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The simulation of quantum systems has been a key aim of quantum technologies for decades, and the generalisation to open systems is necessary to include physically realistic systems. We introduce an approach for quantum simulations of open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-14 Benjamin Dive , Florian Mintert , Daniel Burgarth

Determining properties of ground states of spin Hamiltonians remains a topic of central relevance connecting disciplines of mathematical, theoretical and applied physics. In the last few decades, ground state properties of physical systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Jacob Biamonte

High-dimensional simulation optimization is notoriously challenging. We propose a new sampling algorithm that converges to a global optimal solution and suffers minimally from the curse of dimensionality. The algorithm consists of two…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-21 Liang Ding , Rui Tuo , Xiaowei Zhang

The physics of a quantum system with many degrees of freedom is often approximated by downfolding: most of the degrees of freedom are "folded into" a much smaller number of degrees of freedom, resulting in an effective Hamiltonian that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Troy Van Voorhis

Quantum Hamiltonian simulation, which simulates the evolution of quantum systems and probes quantum phenomena, is one of the most promising applications of quantum computing. Recent experimental results suggest that Hamiltonian-oriented…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yuxiang Peng , Jacob Young , Pengyu Liu , Xiaodi Wu

Analog quantum simulation offers a hardware-specific approach to studying quantum dynamics, but mapping a model Hamiltonian onto the available device parameters requires matching the hardware dynamics. We introduce a paradigm for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Paul Kairys , Travis S. Humble

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

Electronic structure simulation is an anticipated application for quantum computers. Due to high-dimensional quantum entanglement in strongly correlated systems, the quantum resources required to perform such simulations are far beyond the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Jie Liu , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang

We develop a framework and give an example for situations where two distinct Hamiltonians living in the same Hilbert space can be used to simulate the same physics. As an example of an analog simulation, we first discuss how one can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Karol Gietka , Ayaka Usui , Jianqiao Deng , Thomas Busch

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

To date, all proposed quantum algorithms for simulating quantum field theory (QFT) simulate (continuous-time) Hamiltonian lattice QFT as a stepping stone. Two overlooked issues are how large we can take the timestep in these simulations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-27 Terry Farrelly , Julien Streich

We develop randomized quantum algorithms to simulate quantum collision models, also known as repeated interaction schemes, which provide a rich framework to model various open-system dynamics. The underlying technique involves composing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Kushagra Garg , Zeeshan Ahmed , Subhadip Mitra , Shantanav Chakraborty

It is crucial to reduce the resources required to run quantum algorithms and simulate physical systems on quantum computers due to coherence time limitations. With regards to Hamiltonian simulation, a significant effort has focused on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 Diana B. Chamaki , Stuart Hadfield , Katherine Klymko , Bryan O'Gorman , Norm M. Tubman

With a view toward addressing the explosive growth in the computational demands of nuclear structure and reactions modeling, we develop a novel quantum algorithm for neutron-nucleus simulations with general potentials, which provides…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Soorya Rethinasamy , Ethan Guo , Alexander Wei , Mark M. Wilde , Kristina D. Launey

The practical application of quantum technologies to chemical problems faces significant challenges, particularly in the treatment of realistic basis sets and the accurate inclusion of electron correlation effects. A direct approach to…

Quantum simulation of non-Abelian gauge theories requires careful handling of gauge redundancy. We address this challenge by presenting universal principles for treating gauge symmetry that apply to any quantum simulation approach,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Masanori Hanada , Shunji Matsuura , Andreas Schafer , Jinzhao Sun

We propose dynamical control schemes for Hamiltonian simulation in many-body quantum systems that avoid instantaneous control operations and rely solely on realistic bounded-strength control Hamiltonians. Each simulation protocol consists…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-25 Adam D. Bookatz , Pawel Wocjan , Lorenza Viola

The Hamiltonian constraint remains an elusive object in loop quantum gravity because its action on spinnetworks leads to changes in their corresponding graphs. As a result, calculations in loop quantum gravity are often considered…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 Thiago L. M. Guedes , Guillermo A. Mena Marugán , Markus Müller , Francesca Vidotto

In this work, we present a new algorithm for generating quantum circuits that efficiently implement continuous time quantum walks on arbitrary simple sparse graphs. The algorithm, called matching decomposition, works by decomposing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Mostafa Atallah , Alvin Gonzales , Daniel Dilley , Igor Gaidai , Zain H. Saleem , Rebekah Herrman

In this work, using a NISQ framework, we obtain the gap of a BCS Hamiltonian. This could lead to interesting implications for superconductivity research. For such task, we choose to use the Variational Quantum Deflation and analyze the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-02 Nahum Sá , Ivan S. Oliveira , Itzhak Roditi