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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

Compiling time-evolution operators of the form $U(t)=e^{-iHt}$ into hardware-native gate sequences is a central bottleneck for digital quantum simulation on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. Generic transpilation treats…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 F. S. Luiz , P. N. Ferreira , M. C. de Oliveira

We present an empirical analysis of the scaling of the minimal quantum circuit depth required for a variational quantum simulation (VQS) method to obtain a solution to the time evolution of a quantum system within a predefined error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Mario Ponce , Thomas Cope , Inés de Vega , Martin Leib

We introduce novel algorithms for the quantum simulation of molecular systems which are asymptotically more efficient than those based on the Trotter-Suzuki decomposition. We present the first application of a recently developed technique…

Solving the electronic structure problem via unitary evolution of the electronic Hamiltonian is one of the promising applications of digital quantum computers. One of the practical strategies to implement the unitary evolution is via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Luis A. Martínez-Martínez , Tzu-Ching Yen , Artur F. Izmaylov

Parameterized quantum circuits are a promising technology for achieving a quantum advantage. An important application is the variational simulation of time evolution of quantum systems. To make the most of quantum hardware, variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Marcello Benedetti , Mattia Fiorentini , Michael Lubasch

Quantum computing promises transformative impacts in simulating Hamiltonian dynamics, essential for studying physical systems inaccessible by classical computing. However, existing compilation techniques for Hamiltonian simulation, in…

We propose an iterative variational quantum algorithm to simulate the time evolution of arbitrary initial states within a given subspace. The algorithm compresses the Trotter circuit into a shorter-depth parameterized circuit, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Seung Park , Dongkeun Lee , Jeongho Bang , Hoon Ryu , Kyunghyun Baek

The imaginary-time evolution of quantum states is integral to various fields, ranging from natural sciences to classical optimization or machine learning. Since simulating quantum imaginary-time evolution generally requires storing an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Julien Gacon , Christa Zoufal , Giuseppe Carleo , Stefan Woerner

We have proposed new algorithms for the numerical integration of the equations of motion for classical spin systems. In close analogy to symplectic integrators for Hamiltonian equations of motion used in Molecular Dynamics these algorithms…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Krech , Alex Bunker , D. P. Landau

Unitary evolution under a time dependent Hamiltonian is a key component of simulation on quantum hardware. Synthesizing the corresponding quantum circuit is typically done by breaking the evolution into small time steps, also known as…

Hamiltonian simulation represents an important module in a large class of quantum algorithms and simulations such as quantum machine learning, quantum linear algebra methods, and modeling for physics, material science and chemistry. One of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Albert T. Schmitz , Nicolas P. D. Sawaya , Sonika Johri , A. Y. Matsuura

We present a quantum algorithm for the dynamical simulation of time-dependent Hamiltonians. Our method involves expanding the interaction-picture Hamiltonian as a sum of generalized permutations, which leads to an integral-free Dyson series…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Yi-Hsiang Chen , Amir Kalev , Itay Hen

Quantum simulation is a promising application of future quantum computers. Product formulas, or Trotterization, are the oldest and still remain an appealing method to simulate quantum systems. For an accurate product formula approximation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Chi-Fang , Chen , Fernando G. S. L. Brandão

Universal quantum simulation may provide insights into those many-body systems that cannot be described classically, and that cannot be efficiently simulated with current technology. The Trotter formula, which decomposes a desired unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 George C. Knee , William J. Munro

We propose an adaptive quantum algorithm to prepare accurate variational time evolved wave functions. The method is based on the projected Variational Quantum Dynamics (pVQD) algorithm, that performs a global optimization with linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 David Linteau , Stefano Barison , Netanel Lindner , Giuseppe Carleo

The effort to generate matrix exponentials and associated differentials, required to determine the time evolution of quantum systems, frequently constrains the evaluation of problems in quantum control theory, variational circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Michael Schilling , Francesco Preti , Matthias M. Müller , Tommaso Calarco , Felix Motzoi

Implementing time evolution operators on quantum circuits is important for quantum simulation. However, the standard way, Trotterization, requires a huge numbers of gates to achieve desirable accuracy. Here, we propose a local variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-13 Kaoru Mizuta , Yuya O. Nakagawa , Kosuke Mitarai , Keisuke Fujii

A novel class of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms based on the variational approach have recently emerged from separate proposals addressing, for example, quantum chemistry and combinatorial problems. These algorithms provide an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-09 Gian Giacomo Guerreschi , Mikhail Smelyanskiy

Digital quantum simulation is a promising application for quantum computers. Their free programmability provides the potential to simulate the unitary evolution of any many-body Hamiltonian with bounded spectrum by discretizing the time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Adrien Bolens , Markus Heyl