulator based on logical systems, i.e. where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Ferran Riera-Sàbat , Pavel Sekatski , Wolfgang Dür

Realizing non-unitary transformations on unitary-gate based quantum devices is critically important for simulating a variety of physical problems including open quantum systems and subnormalized quantum states. We present a dilation based…