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Hamiltonian simulations are key subroutines in adiabatic quantum computation, quantum control, and quantum many-body physics, where quantum dynamics often happen in the low-energy sector. In contrast to time-independent Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Shuo Zhou , Zhaokai Pan , Weiyuan Gong , Tongyang Li

We develop a new algorithm based on the time-dependent variational principle applied to matrix product states to efficiently simulate the real- and imaginary time dynamics for infinite one-dimensional quantum lattice systems. This…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-13 Jutho Haegeman , J. Ignacio Cirac , Tobias J. Osborne , Iztok Pizorn , Henri Verschelde , Frank Verstraete

The product formula, commonly known as Trotter decomposition, is a central tool for digital quantum simulation, whose performance depends critically on how the Hamiltonian is partitioned into tractable blocks. Standard decompositions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Naoki Negishi , Bo Yang

Many-body systems arising in condensed matter physics and quantum optics inevitably couple to the environment and need to be modelled as open quantum systems. While near-optimal algorithms have been developed for simulating many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Xie-Hang Yu , Hongchao Li , J. Ignacio Cirac , Rahul Trivedi

The Lie--Trotter product formula is a foundational approximation for the quantum partition function, yet obtaining rigorous error bounds for the unbounded Hamiltonians common in physics remains a significant challenge. This paper provides a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Xuda Ye , Zhennan Zhou

We investigate the sample complexity of Hamiltonian simulation: how many copies of an unknown quantum state are required to simulate a Hamiltonian encoded by the density matrix of that state? We show that the procedure proposed by Lloyd,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-20 Shelby Kimmel , Cedric Yen-Yu Lin , Guang Hao Low , Maris Ozols , Theodore J. Yoder

Understanding which subclasses of quantum circuits are efficiently classically simulable is fundamental to delineating the boundary between classical and quantum computation. In this context, it is well known that certain tasks based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Su Yeon Chang , Martin Larocca , M. Cerezo

The problem of simulating sparse Hamiltonians on quantum computers is well studied. The evolution of a sparse N x N Hamiltonian H for time t can be simulated using O(||Ht||poly(log N)) operations, which is essentially optimal due to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 Andrew M. Childs , Robin Kothari

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

Local Hamiltonians, $H_k$, describe non-trivial $k$-body interactions in quantum many-body systems. Here, we address the dynamical simulatability of a $k$-local Hamiltonian by a simpler one, $H_{k'}$, with $k'<k$, under the realistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Ayaka Usui , Anna Sanpera , María García Díaz

Quantum particle simulations have largely been based on time-independent, split-operator schemes in which kinetic and potential operators are interwoven to provide accurate approximations to system dynamics. These simulations can be very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-26 Andrew T. Sornborger , Phillip Stancil , Michael Geller

A recent work considered quantum simulation of Quantum Electrodynamics on a lattice in the Coulomb gauge with gauge degrees of freedom represented in the occupation basis in momentum space. Here we consider the more efficient representation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Xiaojun Yao

Current quantum devices execute specific tasks that are hard for classical computers and have the potential to solve problems such as quantum simulation of material science and chemistry, even without error correction. For practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 V. M. Bastidas , T. Haug , C. Gravel , L. -C. Kwek , W. J. Munro , Kae Nemoto

The advantage of simulating lattice field theory with quantum computers is hamstrung by the limited resources that induce large errors from finite volume and sizable lattice spacings. Previous work has shown how classical simulations near…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-01-04 Marcela Carena , Erik J. Gustafson , Henry Lamm , Ying-Ying Li , Wanqiang Liu

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

Dynamic simulation of materials is a promising application for near-term quantum computers. Current algorithms for Hamiltonian simulation, however, produce circuits that grow in depth with increasing simulation time, limiting feasible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-10 Lindsay Bassman , Roel Van Beeumen , Ed Younis , Ethan Smith , Costin Iancu , Wibe A. de Jong

We present quantum algorithms for the simulation of quantum systems in one spatial dimension, which result in quantum speedups that range from superpolynomial to polynomial. We first describe a method to simulate the evolution of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-09 Rolando D. Somma

We consider the task of simulating time evolution under a Hamiltonian $H$ within its low-energy subspace. Assuming access to a block-encoding of $H'=(H-E)/\lambda$ for some $E \in \mathbb R$, the goal is to implement an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Alexander Zlokapa , Rolando D. Somma

It is imperative that useful quantum computers be very difficult to simulate classically; otherwise classical computers could be used for the applications envisioned for the quantum ones. Perfect quantum computers are unarguably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Yiqing Zhou , E. Miles Stoudenmire , Xavier Waintal

When simulating the dynamics of open quantum systems with quantum computers, it is essential to accurately approximate the system's behaviour while preserving the physicality of its evolution. Traditionally, for Markovian open quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 I. J. David , I. Sinayskiy , F. Petruccione