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Quantum computing promises transformative impacts in simulating Hamiltonian dynamics, essential for studying physical systems inaccessible by classical computing. However, existing compilation techniques for Hamiltonian simulation, in…

Digital quantum simulators provide a diversified tool for solving the evolution of quantum systems with complicated Hamiltonians and hold great potential for a wide range of applications. Although much attention is paid to the unitary…

We describe a simple, efficient method for simulating Hamiltonian dynamics on a quantum computer by approximating the truncated Taylor series of the evolution operator. Our method can simulate the time evolution of a wide variety of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-06 Dominic W. Berry , Andrew M. Childs , Richard Cleve , Robin Kothari , Rolando D. Somma

A higher-order Suzuki-Trotter decomposition or Trotterization can be exploited to mitigate the Trotter error in digital quantum simulation. This work revisits the second-order symmetric Trotterization in terms of the Trotter error, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Yeonghun Lee

Hamiltonian simulation is a promising application for quantum computers to achieve a quantum advantage. We present classical algorithms based on tensor network methods to optimize quantum circuits for this task. We show that, compared to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-05 Conor Mc Keever , Michael Lubasch

A complex but important challenge in understanding quantum mechanical phenomena is the simulation of quantum many-body dynamics. Although quantum computers offer significant potential to accelerate these simulations, their practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Gian Gentinetta , Friederike Metz , Giuseppe Carleo

Multi-product formulas (MPF) are linear combinations of Trotter circuits offering high-quality simulation of Hamiltonian time evolution with fewer Trotter steps. Here we report two contributions aimed at making multi-product formulas more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-12 Sergiy Zhuk , Niall Robertson , Sergey Bravyi

Stochastic methods offer an effective way to suppress coherent errors in quantum simulation. In particular, the randomized compilation protocol may reduce circuit depth by randomly sampling Hamiltonian terms rather than following the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Yu-Xia Wu , Yun-Zhuo Fan , Dan-Bo Zhang

Understanding the dynamics of quantum systems is crucial in many areas of physics, but simulating many-body systems presents significant challenges due to the large Hilbert space to navigate and the exponential growth of computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Sangjin Lee , Youngseok Kim , Seung-Woo Lee

We simulate the time evolution of collective neutrino oscillations in two-flavor settings on a quantum computer. We explore the generalization of Trotter-Suzuki approximation to time-dependent Hamiltonian dynamics. The trotterization steps…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Pooja Siwach , Kaytlin Harrison , A. Baha Balantekin

Digital quantum simulation has broad applications in approximating unitary evolution of Hamiltonians. In practice, many simulation tasks for quantum systems focus on quantum states in the low-energy subspace instead of the entire Hilbert…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Weiyuan Gong , Shuo Zhou , Tongyang Li

Quantum simulation is one of the most promising scientific applications of quantum computers. Due to decoherence and noise in current devices, it is however challenging to perform digital quantum simulation in a regime that is intractable…

Hamiltonian simulation, i.e., simulating the real time evolution of a target quantum system, is a natural application of quantum computing. Trotter-Suzuki splitting methods can generate corresponding quantum circuits; however, a faithful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Ayse Kotil , Rahul Banerjee , Qunsheng Huang , Christian B. Mendl

Trotter product formulas constitute a cornerstone quantum Hamiltonian simulation technique. However, the efficient implementation of Hamiltonian evolution of nested commutators remains an under explored area. In this work, we construct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 F. Casas , A. Escorihuela-Tomàs , P. A. Moreno Casares

Understanding the impact of gate errors on quantum circuits is crucial to determining the potential applications of quantum computers, especially in the absence of large-scale error-corrected hardware. We put forward analytical arguments,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Eli Chertkov , Yi-Hsiang Chen , Michael Lubasch , David Hayes , Michael Foss-Feig

Recent work has deployed linear combinations of unitaries techniques to reduce the cost of fault-tolerant quantum simulations of correlated electron models. Here, we show that one can sometimes improve upon those results with optimized…

We provide three improvements to the product formula implementation of the ground state energy estimation algorithm via Trotter-Suzuki decomposition. These consist of smaller circuit templates for each Hamiltonian term, parallelization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Andre Kornell , Peter Selinger

Universal quantum simulation may provide insights into those many-body systems that cannot be described classically, and that cannot be efficiently simulated with current technology. The Trotter formula, which decomposes a desired unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 George C. Knee , William J. Munro

Digital quantum simulation of many-body dynamics relies on Trotterization to decompose the target time evolution into elementary quantum gates operating at a fixed equidistant time discretization. Recent advances have outlined protocols…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Hongzheng Zhao , Ao Chen , Shu-Wei Liu , Marin Bukov , Markus Heyl , Roderich Moessner

Simulation of quantum chemistry is expected to be a principal application of quantum computing. In quantum simulation, a complicated Hamiltonian describing the dynamics of a quantum system is decomposed into its constituent terms, where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Yingkai Ouyang , David R. White , Earl T. Campbell