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Imaginary-time evolution is fundamental for analyzing quantum many-body systems, yet classical simulation requires exponentially growing resources in both system size and evolution time. While quantum approaches reduce the system-size…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Lei Zhang , Jizhe Lai , Xian Wu , Xin Wang

We develop an analog classical simulation algorithm of noiseless quantum dynamics. By formulating the Schr\"{o}dinger equation into a linear system of real-valued ordinary differential equations (ODEs), the probability amplitudes of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Ka-Wa Yip

The computational cost of exact methods for quantum simulation using classical computers grows exponentially with system size. As a consequence, these techniques can only be applied to small systems. By contrast, we demonstrate that quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-17 Ivan Kassal , Stephen P. Jordan , Peter J. Love , Masoud Mohseni , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Simulating the dynamics of complex quantum systems is a central application of quantum devices. Here, we propose leveraging the power of measurements to simulate short-time quantum dynamics of physically prepared quantum states in classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Paul K. Faehrmann , Jens Eisert , Maria Kieferova , Richard Kueng

We present a super-polynomial improvement in the precision scaling of quantum simulations for coupled classical-quantum systems in this paper. Such systems are found, for example, in molecular dynamics simulations within the…

We construct classical algorithms computing an approximation of the ground state energy of an arbitrary $k$-local Hamiltonian acting on $n$ qubits. We first consider the setting where a good ``guiding state'' is available, which is the main…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 François Le Gall

Many-body open quantum systems, described by Lindbladian master equations, are a rich class of physical models that display complex equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium phenomena which remain to be understood. In this paper, we theoretically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Vikram Kashyap , Georgios Styliaris , Sara Mouradian , Juan Ignacio Cirac , Rahul Trivedi

The Krylov subspace method is a standard approach to approximate quantum evolution, allowing to treat systems with large Hilbert spaces. Although its application is general, and suitable for many-body systems, estimation of the committed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-22 Julian Ruffinelli , Emiliano Fortes , Martín Larocca , Diego A. Wisniacki

Evolutions of local Hamiltonians in short times are expected to remain local and thus limited. In this paper, we validate this intuition by proving some limitations on short-time evolutions of local time-dependent Hamiltonians. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Ali Hamed Moosavian , Seyed Sajad Kahani , Salman Beigi

We present a quantum algorithm for simulating the classical dynamics of $2^n$ coupled oscillators (e.g., $2^n$ masses coupled by springs). Our approach leverages a mapping between the Schr\"odinger equation and Newton's equation for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-08 Ryan Babbush , Dominic W. Berry , Robin Kothari , Rolando D. Somma , Nathan Wiebe

We generalize the classical shadow tomography scheme to a broad class of finite-depth or finite-time local unitary ensembles, known as locally scrambled quantum dynamics, where the unitary ensemble is invariant under local basis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Hong-Ye Hu , Soonwon Choi , Yi-Zhuang You

Long ranged electrostatic interactions are time consuming to calculate in molecular dynamics and Monte-Carlo simulations. We introduce an algorithmic framework for simulating charged particles which modifies the dynamics so as to allow…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-07 A. C. Maggs , V. Rossetto

Analog quantum simulation is emerging as a powerful tool for uncovering classically unreachable physics such as many-body real-time dynamics. A complete quantification of uncertainties is necessary in order to make precise predictions using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Nikita A. Zemlevskiy , Henry F. Froland , Stephan Caspar

Algorithmic approach is based on the assumption that any quantum evolution of many particle system can be simulated on a classical computer with the polynomial time and memory cost. Algorithms play the central role here but not the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri Ozhigov

Quantum simulation is a foundational application for quantum computers, projected to offer insights into complex quantum systems beyond the reach of classical computation. However, with the exception of Trotter-based methods, which suffer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Amir Kalev , Itay Hen

We obtain sufficient conditions for the efficient simulation of a continuous variable quantum algorithm or process on a classical computer. The resulting theorem is an extension of the Gottesman-Knill theorem to continuous variable quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen D. Bartlett , Barry C. Sanders , Samuel L. Braunstein , Kae Nemoto

Simulating time evolution of generic quantum many-body systems using classical numerical approaches has an exponentially growing cost either with evolution time or with the system size. In this work, we present a polynomially scaling hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-18 Nikita Astrakhantsev , Sheng-Hsuan Lin , Frank Pollmann , Adam Smith

We propose a hybrid approach to simulate quantum many body dynamics by combining Trotter based quantum algorithm with classical dynamic mode decomposition. The interest often lies in estimating observables rather than explicitly obtaining…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Niladri Gomes , Jia Yin , Siyuan Niu , Chao Yang , Wibe Albert de Jong

We demonstrate a post-quench dynamics simulation of a Heisenberg model on present-day IBM quantum hardware that extends beyond the coherence time of the device. This is achieved using a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm that propagates a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Noah F. Berthusen , Thaís V. Trevisan , Thomas Iadecola , Peter P. Orth

Quantum algorithms for simulating electronic ground states are slower than popular classical mean-field algorithms such as Hartree-Fock and density functional theory, but offer higher accuracy. Accordingly, quantum computers have been…