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Classical simulation of quantum circuits remains indispensable for algorithm development, hardware validation, and error analysis in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era. However, state-vector simulation faces exponential memory…

Quantum circuit simulation is crucial for the development of quantum algorithms, particularly given the high cost and noise limitations of physical quantum hardware. While full-state quantum circuit simulation is commonly employed for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Chuan-Chi Wang , Yan-Jie Wang , Chia-Heng Tu , Shih-Hao Hung

In the near future, there will likely be special-purpose quantum computers with 40-50 high-quality qubits. This paper lays general theoretical foundations for how to use such devices to demonstrate "quantum supremacy": that is, a clear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Scott Aaronson , Lijie Chen

Demonstrating quantum supremacy, a complexity-guaranteed quantum advantage against over the best classical algorithms by using less universal quantum devices, is an important near-term milestone for quantum information processing. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-13 Keisuke Fujii

Numerical simulation is an important method for verifying the quantum circuits used to simulate low-energy nuclear states. However, real-world applications of quantum computing for nuclear theory often generate deep quantum circuits that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Ang Li , Alessandro Baroni , Ionel Stetcu , Travis S. Humble

Current superconducting quantum devices impose strict connectivity constraints on quantum circuit execution, necessitating circuit transformation before executing quantum circuits on physical hardware. Numerous quantum circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Sanjiang Li , Xiangzhen Zhou , Yuan Feng

In this proof-of-concept paper we show that tensor product approach is efficient for control of large quantum systems, such as Heisenberg spin wires, which are essential for emerging quantum computing technologies. We compute optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Diego Quiñones Valles , Sergey Dolgov , Dmitry Savostyanov

Various algorithms have been developed to simulate quantum circuits on classical hardware. Among the most prominent are approaches based on \emph{stabilizer decompositions} and \emph{tensor network contraction}. In this work, we present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Julien Codsi , Tuomas Laakkonen

This tutorial guides a competent programmer through the crafting of a quantum circuit simulator from scratch, even for readers with almost no prior experience in quantum computing. Open source simulators for quantum circuits already exist,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Michael J. McGuffin , Jean-Marc Robert , Kazuki Ikeda

Transport through correlated nanoscale systems underpins the operation of quantum-dot and molecular-scale devices, yet accurate simulations of large open quantum systems remain computationally challenging as system size increases.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Maximilian Streitberger , Marko J. Rančić

We report an accurate and efficient classical simulation of a kicked Ising quantum system on the heavy-hexagon lattice. A simulation of this system was recently performed on a 127 qubit quantum processor using noise mitigation techniques to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-29 Joseph Tindall , Matt Fishman , Miles Stoudenmire , Dries Sels

With quantum computers of significant size now on the horizon, we should understand how to best exploit their initially limited abilities. To this end, we aim to identify a practical problem that is beyond the reach of current classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Andrew M. Childs , Dmitri Maslov , Yunseong Nam , Neil J. Ross , Yuan Su

Tensor networks are a popular and computationally efficient approach to simulate general quantum systems on classical computers and, in a broader sense, a framework for dealing with high-dimensional numerical problems. This paper presents a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Marcos Díez García , Antonio Márquez Romero

Early but promising results in quantum computing have been enabled by the concurrent development of quantum algorithms, devices, and materials. Classical simulation of quantum programs has enabled the design and analysis of algorithms and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Bo Fang , M. Yusuf Özkaya , Ang Li , Ümit V. Çatalyürek , Sriram Krishnamoorthy

Efficient simulation of quantum computers relies on understanding and exploiting the properties of quantum states. This is the case for methods such as tensor networks, based on entanglement, and the tableau formalism, which represents…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-25 Sergi Masot-Llima , Artur Garcia-Saez

Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms provide ways to use noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers for practical applications. Expanding the portfolio of such techniques, we propose a quantum circuit learning algorithm that can be used to…

Near-term quantum devices generally suffer from shallow circuit depth and hence limited expressivity due to noise and decoherence. To address this, we propose tensor-network-assisted parametrized quantum circuits, which concatenate a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-01 Junxiang Huang , Wenhao He , Yukun Zhang , Yusen Wu , Bujiao Wu , Xiao Yuan

Quantum computing hardware has grown sufficiently complex that it often can no longer be simulated by classical computers, but its computational power remains limited by errors. These errors corrupt the results of quantum algorithms, and it…

Fine-grained quantum supremacy is a study of proving (nearly) tight time lower bounds for classical simulations of quantum computing under "fine-grained complexity" assumptions. We show that under conjectures on Orthogonal Vectors (OV),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-11 Ryu Hayakawa , Tomoyuki Morimae , Suguru Tamaki

Noisy, intermediate-scale quantum computers come with intrinsic limitations in terms of the number of qubits (circuit "width") and decoherence time (circuit "depth") they can have. Here, for the first time, we demonstrate a recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Thomas Ayral , François-Marie Le Régent , Zain Saleem , Yuri Alexeev , Martin Suchara