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As we begin to reach the limits of classical computing, quantum computing has emerged as a technology that has captured the imagination of the scientific world. While for many years, the ability to execute quantum algorithms was only a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 Bela Bauer , Sergey Bravyi , Mario Motta , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

We present a framework for effectively simulating the execution of quantum circuits originally designed to demonstrate quantum supremacy using accessible high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure. Building on prior CPU-only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Bob Wold , Venkateswaran Kasirajan

Here we describe an approach for simulating electronic structure on quantum computers with significantly lower asymptotic complexity than prior work. The approach uses a real-space first-quantised representation of the molecular Hamiltonian…

In a recent milestone experiment, Google's processor Sycamore heralded the era of "quantum supremacy" by sampling from the output of (pseudo-)random circuits. We show that such random circuits provide tailor-made building blocks for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-09 Jonas Richter , Arijeet Pal

Atomistic simulations based on the first-principles of quantum mechanics are reaching unprecedented length scales. This progress is due to the growth in computational power allied with the development of new methodologies that allow the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-19 Mariana Rossi

Classical stochastic processes can be generated by quantum simulators instead of the more standard classical ones, such as hidden Markov models. One reason for using quantum simulators is that they generally require less memory than their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-19 C. Aghamohammadi , J. R. Mahoney , J. P. Crutchfield

Quantum simulators are a promising technology on the spectrum of quantum devices from specialized quantum experiments to universal quantum computers. These quantum devices utilize entanglement and many-particle behaviors to explore and…

Numerous reports claim that quantum advantage, which should emerge as a direct consequence of the advent of quantum computers, will herald a new era of chemical research because it will enable scientists to perform the kinds of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 V. E. Elfving , B. W. Broer , M. Webber , J. Gavartin , M. D. Halls , K. P. Lorton , A. Bochevarov

Quantum hardware has the potential to efficiently solve computationally difficult problems in physics and chemistry to reap enormous practical rewards. Analogue quantum simulation accomplishes this by using the dynamics of a controlled…

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

Computational methods are the most effective tools we have besides scientific experiments to explore the properties of complex biological systems. Progress is slowing because digital silicon computers have reached their limits in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-03 Viv Kendon

An accurate description of strong correlation is quintessential for the exploration of emerging chemical phenomena. While near-term variational quantum algorithms provide a theoretically scalable framework for quantum chemical problems, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Arpan Choudhury , Sonaldeep Halder , Rahul Maitra , Debashree Ghosh

We review the recent quantum advantage experiments by IBM, D-Wave, and Google, focusing on cases where efficient classical simulations of the experiment were demonstrated or attempted using tensor network methods. We assess the strengths…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Augustine Kshetrimayum , Saeed S. Jahromi , Sukhbinder Singh , Román Orús

Owing to the computational complexity of electronic structure algorithms running on classical digital computers, the range of molecular systems amenable to simulation remains tightly circumscribed even after many decades of work. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Alexis Ralli , Michael I. Williams , Peter V. Coveney

Quantum simulators offer the potential to utilize the quantum nature of a physical system to study another physical system. In contrast to conventional simulation, which experiences an exponential increase in computational complexity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Xuliang Du , Yang Shen , Zipeng Wu , Bei Zeng , Sen Yang

Quantum algorithms require accurate representations of electronic states on a quantum device, yet the approximation of electronic wave functions for strongly correlated systems remains a profound theoretical challenge, with existing methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Dipanjali Halder , Dibyendu Mondal , Rahul Maitra

A quantum computing simulation provides the opportunity to explore the behaviors of quantum circuits, study the properties of quantum gates, and develop quantum computing algorithms. Simulating quantum circuits requires geometric time and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Lee A. Belfore

In light of major developments over the past decades in both quantum computing and simulations on classical hardware, it is a serious challenge to identify a real-world problem where quantum advantage is expected to appear. In quantum…

Simulating the quantum dynamics of molecules in the condensed phase represents a longstanding challenge in chemistry. Trapped-ion quantum systems may serve as a platform for the analog-quantum simulation of chemical dynamics that is beyond…

With the increasing size of quantum processors, sub-modules that constitute the processor hardware will become too large to accurately simulate on a classical computer. Therefore, one would soon have to fabricate and test each new design…