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This study investigates enhancing option pricing by extending the Black-Scholes model to include stochastic volatility and interest rate variability within the Partial Differential Equation (PDE). The PDE is solved using the finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Nikhil Shivakumar Nayak

In this article, we propose a new numerical approach to high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) arising in the valuation of exotic derivative securities. The proposed method is extended from Reisinger and Wittum (2007) and…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2013-10-04 Christoph Reisinger , Rasmus Wissmann

Currency arbitrage leverages price discrepancies in currency exchange rates across different currency pairs to gain risk-free profits. It involves multiple trading, where short-lived price discrepancies require real-time, high-speed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Suman Kumar Roy , Rahul Rana , M Girish Chandra , Nishant Kumar , Manoj Nambiar

We discuss a Quantum Non-Demolition Measurement (QNDM) protocol to estimate the derivatives of a cost function with a quantum computer. %This is a key step for the implementation of variational quantum circuits. The cost function, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Paolo Solinas , Simone Caletti , Giovanni Minuto

In the framework of Black-Scholes-Merton model of financial derivatives, a path integral approach to option pricing is presented. A general formula to price European path dependent options on multidimensional assets is obtained and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-02 G. Bormetti , G. Montagna , N. Moreni , O. Nicrosini

This work introduces an end-to-end framework for multi-asset option pricing that combines market-consistent risk-neutral density recovery with quantum-accelerated numerical integration. We first calibrate arbitrage-free marginal…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-01-08 Julien Hok , Álvaro Leitao

We consider the problem of pricing discretely monitored Asian options over $T$ monitoring points where the underlying asset is modeled by a geometric Brownian motion. We provide two quantum algorithms with complexity poly-logarithmic in $T$…

Differential equations can be used to construct predictive models of a diverse set of real-world phenomena like heat transfer, predator-prey interactions, and missile tracking. In our work, we explore one particular application of…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2025-10-28 Brandon Kaplowitz , Siddharth G. Reddy

Partial differential equations frequently appear in the natural sciences and related disciplines. Solving them is often challenging, particularly in high dimensions, due to the "curse of dimensionality". In this work, we explore the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Lukas Mouton , Florentin Reiter , Ying Chen , Patrick Rebentrost

Portfolio construction has been a long-standing topic of research in finance. The computational complexity and the time taken both increase rapidly with the number of investments in the portfolio. It becomes difficult, even impossible for…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Queenie Sun , Nicholas Grablevsky , Huaizhang Deng , Pooya Azadi

We present an algorithm which efficiently estimates the intrinsic long-term value of a portfolio of assets on a quantum computer. The method relies on quantum amplitude estimation to estimate the mean of a novel implementation of the…

Motivated by recent progress in quantum hardware and algorithms researchers have developed quantum heuristics for optimization problems, aiming for advantages over classical methods. To date, quantum hardware is still error-prone and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Friedrich Wagner , Frauke Liers

In the last years, several quantum algorithms that try to address the problem of partial differential equation solving have been devised. On one side, "direct" quantum algorithms that aim at encoding the solution of the PDE by executing one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-15 Adrien Suau , Gabriel Staffelbach , Henri Calandra

Efficiently pricing multi-asset options is a challenging problem in quantitative finance. When the characteristic function is available, Fourier-based methods are competitive compared to alternative techniques because the integrand in the…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-01-17 Michael Samet , Christian Bayer , Chiheb Ben Hammouda , Antonis Papapantoleon , Raúl Tempone

Partial differential equation (PDE) models with multiple temporal/spatial scales are prevalent in several disciplines such as physics, engineering, and many others. These models are of great practical importance but notoriously difficult to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-17 Junpeng Hu , Shi Jin , Lei Zhang

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) that estimate values of widely used physical quantities such as the rank, quantum entropies, the Bures fidelity and the quantum Fisher information of mixed quantum states are developed. In addition,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-17 Kok Chuan Tan , Tyler Volkoff

Pricing interest-rate financial derivatives is a major problem in finance, in which it is crucial to accurately reproduce the time-evolution of interest rates. Several stochastic dynamics have been proposed in the literature to model either…

Classical simulation of real-space quantum dynamics is challenging due to the exponential scaling of computational cost with system dimensions. Quantum computer offers the potential to simulate quantum dynamics with polynomial complexity;…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Chee-Kong Lee , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang , Liang Shi

We present a detailed numerical study of an alternative approach, named Quantum Non-Demolition Measurement (QNDM), to efficiently estimate the gradients or the Hessians of a quantum observable. This is a key step and a resource-demanding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Giovanni Minuto , Dario Melegari , Simone Caletti , Paolo Solinas

While most work on the quantum simulation of chemistry has focused on computing energy surfaces, a similarly important application requiring subtly different algorithms is the computation of energy derivatives. Almost all molecular…