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The phase estimation algorithm is a powerful quantum algorithm with applications in cryptography, number theory, and simulation of quantum systems. We use this algorithm to simulate the time evolution of a system of two spin-1/2 particles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Scott Johnstun , Jean-François Van Huele

Mapping functions on bits to Hamiltonians acting on qubits has many applications in quantum computing. In particular, Hamiltonians representing Boolean functions are required for applications of quantum annealing or the quantum approximate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Stuart Hadfield

We present a new approach to simulating Hamiltonian dynamics based on implementing linear combinations of unitary operations rather than products of unitary operations. The resulting algorithm has superior performance to existing simulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-02 Andrew M. Childs , Nathan Wiebe

We construct a simple translationally invariant, nearest-neighbor Hamiltonian on a chain of 10-dimensional qudits that makes it possible to realize universal quantum computing without any external control during the computational process.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel Nagaj , Pawel Wocjan

We present a quantum computational framework using Hamiltonian Truncation (HT) for simulating real-time scattering processes in $(1+1)$-dimensional scalar $\phi^4$ theory. Unlike traditional lattice discretisation methods, HT approximates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 James Ingoldby , Michael Spannowsky , Timur Sypchenko , Simon Williams , Matthew Wingate

A potential approach for demonstrating quantum advantage is using quantum computers to simulate fermionic systems. Quantum algorithms for fermionic system simulation usually involve the Hamiltonian evolution and measurements. However, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Qing-Song Li , Jiaxuan Zhang , Huan-Yu Liu , Qingchun Wang , Yu-Chun Wu , Guo-Ping Guo

We study the problem of learning a Hamiltonian $H$ to precision $\varepsilon$, supposing we are given copies of its Gibbs state $\rho=\exp(-\beta H)/\operatorname{Tr}(\exp(-\beta H))$ at a known inverse temperature $\beta$. Anshu,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Jeongwan Haah , Robin Kothari , Ewin Tang

Simulating the time-evolution of quantum mechanical systems is BQP-hard and expected to be one of the foremost applications of quantum computers. We consider classical algorithms for the approximation of Hamiltonian dynamics using…

As a milestone for general-purpose computing machines, we demonstrate that quantum processors can be programmed to efficiently simulate dynamics that are not native to the hardware. Moreover, on noisy devices without error correction, we…

For any unitary representation $\rho$ on a finite-dimensional Hilbert space \(V\) with differential \(d\rho : \mathfrak{g} \to \mathfrak{u}(V)\) for the Lie algebra $\mathfrak g$, we consider the Hamiltonian evolution \[ U_X(t) \coloneqq…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Naihuan Jing , Molena Nguyen

Simulating the time evolution of a physical system at quantum mechanical levels of detail -- known as Hamiltonian Simulation (HS) -- is an important and interesting problem across physics and chemistry. For this task, algorithms that run on…

Unitary matrices arise in many ways in physics, in particular as a time evolution operator. For a periodically driven system one frequently wishes to compute a Floquet Hamilonian that should be a Hermitian operator $H$ such that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Terry Loring , Fredy Vides

We construct quantum circuits which exactly encode the spectra of correlated electron models up to errors from rotation synthesis. By invoking these circuits as oracles within the recently introduced "qubitization" framework, one can use…

Many applications of practical interest rely on time evolution of Hamiltonians that are given by a sum of Pauli operators. Quantum circuits for exact time evolution of single Pauli operators are well known, and can be extended trivially to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Ewout van den Berg , Kristan Temme

The Hamiltonian operator plays a central role in quantum theory being a generator of unitary quantum dynamics. Its expectation value describes the energy of a quantum system. Typically being a non-unitary operator, the action of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Tatiana A. Bespalova , Oleksandr Kyriienko

We provide a general method for efficiently simulating time-dependent Hamiltonian dynamics on a circuit-model based quantum computer. Our approach is based on approximating the truncated Dyson series of the evolution operator, extending the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Maria Kieferova , Artur Scherer , Dominic Berry

Quantum signal processing provides an optimal procedure for simulating Hamiltonian evolution on a quantum computer using calls to a block encoding of the Hamiltonian. In many situations it is possible to control between forward and reverse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Dominic W. Berry , Danial Motlagh , Giacomo Pantaleoni , Nathan Wiebe

We investigate the quantum algorithm of Babbush et al. (arXiv:2303.13012v3) for simulating coupled harmonic oscillators, which promises exponential speedups over classical methods. Focusing on linearly connected oscillator chains, we bridge…

We present an efficient algorithm for simulating the time evolution due to a sparse Hamiltonian. In terms of the maximum degree d and dimension N of the space on which the Hamiltonian H acts for time t, this algorithm uses (d^2(d+log*…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-26 Andrew M. Childs , Robin Kothari

We describe a simple quantum algorithm to simulate time-dependent Hamiltonian, extending the methodology of quantum signal processing. The framework achieves optimal scaling up to some factor with respect to other parameters, and nearly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Nhat A. Nghiem