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We present a quantum algorithm for simulating the dynamics of a first-quantized Hamiltonian in real space based on the truncated Taylor series algorithm. We avoid the possibility of singularities by applying various cutoffs to the system…

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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

Molecular dynamics simulations use statistical mechanics at the atomistic scale to enable both the elucidation of fundamental mechanisms and the engineering of matter for desired tasks. The behavior of molecular systems at the microscale is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-25 Wujie Wang , Simon Axelrod , Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

We introduce a quantum algorithm for simulating the time-dependent Dirac equation in 3+1 dimensions using discrete-time quantum walks. Thus far, promising quantum algorithms have been proposed to simulate quantum dynamics in…

Quantum walk is one of the main tools for quantum algorithms. Defined by analogy to classical random walk, a quantum walk is a time-homogeneous quantum process on a graph. Both random and quantum walks can be defined either in continuous or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-10 Andrew M. Childs

We provide a quantum method for simulating Hamiltonian evolution with complexity polynomial in the logarithm of the inverse error. This is an exponential improvement over existing methods for Hamiltonian simulation. In addition, its scaling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-24 Dominic W. Berry , Richard Cleve , Rolando D. Somma

Hamiltonian simulation, i.e., simulating the real time evolution of a target quantum system, is a natural application of quantum computing. Trotter-Suzuki splitting methods can generate corresponding quantum circuits; however, a faithful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Ayse Kotil , Rahul Banerjee , Qunsheng Huang , Christian B. Mendl

We present an end-to-end quantum algorithm for simulating nonlinear dynamics described by a system of stochastic dissipative differential equations with a quadratic nonlinearity. The stochastic part of the system is modeled by a Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Sergey Bravyi , Robert Manson-Sawko , Mykhaylo Zayats , Sergiy Zhuk

Stochastic methods offer an effective way to suppress coherent errors in quantum simulation. In particular, the randomized compilation protocol may reduce circuit depth by randomly sampling Hamiltonian terms rather than following the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Yu-Xia Wu , Yun-Zhuo Fan , Dan-Bo Zhang

We study the Hamiltonian-independent contribution to the complexity of quantum optimal control problems. The optimization of controls that steer quantum systems to desired objectives can itself be considered a classical dynamical system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-28 Raj Chakrabarti , Rebing Wu , Herschel Rabitz

Unitary operations are the building blocks of quantum programs. Our task is to design effcient or optimal implementations of these unitary operations by employing the intrinsic physical resources of a given n-qubit system. The most common…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Zeier , Markus Grassl , Thomas Beth

The efficient validation of quantum devices is critical for emerging technological applications. In a wide class of use-cases the precise engineering of a Hamiltonian is required both for the implementation of gate-based quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 Agnes Valenti , Evert van Nieuwenburg , Sebastian Huber , Eliska Greplova

Nonlinear stochastic differential equations (NSDEs) are a pillar of mathematical modeling for scientific and engineering applications. Accurate and efficient simulation of large-scale NSDEs is prohibitive on classical computers due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Xiangyu Li , Ahmet Burak Catli , Ho Kiat Lim , Matthew Pocrnic , Dong An , Jin-Peng Liu , Nathan Wiebe

We introduce an algorithm to improve the error scaling of product formulas by randomly sampling the generator of their exact error unitary. Our approach takes an arbitrary product formula of time $t$, $S_k(t)$ with error $O(t^{k+1})$ and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Lana Mineh , Adrian Chapman , Raul A. Santos

Existing approaches to analogue quantum simulations of time-dependent quantum systems rely on perturbative corrections to quantum simulations of time-independent quantum systems. We overcome this restriction to perturbative treatments with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Boyuan Shi , Florian Mintert

Quantum optimization algorithms hold the promise of solving classically hard, discrete optimization problems in practice. The requirement of encoding such problems in a Hamiltonian realized with a finite -- and currently small -- number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-10 Yifeng Rocky Zhu , David Joseph , Cong Ling , Florian Mintert

A Hamiltonian algorithm, both theoretical and numerical, to obtain the reduced equations implementing Pontryagine's Maximum Principle for singular linear-quadratic optimal control problems is presented. This algorithm is inspired on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-13 M. Delgado-Tellez , A. Ibort

We use complexity theory to rigorously investigate the difficulty of classically simulating evolution under many-body localized (MBL) Hamiltonians. Using the defining feature that MBL systems have a complete set of quasilocal integrals of…

We construct quantum algorithms to compute the solution and/or physical observables of nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi equations (HJE) via linear representations or exact mappings between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Shi Jin , Nana Liu , Yue Yu

The identification of environmental changes is crucial in many fields. The present research is aimed at investigating the optimal performance for detecting change points in a quantum system when its Hamiltonian suddenly changes at a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Kenji Nakahira