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Compiling quantum circuits to account for hardware restrictions is an essential part of the quantum computing stack. Circuit compilation allows us to adapt algorithm descriptions into a sequence of operations supported by real quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Alejandro Villoria , Henning Basold , Alfons Laarman

The central challenge of quantum computing is implementing high-fidelity quantum gates at scale. However, many existing approaches to qubit control suffer from a scale-performance trade-off, impeding progress towards the creation of useful…

All-to-all interactions arise naturally in many areas of theoretical physics and across diverse experimental quantum platforms, motivating a systematic study of their information-processing power. Assuming each pair of qubits interacts with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Chao Yin

Trotter product formulas constitute a cornerstone quantum Hamiltonian simulation technique. However, the efficient implementation of Hamiltonian evolution of nested commutators remains an under explored area. In this work, we construct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 F. Casas , A. Escorihuela-Tomàs , P. A. Moreno Casares

Quantum computing has shown great potential in various quantum chemical applications such as drug discovery, material design, and catalyst optimization. Although significant progress has been made in quantum simulation of simple molecules,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Changsu Cao , Jinzhao Sun , Xiao Yuan , Han-Shi Hu , Hung Q. Pham , Dingshun Lv

Simulating strongly correlated fermionic systems is notoriously hard on classical computers. An alternative approach, as proposed by Feynman, is to use a quantum computer. Here, we discuss quantum simulation of strongly correlated fermionic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 Zhang Jiang , Kevin J. Sung , Kostyantyn Kechedzhi , Vadim N. Smelyanskiy , Sergio Boixo

Quantum computers can efficiently simulate the dynamics of quantum systems. In this paper, we study the cost of digitally simulating the dynamics of several physically relevant systems using the first-order product formula algorithm. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 Minh C. Tran , Su-Kuan Chu , Yuan Su , Andrew M. Childs , Alexey V. Gorshkov

Many quantum algorithms, such as adiabatic algorithms (e.g. AQC) and phase randomisation, require simulating Hamiltonian evolution. In addition, the simulation of physical systems is an important objective in its own right. In many cases,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Benoît Dubus , Joseph Cunningham , Jérémie Roland

Processing qubit Hamiltonians derived from electronic-structure problems can become classically prohibitive because many downstream manipulations still rely on dense operator constructions whose cost grows exponentially with qubit number.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Yuqi Zhang , Sixu Chen , Feixiong Cheng , Qiang Guan

A number of quantum algorithms have been performed on small quantum computers; these include Shor's prime factorization algorithm, error correction, Grover's search algorithm and a number of analog and digital quantum simulations. Because…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 Andrew T. Sornborger

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

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…

In quantum control theory, a question of fundamental and practical interest is how an arbitrary unitary transformation can be decomposed into minimum number of elementary rotations for implementation, subject to various physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Xiao-Ming Zhang , Jianan Li , Xin Wang , Man-Hong Yung

Methods for electronic structure based on Gaussian and molecular orbital discretizations offer a well established, compact representation that forms much of the foundation of correlated quantum chemistry calculations on both classical and…

In this work, we present a quantum algorithm for direct first-principles simulation of electron-nuclear dynamics on a first-quantized real-space grid. Our algorithm achieves best-in-class efficiency for block-encoding the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Matthew Pocrnic , Ignacio Loaiza , Juan Miguel Arrazola , Nathan Wiebe , Danial Motlagh

$ $In its usual form, Grover's quantum search algorithm uses $O(\sqrt{N})$ queries and $O(\sqrt{N} \log N)$ other elementary gates to find a solution in an $N$-bit database. Grover in 2002 showed how to reduce the number of other gates to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-24 Srinivasan Arunachalam , Ronald de Wolf

Given the Hamiltonian, the evaluation of unitary operators has been at the heart of many quantum algorithms. Motivated by existing deterministic and random methods, we present a hybrid approach, where Hamiltonians with large amplitude are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-17 Shi Jin , Xiantao Li

Simulation of quantum systems is notoriously challenging for classical computers, while quantum hardware is naturally well-suited for this task. However, the imperfections of contemporary quantum systems poses a considerable challenge in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Yotam Shapira , Jovan Markov , Nitzan Akerman , Ady Stern , Roee Ozeri

Quantum computers have the potential to advance material design and drug discovery by performing costly electronic structure calculations. A critical aspect of this application requires optimizing the limited resources of the quantum…

A key requirement to perform simulations of large quantum systems on near-term quantum hardware is the design of quantum algorithms with short circuit depth that finish within the available coherence time. A way to stay within the limits of…