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Quantum field theory provides the framework for the most fundamental physical theories to be confirmed experimentally and has enabled predictions of unprecedented precision. However, calculations of physical observables often require great…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-04 Stephen P. Jordan , Keith S. M. Lee , John Preskill

The Fokker-Planck equation models rare events across sciences, but its high-dimensional nature challenges classical computers. Quantum algorithms for such non-unitary dynamics often suffer from exponential {decay in} success probability. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Tyler Kharazi , Ahmad M. Alkadri , Kranthi K. Mandadapu , K. Birgitta Whaley

Linear equations play a pivotal role in many areas of science and engineering, making efficient solutions to linear systems highly desirable. The development of quantum algorithms for solving linear systems has been a significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 Nhat A. Nghiem

Predicting observables in equilibrium states is a central yet notoriously hard question in quantum many-body systems. In the physically relevant thermodynamic limit, certain mathematical formulations of this task have even been shown to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi , Samuel O. Scalet

We present a quantum algorithm that additively approximates the value of a tensor network to a certain scale. When combined with existing results, this provides a complete problem for quantum computation. The result is a simple new way of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-09 Itai Arad , Zeph Landau

We propose the variational quantum singular value decomposition based on encoding the elements of the considered { $N\times N$} matrix into the state of a quantum system of appropriate dimension. This method doesn't use the expansion of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Alexander I. Zenchuk , Wentao Qi , Junde Wu

We present a time-dependent quantum algorithm for nuclear inelastic scattering in the time-dependent basis function on qubits approach. This algorithm aims to quantum simulate a subset of the nuclear inelastic scattering problems that are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-28 Weijie Du , James P. Vary , Xingbo Zhao , Wei Zuo

Quantum computers are designed to outperform standard computers by running quantum algorithms. Areas in which quantum algorithms can be applied include cryptography, search and optimisation, simulation of quantum systems, and solving large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 Ashley Montanaro

Digital quantum computers provide a computational framework for solving the Schr\"{o}dinger equation for a variety of many-particle systems. Quantum computing algorithms for the quantum simulation of these systems have recently witnessed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-21 Mario Motta , Julia Rice

Numerical calculus algorithms which estimate derivatives and integrals from data series acquired either via measurements or by sampling functions are essential in scientific computing. To date, a few quantum algorithms have been developed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Jordan Cioni , Fabio Semperlotti

We describe a new polynomial time quantum algorithm that uses the quantum fast fourier transform to find eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a Hamiltonian operator, and that can be applied in cases (commonly found in ab initio physics and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 Daniel S. Abrams , Seth Lloyd

Variational algorithms have received significant attention in recent years due to their potential to solve practical problems using noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. A fundamental step of these algorithms is the evaluation of…

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

Entanglement is one of the fundamental properties of a quantum state and is a crucial differentiator between classical and quantum computation. There are many ways to define entanglement and its measure, depending on the problem or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Andrii Semenov , Niall Murphy , Simone Patscheider , Alessandra Bernardi , Elena Blokhina

Nonlinear spectroscopy is a cornerstone of quantum science, providing unique access to multi-point correlations, quantum coherence, and couplings that are invisible to linear methods. However, classical simulation of these phenomena is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Long Xiong , Xiaoyang Wang , Xiaoxia Cai , Xiao Yuan

We present a technique for enhancing the estimation of quantum state properties by incorporating approximate prior knowledge about the quantum state of interest. This method involves performing randomized measurements on a quantum processor…

An efficient numerical method is developed using the matrix product formalism for computing the properties at finite energy densities in one-dimensional (1D) many-body localized (MBL) systems. Arguing that any efficient (possibly quantum)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-08-20 Yichen Huang

The calculation time for the energy of atoms and molecules scales exponentially with system size on a classical computer but polynomially using quantum algorithms. We demonstrate that such algorithms can be applied to problems of chemical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alán Aspuru-Guzik , Anthony D. Dutoi , Peter J. Love , Martin Head-Gordon

Classical algorithms for predicting the equilibrium geometry of strongly correlated molecules require expensive wave function methods that become impractical already for few-atom systems. In this work, we introduce a variational quantum…

Time symmetry in quantum mechanics, where the current quantum state is determined jointly by both the past and the future, offers a more comprehensive description of physical phenomena. This symmetry facilitates both forward and backward…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Shijie Wei , Jingwei Wen , Xiaogang Li , Peijie Chang , Bozhi Wang , Franco Nori , Guilu Long