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Quantum phase estimation (QPE) is a cornerstone algorithm for extracting Hamiltonian eigenvalues, but its standard, eigenstate-centric form relies on carefully prepared coherent inputs that are costly or impractical for many strongly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Stefano Scali , Josh Kirsopp , Antonio Márquez Romero , Michał Krompiec

Quantum phase estimation is a central primitive in quantum algorithms and sensing, where performance is governed by the sensitivity of measurement signals to the target parameter. While existing methods have developed increasingly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Zikang Jia , Suying Liu , Yulong Dong

In recent years quantum simulation has made great strides culminating in experiments that operate in a regime that existing supercomputers cannot easily simulate. Although this raises the possibility that special purpose analog quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 Nathan Wiebe , Christopher Granade , Christopher Ferrie , D. G. Cory

The difficulty of simulating quantum dynamics depends on the norm of the Hamiltonian. When the Hamiltonian varies with time, the simulation complexity should only depend on this quantity instantaneously. We develop quantum simulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 Dominic W. Berry , Andrew M. Childs , Yuan Su , Xin Wang , Nathan Wiebe

Analog quantum simulation is widely considered a step on the path to fault tolerant quantum computation. If based on current noisy hardware, the accuracy of an analog simulator will degrade after just a few time steps, especially when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Nathan K. Lysne , Kevin W. Kuper , Pablo M. Poggi , Ivan H. Deutsch , Poul S. Jessen

Many optimally scaling quantum simulation algorithms employ controlled time evolution of the Hamiltonian, which is typically the major bottleneck for their efficient implementation. This work establishes a compression protocol for encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Erenay Karacan

The task of estimating the ground state of Hamiltonians is an important problem in physics with numerous applications ranging from solid-state physics to combinatorial optimization. We provide a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-28 Kishor Bharti , Tobias Haug

Phase kickback is a fundamental primitive that is used in many quantum algorithms, such as quantum phase estimation. Here we observe that by using information about the controlled unitary, we can replace the controlled unitary with an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Mirko Amico

The problem of finding the ground state energy of a Hamiltonian using a quantum computer is currently solved using either the quantum phase estimation (QPE) or variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithms. For precision $\epsilon$, QPE…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-16 Daochen Wang , Oscar Higgott , Stephen Brierley

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…

The algorithmic error of digital quantum simulations is usually explored in terms of the spectral norm distance between the actual and ideal evolution operators. In practice, this worst-case error analysis may be unnecessarily pessimistic.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Qi Zhao , You Zhou , Alexander F. Shaw , Tongyang Li , Andrew M. Childs

In this work we demonstrate the use of adapted classical phase retrieval algorithms to perform control-free quantum phase estimation. We eliminate the costly controlled time evolution and Hadamard test commonly required to access the…

We study the simultaneous estimation of multiple phases as a discretised model for the imaging of a phase object. We identify quantum probe states that provide an enhancement compared to the best quantum scheme for the estimation of each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Peter C. Humphreys , Marco Barbieri , Animesh Datta , Ian A. Walmsley

An effective Hamiltonian describing interaction between generic "fast" and a "slow" systems is obtained in the strong interaction limit. The result is applied for studying the effect of quantum phase transition as a bifurcation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Isabel Sainz , Andrei B. Klimov , Luis Roa

Obtaining the free energies of condensed phase chemical reactions remains computationally prohibitive for high-level quantum mechanical methods. We introduce a hierarchical machine learning framework that bridges this gap by distilling…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Chenghan Li , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Estimating the eigenvalues of a unitary transformation U by standard phase estimation requires the implementation of controlled-U-gates which are not available if U is only given as a black box. We show that a simple trick allows to measure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dominik Janzing , Thomas Beth

Quantum phase estimation algorithm has been successfully adapted as a sub frame of many other algorithms applied to a wide variety of applications in different fields. However, the requirement of a good approximate eigenvector given as an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-15 Anmer Daskin

Recently, feedback-based quantum algorithms have been introduced to calculate the ground states of Hamiltonians, inspired by quantum Lyapunov control theory. This paper aims to generalize these algorithms to the problem of calculating an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Salahuddin Abdul Rahman , Özkan Karabacak , Rafal Wisniewski

Unwanted interaction between a quantum system and its fluctuating environment leads to decoherence and is the primary obstacle to establishing a scalable quantum information processing architecture. Strategies such as environmental and…

Quantum signal processing (QSP) is a powerful quantum algorithm to exactly implement matrix polynomials on quantum computers. Asymptotic analysis of quantum algorithms based on QSP has shown that asymptotically optimal results can in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Yulong Dong , Xiang Meng , K. Birgitta Whaley , Lin Lin