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Operator scrambling, which governs the spread of quantum information in many-body systems, is a central concept in both condensed matter and high-energy physics. Accurately capturing the emergent properties of these systems remains a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Tianfeng Feng , Yue Cao , Qi Zhao

Digital quantum simulation is a promising application for quantum computers. Their free programmability provides the potential to simulate the unitary evolution of any many-body Hamiltonian with bounded spectrum by discretizing the time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Adrien Bolens , Markus Heyl

Simulation of quantum many-body systems is a promising application of quantum computers. However, implementing the time-evolution operator as a quantum circuit efficiently on near-term devices with limited resources is challenging. Standard…

The simulation of adiabatic evolution has deep connections with Adiabatic Quantum Computation, the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm and adiabatic state preparation. Here we address the error analysis problem in quantum simulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Changhao Yi

In designing quantum control, it is generally required to simulate the controlled system evolution with a classical computer. However, computing the time evolution operator can be quite resource-consuming since the total Hamiltonian is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Xiaodong Yang , Xinfang Nie , Yunlan Ji , Tao Xin , Dawei Lu , Jun Li

In this work we propose an approach for implementing time-evolution of a quantum system using product formulas. The quantum algorithms we develop have provably better scaling (in terms of gate complexity and circuit depth) than a naive…

Digital quantum simulators provide a diversified tool for solving the evolution of quantum systems with complicated Hamiltonians and hold great potential for a wide range of applications. Although much attention is paid to the unitary…

The extent to which quantum computers can simulate physical phenomena and solve the partial differential equations (PDEs) that govern them remains a central open question. In this work, one of the most fundamental PDEs is addressed: the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Julien Zylberman , Thibault Fredon , Nuno F. Loureiro , Fabrice Debbasch

The Suzuki-Trotter decomposition, which digitalizes quantum time evolution, provides a promising framework for simulating quantum dynamics on quantum hardware and exploring quantum advantage over classical computation. However, conventional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Bo Yang , Naoki Negishi

In a circuit-based quantum computer, the computing is performed via the discrete-time evolution driven by quantum gates. Accurate simulation of continuoustime evolution requires a large number of quantum gates and therefore suffers from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 J. L. Shen , P. Wang

Efficient simulation of many-body quantum systems is central to advances in physics, chemistry, and quantum computing, with a key question being whether the simulation cost scales polynomially with the system size. In this work, we analyze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Di Fang , Xiaoxu Wu , Avy Soffer

Near term quantum computers suffer from a degree of decoherence which is prohibitive for high fidelity simulations with deep circuits. An economical use of circuit depth is therefore paramount. For digital quantum simulation of quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-21 Maurits S. J. Tepaske , Dominik Hahn , David J. Luitz

Adiabatic evolution is a central paradigm in quantum physics. Digital simulations of adiabatic processes are generally viewed as costly, since algorithmic errors typically accumulate over the long evolution time, requiring exceptionally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Yangyu Lu , Yifei Huang , Dong An , Qi Zhao , Dingshun Lv , Xiao Yuan

Digital quantum computers are potentially an ideal platform for simulating open quantum many-body systems beyond the digital classical computers. Many studies have focused on obtaining the ground state by simulating time dynamics or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Minjae Jo , Myungshik Kim

Quantum simulation promises to address many challenges in fields ranging from quantum chemistry to material science, and high-energy physics, and could be implemented in noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. A challenge in building good…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Yi-Xiang Liu , Jordan Hines , Zhi Li , Ashok Ajoy , Paola Cappellaro

Adiabatic quantum computing is a general framework for preparing eigenstates of Hamiltonians on quantum devices. However, its digital implementation requires an efficient Hamiltonian simulation subroutine, which may introduce extra…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Dong An , Pedro C. S. Costa , Dominic W. Berry

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

Quantum simulation is a cornerstone application of quantum computing, yet how fundamental quantum resources--entanglement and non-stabilizerness (``magic")--shape simulation fidelity remains an open question. In this work, we establish a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Xiangran Zhang , Jue Xu , Qi Zhao , You Zhou

We present an empirical analysis of the scaling of the minimal quantum circuit depth required for a variational quantum simulation (VQS) method to obtain a solution to the time evolution of a quantum system within a predefined error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Mario Ponce , Thomas Cope , Inés de Vega , Martin Leib

Quantum simulation is one of the most promising scientific applications of quantum computers. Due to decoherence and noise in current devices, it is however challenging to perform digital quantum simulation in a regime that is intractable…