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The Fermi-Hubbard model, a fundamental framework for studying strongly correlated phenomena could significantly benefit from quantum simulations when exploring non-trivial settings. However, simulating this problem requires twice as many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-05 Arian Vezvaee , Nathan Earnest-Noble , Khadijeh Najafi

We show how to absorb fermionic quantum simulation's expensive fermion-to-qubit mapping overhead into the overhead already incurred by surface-code-based fault-tolerant quantum computing. The key idea is to process information in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-10 Andrew J. Landahl , Benjamin C. A. Morrison

Quantum simulation of fermionic systems is a promising application of quantum computers, but in order to program them, we need to map fermionic states and operators to qubit states and quantum gates. While quantum processors may be built as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-05 Mark Steudtner , Stephanie Wehner

Quantum bits based on Majorana zero modes are expected to be robust against certain noise types, and hence provide a quantum computing platform that is superior to conventional qubits. This robustness is not complete though: imperfections…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Péter Boross , András Pályi

Quantum tomography is an important tool for the characterisation of quantum operations. In this paper, we present a framework of quantum tomography in fermionic systems. Compared with qubit systems, fermions obey the superselection rule,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Gang Zhang , Mingxia Huo , Ying Li

Chiral superconductors have the ability to host topologically protected Majorana zero modes which have been proposed as future qubits for topological quantum computing. The recently introduced magnet--superconductor hybrid (MSH) systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Eric Mascot , Sagen Cocklin , Stephan Rachel , Dirk K. Morr

Performing large-scale, accurate quantum simulations of many-fermion systems is a central challenge in quantum science, with applications in chemistry, materials, and high-energy physics. Despite significant progress, realizing generic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Nishad Maskara , Marcin Kalinowski , Daniel Gonzalez-Cuadra , Mikhail D. Lukin

Majorana zero modes are localized quasiparticles that obey non-Abelian exchange statistics. Braiding Majorana zero modes forms the basis of topologically protected quantum operations which could in principle significantly reduce qubit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Hao Zhang , Dong E. Liu , Michael Wimmer , Leo P. Kouwenhoven

Near-term quantum simulators are mostly based on qubit-based architectures. However, their imperfect nature significantly limits their practical application. The situation is even worse for simulating fermionic systems, which underlie most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Qingyu Li , Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay , Abolfazl Bayat

We consider the realization of universal quantum computation through braiding of Majorana fermions supplemented by unprotected preparation of noisy ancillae. It has been shown by Bravyi [Phys. Rev. A 73, 042313 (2006)] that under the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Fernando de Melo , Piotr Ćwikliński , Barbara M. Terhal

We summarize the key ingredients required for universal topological quantum computation using Majorana zero modes in networks of topological superconductor nanowires. Particular emphasis is placed on the use of both sparse and dense logical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Philipp Frey , Themba Hodge , Eric Mascot , Stephan Rachel

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 to efficiently simulate the dynamics of nanoscale NMR systems. In this work we demonstrate that a noisy intermediate-scale quantum computer can be used to simulate and predict nanoscale NMR resonances.…

Interactions between particles are usually a resource for quantum computing, making quantum many-body systems intractable by any known classical algorithm. In contrast, noise is typically considered as being inimical to quantum many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-29 Oles Shtanko , Abhinav Deshpande , Paul S. Julienne , Alexey V. Gorshkov

While general quantum many-body systems require exponential resources to be simulated on a classical computer, systems of non-interacting fermions can be simulated exactly using polynomially scaling resources. Such systems may be of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-18 Norbert Schuch , Bela Bauer

The prospects for realizing a topological quantum computer have brightened since the apparent detection of Majorana fermions at the ends of semiconducting nanowires. These Majorana zero-modes persist in the presence of the strong disorder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Sonika Johri , Rahul Nandkishore

After a recent series of rapid and exciting developments, the long search for the Majorana fermion - the elusive quantum entity at the border between particles and antiparticles - has produced the first positive experimental results, but is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-14 Tudor D. Stanescu , Sumanta Tewari

In order to increase the coherence time of topological quantum memories in systems with Majorana zero modes, it has recently been proposed to encode the logical qubit states in non-local Majorana operators which are immune to localized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 François Konschelle , Fabian Hassler

Thermal properties of quantum fields at finite temperature are crucial to understanding strongly interacting matter and recent development in quantum computing has provided an alternative and promising avenue of study. In this work, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-23 Wenyang Qian , Bin Wu

Dissipative quantum algorithms for state preparation in many-body systems are increasingly recognised as promising candidates for achieving large quantum advantages in application-relevant tasks. Recent advances in algorithmic,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Štěpán Šmíd , Richard Meister , Mario Berta , Roberto Bondesan