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To ensure a long-term quantum computational advantage, the quantum hardware should be upgraded to withstand the competition of continuously improved classical algorithms and hardwares. Here, we demonstrate a superconducting quantum…

Today, people are looking forward to get an awesome computational power. This kind of desire can be answered by quantum computing. By adopting quantum mechanics theory, it can generate a very fast computation result. As known, quantum…

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Large quantum computers promise to solve some critical problems not solvable otherwise. However, modern quantum technologies suffer various imperfections such as control errors and qubit decoherence, inhibiting their potential utility. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-19 Andrii Maksymov , Jason Nguyen , Yunseong Nam , Igor Markov

We demonstrate the feasibility of quantum computing for large-scale, realistic chemical systems through the development of a new interface using a quantum circuit simulator and CP2K, a highly efficient first-principles calculation software.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Tomoya Shiota , Klaas Gunst , Toshio Mori , Toru Shiozaki , Wataru Mizukami

Exact simulations of quantum circuits (QCs) are currently limited to $\sim$50 qubits because the memory and computational cost required to store the QC wave function scale exponentially with qubit number. Therefore, developing efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Marco Bernardi

Simulating quantum circuits with classical computers requires resources growing exponentially in terms of system size. Real quantum computer with noise, however, may be simulated polynomially with various methods considering different noise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Song Cheng , Chenfeng Cao , Chao Zhang , Yongxiang Liu , Shi-Yao Hou , Pengxiang Xu , Bei Zeng

Simulating quantum circuits using classical computers lets us analyse the inner workings of quantum algorithms. The most complete type of simulation, strong simulation, is believed to be generally inefficient. Nevertheless, several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-25 T. H. Johnson , J. D. Biamonte , S. R. Clark , D. Jaksch

Simulating the stochastic evolution of real quantities on a digital computer requires a trade-off between the precision to which these quantities are approximated, and the memory required to store them. The statistical accuracy of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-16 Andrew J. P. Garner , Qing Liu , Jayne Thompson , Vlatko Vedral , Mile Gu

An enduring challenge in computer science is reducing the runtime required to solve computational problems. Quantum computing has attracted significant attention due to its potential to deliver asymptotically faster solutions to certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Mischa P. Woods

While real quantum devices have been increasingly used to conduct research focused on achieving quantum advantage or quantum utility in recent years, executing deep quantum circuits or performing quantum machine learning with large-scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Yoshiaki Kawase

Quantum computers progress toward outperforming classical supercomputers, but quantum errors remain their primary obstacle. The key to overcoming errors on near-term devices has emerged through the field of quantum error mitigation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Haoran Liao , Derek S. Wang , Iskandar Sitdikov , Ciro Salcedo , Alireza Seif , Zlatko K. Minev

We briefly review what a quantum computer is, what it promises to do for us, and why it is so hard to build one. Among the first applications anticipated to bear fruit is quantum simulation of quantum systems. While most quantum computation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-06 Vivien M. Kendon , Kae Nemoto , William J. Munro

Ionic pseudopotentials are widely used in classical simulations of materials to model the effective potential due to the nucleus and the core electrons. Modeling fewer electrons explicitly results in a reduction in the number of plane waves…

Classical simulation of quantum circuits is crucial for evaluating and validating the design of new quantum algorithms. However, the number of quantum state amplitudes increases exponentially with the number of qubits, leading to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-16 Xin-Chuan Wu , Sheng Di , Franck Cappello , Hal Finkel , Yuri Alexeev , Frederic T. Chong

Utility-scale quantum programs contain operations on the order of $>10^{15}$ which must be prepared and piped from a classical co-processor to the control unit of the quantum device. The latency of this process significantly increases with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Ioana Moflic , Alan Robertson , Simon J. Devitt , Alexandru Paler

Quantum mechanical problems are among the hardest to simulate and, in some cases, remain intractable even for the most powerful computers. Quantum computing has emerged as a new technological platform to address such challenges, with rapid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Alexander Miessen

Quantum computers have the potential of solving certain problems exponentially faster than classical computers. Recently, Harrow, Hassidim and Lloyd proposed a quantum algorithm for solving linear systems of equations: given an $N\times{N}$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-19 Jian Pan , Yudong Cao , Xiwei Yao , Zhaokai Li , Chenyong Ju , Xinhua Peng , Sabre Kais , Jiangfeng Du

Using the tensor product representation in the density matrix renormalization group, we show that a quantum circuit of Grover's algorithm, which has one-qubit unitary gates, generalized Toffoli gates, and projective measurements, can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kawaguchi , K. Shimizu , Y. Tokura , N. Imoto

We develop Monte Carlo methods for sampling random states and corresponding bit strings in qubit systems. To this end, we derive exact probability density functions that yield the Porter-Thomas distribution in the limit of large systems. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Andreas Raab

A digital quantum simulator is an envisioned quantum device that can be pro- grammed to efficiently simulate any other local system. We demonstrate and investigate the digital approach to quantum simulation in a system of trapped ions.…