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Quantum simulation provides a powerful route for exploring many-body phenomena beyond the capabilities of classical computation. Existing approaches typically proceed in the forward direction: a model Hamiltonian is specified, implemented…

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 propose a new method for simulating certain type of time-dependent Hamiltonian $H(t) = \sum_{i=1}^m \gamma_i(t) H_i$ where $\gamma_i(t)$ (and its higher order derivatives) is bounded, computable function of time $t$, and each $H_i$ is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 Nhat A. Nghiem

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

Time-driven quantum systems are important in many different fields of physics like cold atoms, solid state, optics, etc. Many of their properties are encoded in the time evolution operator which is calculated by using a time-ordered product…

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

We propose a method to manipulate, possibly faster than adiabatically, four-level systems with time-dependent couplings and constant energy shifts (detunings in quantum-optical realizations). We inversely engineer the Hamiltonian, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Y. - C. Li , D. Martínez , S. Martínez-Garaot , X. Chen , J. G. Muga

Digital quantum simulation of many-body dynamics relies on Trotterization to decompose the target time evolution into elementary quantum gates operating at a fixed equidistant time discretization. Recent advances have outlined protocols…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Hongzheng Zhao , Ao Chen , Shu-Wei Liu , Marin Bukov , Markus Heyl , Roderich Moessner

Simulation of quantum chemistry is expected to be a principal application of quantum computing. In quantum simulation, a complicated Hamiltonian describing the dynamics of a quantum system is decomposed into its constituent terms, where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Yingkai Ouyang , David R. White , Earl T. Campbell

The field of quantum computing has grown fast in recent years, both in theoretical advancements and the practical construction of quantum computers. These computers were initially proposed, among other reasons, to efficiently simulate and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Marc Farreras , Alba Cervera-Lierta

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

We consider a scenario where we wish to bring a closed system of known Hilbert space dimension $d_S$ (the target), subject to an unknown Hamiltonian evolution, back to its quantum state at a past time $t_0$. The target is out of our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Miguel Navascues

We resurrect a standard construction of analytical mechanics dating from the last century. The technique allows one to pass from any dynamical system whose first order evolution equations are known, and whose bracket algebra is not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 J. A. Rubio , R. P. Woodard

We investigate the inverse problem concerning the evolution of a qubit system, specifically we consider how one can establish the Hamiltonians that account for the evolution of a qubit along a prescribed path in the projected Hilbert space.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. M. Tong , Jing-Ling Chen , L. C. Kwek , C. H. Lai , C. H. Oh

Many promising quantum applications depend on the efficient quantum simulation of an exponentially large sparse Hamiltonian, a task known as sparse Hamiltonian simulation, which is fundamentally important in quantum computation. Although…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Jiaqi Leng , Joseph Li , Yuxiang Peng , Xiaodi Wu

We address the problem of simulating pair-interaction Hamiltonians in n node quantum networks where the subsystems have arbitrary, possibly different, dimensions. We show that any pair-interaction can be used to simulate any other by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Pawel Wocjan , Martin Roetteler , Dominik Janzing , Thomas Beth

We propose a method to produce fast transitionless dynamics for finite-dimensional quantum systems without requiring additional Hamiltonian components not included in the initial control setup, remaining close to the true adiabatic path at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-09 Francesco Petiziol , Benjamin Dive , Florian Mintert , Sandro Wimberger

Any quantum system with a non-trivial Hamiltonian is able to simulate any other Hamiltonian evolution provided that a sufficiently large group of unitary control operations is available. We show that there exist finite groups with this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Pawel Wocjan , Martin Roetteler , Dominik Janzing , Thomas Beth

We study the problem of learning an unknown quantum many-body Hamiltonian $H$ from black-box queries to its time evolution $e^{-\mathrm{i} H t}$. Prior proposals for solving this task either impose some assumptions on $H$, such as its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Andrew Zhao

We propose a simple but versatile protocol to engineer time-dependent Hamiltonians inversely for geometric quantum computation. By utilizing SU(2) transformation, a speedup goal on gate operation is achieved with more freedom to design the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Jian-jian Cheng , Lin Zhang