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Simulating fermionic systems on a quantum computer requires a high-performing mapping of fermionic states to qubits. A characteristic of an efficient mapping is its ability to translate local fermionic interactions into local qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Mitchell Chiew , Sergii Strelchuk

We consider simulating an $n$-qubit Hamiltonian with nearest-neighbor interactions evolving for time $t$ on a quantum computer. We show that this simulation has gate complexity $(nt)^{1+o(1)}$ using product formulas, a straightforward…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-19 Andrew M. Childs , Yuan Su

Quantum simulation algorithms often require numerous ancilla qubits and deep circuits, prohibitive for near-term hardware. We introduce a framework for simulating quantum channels using ensembles of low-depth circuits in place of many-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-01 Joseph Peetz , Scott E. Smart , Prineha Narang

This work aims to address the bottleneck issues of hardware resource limitation and decoherence error in the Hamiltonian simulation of quantum fluids, which are caused by the standard quantum Fourier transform and the evolution of momentum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Zhiyuan Zhang , Bolin Zhang , Yongguang Lv , Ruiqing He , Hengliang Guo , Jiandong Shang , Qiang Chen

We describe an improved version of the quantum simulation method based on the implementation of a truncated Taylor series of the evolution operator. The idea is to add an extra step to the previously known algorithm which implements an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-05 Leonardo Novo , Dominic W. Berry

Quantum algorithms require accurate representations of electronic states on a quantum device, yet the approximation of electronic wave functions for strongly correlated systems remains a profound theoretical challenge, with existing methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Dipanjali Halder , Dibyendu Mondal , Rahul Maitra

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

Quantum variational algorithms (QVAs) are increasingly potent tools for simulating quantum many-body systems on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. This work examines the application of the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-28 Dhritimalya Roy , Somnath Nag

Simulating the dynamics of electrons and other fermionic particles in quantum chemistry, materials science, and high-energy physics is one of the most promising applications of fault-tolerant quantum computers. However, the overhead in…

The simulation of quantum many-body systems, relevant for quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics, is one of the most promising applications of near-term quantum computers before fault-tolerance. However, since the vast majority of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Arash Jafarizadeh , Frank Pollmann , Adam Gammon-Smith

To gain deeper insight into the dynamics of complex quantum systems we need a quantum leap in computer simulations. We can not translate quantum behaviour arising with superposition states or entanglement efficiently into the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-28 Axel Friedenauer , Hector Schmitz , Jan Tibor Glückert , Diego Porras , Tobias Schätz

We introduce a family of identities that express general linear non-unitary evolution operators as a linear combination of unitary evolution operators, each solving a Hamiltonian simulation problem. This formulation can exponentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Dong An , Andrew M. Childs , Lin Lin

Various Hamiltonian simulation algorithms have been proposed to efficiently study the dynamics of quantum systems on a quantum computer. The existing algorithms generally approximate the time evolution operators, which may need a deep…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Zi-Jian Zhang , Jinzhao Sun , Xiao Yuan , Man-Hong Yung

In the study of open quantum systems, one typically obtains the decoherence dynamics by solving a master equation. The master equation is derived using knowledge of some basic properties of the system, the environment and their interaction:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-22 Hefeng Wang , S. Ashhab , Franco Nori

We consider simulating the BCS Hamiltonian, a model of low temperature superconductivity, on a quantum computer. In particular we consider conducting the simulation on the qubus quantum computer, which uses a continuous variable ancilla to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-08 Katherine L. Brown , Suvabrata De , Vivien M. Kendon , William J. Munro

We provide numerical evidence that the quantum Fourier transform can be efficiently represented in a matrix product operator with a size growing relatively slowly with the number of qubits. Additionally, we numerically show that the tensors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-05 Kieran J. Woolfe , Charles D. Hill , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

Simulating quantum dynamics on classical computers is challenging for large systems due to the significant memory requirements. Simulation on quantum computers is a promising alternative, but fully optimizing quantum circuits to minimize…

We outline refined versions of two major quantum algorithms for performing principal component analysis and solving linear equations. Our methods are exponentially faster than their classical counterparts and even previous quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Nhat A. Nghiem

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

Simulating molecules is believed to be one of the early-stage applications for quantum computers. Current state-of-the-art quantum computers are limited in size and coherence, therefore optimizing resources to execute quantum algorithms is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Kanav Setia , Richard Chen , Julia E. Rice , Antonio Mezzacapo , Marco Pistoia , James Whitfield