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We study the problem of simulating the time evolution of a lattice Hamiltonian, where the qubits are laid out on a lattice and the Hamiltonian only includes geometrically local interactions (i.e., a qubit may only interact with qubits in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-24 Jeongwan Haah , Matthew B. Hastings , Robin Kothari , Guang Hao Low

Optimal control is a valuable tool for quantum simulation, allowing for the optimized preparation, manipulation, and measurement of quantum states. Through the optimization of a time-dependent control parameter, target states can be…

Simulating the unitary dynamics of a quantum system is a fundamental problem of quantum mechanics, in which quantum computers are believed to have significant advantage over their classical counterparts. One prominent such instance is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 John M. Martyn , Yuan Liu , Zachary E. Chin , Isaac L. Chuang

Simulating vibrational dynamics is essential for understanding molecular structure, unlocking useful applications such as vibrational spectroscopy for high-fidelity chemical detection. Quantum algorithms for vibrational dynamics are…

Implementing the time evolution under a desired target Hamiltonian is critical for various applications in quantum science. Due to the exponential increase in the number of parameters with system size and experimental imperfections, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Pascal Baßler , Markus Heinrich , Martin Kliesch

We propose a new variational quantum algorithm, which we refer to as TIMES-ADAPT, that prepares time-evolved states in a low-energy or symmetric subspace of a time-independent Hamiltonian on a quantum computer. Using a specially trained…

By exploiting the link between time-independent Hamiltonians and thermalisation, heuristic predictions on the performance of continuous-time quantum walks for MAX-CUT are made. The resulting predictions depend on the number of triangles in…

Simulation of open quantum systems is an area of active research in quantum algorithms. In this work, we revisit the connection between Markovian open-system dynamics and averages of Hamiltonian real-time evolutions, which we refer to as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Minbo Gao , Zhengfeng Ji , Chenghua Liu

The utility of effective model spaces in quantum simulations of non-relativistic quantum many-body systems is explored in the context of the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model of interacting fermions. We introduce an iterative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Caroline E. P. Robin , Martin J. Savage

The accuracy of quantum dynamics simulation is usually measured by the error of the unitary evolution operator in the operator norm, which in turn depends on certain norm of the Hamiltonian. For unbounded operators, after suitable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Dong An , Di Fang , Lin Lin

Simulating nonequilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems is one of the most promising applications of quantum computers. However, a faithful digital quantum simulation of the Hamiltonian evolution is very challenging in the present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Tomoya Hayata , Kazuhiro Seki , Seiji Yunoki

It has been argued that it is incompatible to maintain unitary time-evolution for time-dependent non-Hermitian Hamiltonians when the metric operator is explicitly time-dependent. We demonstrate here that the time-dependent Dyson equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Andreas Fring , Miled H. Y. Moussa

We provide an analytic solution to the problem of system-bath dynamics under the effect of high-frequency driving that has applications in a large class of settings, such as driven-dissipative many-body systems. Our method relies on…

We present a general framework for finding the time-optimal evolution and the optimal Hamiltonian for a quantum system with a given set of initial and final states. Our formulation is based on the variational principle and is analogous to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Carlini , Akio Hosoya , Tatsuhiko Koike , Yosuke Okudaira

Simulating physical systems has been an important application of classical and quantum computers. In this article we present an efficient classical algorithm for simulating time-dependent quantum mechanical Hamiltonians over constant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-30 Reyhaneh Aghaei Saem , Ali Hamed Moosavian

Non-Hermitian quantum dynamics lie in an intermediate regime between unitary Hamiltonian dynamics and trace-preserving non-unitary open quantum system dynamics. Given differences in the noise tolerance of unitary and non-unitary dynamics,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-17 Weihua Xie , Michael Kolodrubetz , Vadim Oganesyan

Quantum simulation has the potential to investigate gauge theories in strongly-interacting regimes, which are up to now inaccessible through conventional numerical techniques. Here, we take a first step in this direction by implementing a…

How to understand the order of Floquet stationary states in the presence of external bath coupling and their statistical mechanics is challenging; the answers are important for preparations and control of those Floquet states. Here, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-08 Dong E. Liu

We present a quantum computational framework using Hamiltonian Truncation (HT) for simulating real-time scattering processes in $(1+1)$-dimensional scalar $\phi^4$ theory. Unlike traditional lattice discretisation methods, HT approximates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 James Ingoldby , Michael Spannowsky , Timur Sypchenko , Simon Williams , Matthew Wingate

We propose an iterative algorithm to simulate the dynamics generated by any $n$-qubit Hamiltonian. The simulation entails decomposing the unitary time evolution operator $U$ (unitary) into a product of different time-step unitaries. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-09 Ashok Ajoy , Rama Koteswara Rao , Anil Kumar , Pranaw Rungta