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This paper summarizes a research program that has been underway for a decade. The objective is to find a fast and accurate scheme for solving quantum problems which does not involve a Monte Carlo algorithm. We use an alternative strategy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Carl M. Bender , Lawrence R. Mead , Kimball A. Milton

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

We address complexity issues for linear differential equations in characteristic $p>0$: resolution and computation of the $p$-curvature. For these tasks, our main focus is on algorithms whose complexity behaves well with respect to $p$. We…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2009-01-27 Alin Bostan , Éric Schost

This paper explores the feasibility of quantum simulation for partial differential equations (PDEs) with physical boundary or interface conditions. Semi-discretisation of such problems does not necessarily yield Hamiltonian dynamics and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Shi Jin , Xiantao Li , Nana Liu , Yue Yu

Quantum phase estimation (QPE) and Lindbladian dynamics are both foundational in quantum information science and central to quantum algorithm design. In this work, we bridge these two concepts: certain simple Lindbladian processes can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Zhong-Xia Shang , Naixu Guo , Patrick Rebentrost , Alán Aspuru-Guzik , Tongyang Li , Qi Zhao

Quantum computers have long been expected to efficiently solve complex classical differential equations. Most digital, fault-tolerant approaches use Carleman linearization to map nonlinear systems to linear ones and then apply quantum…

We propose a numerical homogenization method for scalar linear partial differential equations with rough coefficients, that integrates classical coarse-scale solvers with quantum subroutines for fine-scale corrections. Inspired by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Loïc Balazi , Matthias Deiml , Daniel Peterseim

Quantum computing not only holds the potential to solve long-standing problems in quantum physics, but also to offer speed-ups across a broad spectrum of other fields. However, due to the noise and the limited scale of current quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Julien Gacon

A balanced description of both static and dynamic correlations in electronic systems with nearly degenerate low-lying states presents a challenge for multi-configurational methods on classical computers. We present here a quantum algorithm…

Computational modeling of cellular systems, where reactants are governed by biochemical equations and physical representations, requires extensive classical computing resources. These limitations significantly constrain the system size and…

Optimization problems are prevalent in various fields, and the gradient-based gradient descent algorithm is a widely adopted optimization method. However, in classical computing, computing the numerical gradient for a function with $d$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Ronghang Chen , Shi-Yao Hou , Cong Guo , Guanru Feng

A diffusion probabilistic model (DPM) is a generative model renowned for its ability to produce high-quality outputs in tasks such as image and audio generation. However, training DPMs on large, high-dimensional datasets such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Yunfei Wang , Ruoxi Jiang , Yingda Fan , Xiaowei Jia , Jens Eisert , Junyu Liu , Jin-Peng Liu

Quantum machine learning has the potential for broad industrial applications, and the development of quantum algorithms for improving the performance of neural networks is of particular interest given the central role they play in machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Jonathan Allcock , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Iordanis Kerenidis , Shengyu Zhang

Although quantum computing hardware has evolved significantly in recent years, spurred by increasing industrial and government interest, the size limitation of current generation quantum computers remains an obstacle when applying these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-20 Gideon Bass , Max Henderson , Joshua Heath , Joseph Dulny

Quantum computation is an attractive front for many problems that are intractable for computers today. One such problem is nonadiabatic quantum molecular dynamics, where quantized internal states coupling to parameterized modes result in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Joshua Courtney

Non-smooth optimization models play a fundamental role in various disciplines, including engineering, science, management, and finance. However, classical algorithms for solving such models often struggle with convergence speed,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Jiaqi Leng , Yufan Zheng , Zhiyuan Jia , Lei Fan , Chaoyue Zhao , Yuxiang Peng , Xiaodi Wu

It is known that the dual of the general adversary bound can be used to build quantum query algorithms with optimal complexity. Despite this result, not many quantum algorithms have been designed this way. This paper shows another example…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-16 Aleksandrs Belovs , Troy Lee

It is known that quantum computers yield a speed-up for certain discrete problems. Here we want to know whether quantum computers are useful for continuous problems. We study the computation of the integral of functions from the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-16 Erich Novak

Matrix powering is a fundamental computational primitive in linear algebra. It has widespread applications in scientific computing and engineering, and underlies the solution of time-homogeneous linear ordinary differential equations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Guillermo González , Rahul Trivedi , J. Ignacio Cirac

Quantum-inspired classical algorithms provide us with a new way to understand the computational power of quantum computers for practically-relevant problems, especially in machine learning. In the past several years, numerous efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Nikhil S. Mande , Changpeng Shao