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Linear combination of unitaries (LCU for short) is one of the most important techniques in designing quantum algorithms. In this paper, we propose a new quantum algorithm in three different forms to achieve LCU. Different from previous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-17 Changpeng Shao

We investigate ancilla-free linear combination of unitaries (LCU) as a framework for approximating complex quantum circuits. This is particularly effective for quantum optimization algorithms, where candidate solutions can be evaluated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Almudena Carrera Vazquez , Daniel J. Egger , Stefan Woerner

The randomized linear combination of unitaries (LCU) method with many applications to early fault-tolerant quantum computing algorithms has been proposed. This quantum algorithm computes the same expectation values as the original, fully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Kaito Wada , Hiroyuki Harada , Yasunari Suzuki , Yuuki Tokunaga , Naoki Yamamoto , Suguru Endo

We introduce several probabilistic quantum algorithms that overcome the normal unitary restrictions in quantum machine learning by leveraging the Linear Combination of Unitaries (LCU) method. Among our investigations are quantum native…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 Jamie Heredge , Maxwell West , Lloyd Hollenberg , Martin Sevior

Randomisation is widely used in quantum algorithms to reduce the number of quantum gates and ancillary qubits required. A range of randomised algorithms, including eigenstate property estimation by spectral filters, Hamiltonian simulation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Jinzhao Sun , Pei Zeng

Black-box quantum state preparation is a fundamental primitive in quantum algorithms. Starting from Grover, a series of techniques have been devised to reduce the complexity. In this work, we propose to perform black-box state preparation…

The linear combination of unitaries (LCU) is a fundamental quantum algorithm primitive that embeds non-unitary operators via post-selection on an ancilla register. In standard LCU, only the $|0\dots0\rangle$ ancilla outcome is retained; the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Ammar Daskin

We consider different Linear Combination of Unitaries (LCU) decompositions for molecular electronic structure Hamiltonians. Using these LCU decompositions for Hamiltonian simulation on a quantum computer, the main figure of merit is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Ignacio Loaiza , Alireza Marefat Khah , Nathan Wiebe , Artur F. Izmaylov

The Linear Combination of Unitaries (LCU) method is a powerful scheme for the block encoding of operators but suffers from high overheads. In this work, we discuss the parallelisation of LCU and in particular the SELECT subroutine of LCU…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-22 Gregory Boyd

A highly anticipated use of quantum computers is the simulation of complex quantum systems including molecules and other many-body systems. One promising method involves directly applying a linear combination of unitaries (LCU) to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Richard Meister , Simon C. Benjamin , Earl T. Campbell

Trotter and linear-combination-of-unitary (LCU) are two popular Hamiltonian simulation methods. We propose Hamiltonian simulation algorithms using LCU to compensate Trotter error, which enjoy both of their advantages. By adding few gates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Pei Zeng , Jinzhao Sun , Liang Jiang , Qi Zhao

One limitation of the variational quantum eigensolver algorithm is the large number of measurement steps required to estimate different terms in the Hamiltonian of interest. Unitary partitioning reduces this overhead by transforming the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Alexis Ralli , Peter Love , Andrew Tranter , Peter Coveney

We present a novel framework for Linear Combination of Unitaries (LCU)-style decomposition tailored to structured sparse matrices, which frequently arise in the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs). While LCU is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Abeynaya Gnanasekaran , Amit Surana

The linear combination of unitaries (LCU) method has proven to scale better than existing product formulas in simulating long time Hamiltonian dynamics. However, given the number of multi-control gate operations in the standard…

Rational functions are exceptionally powerful tools in scientific computing, yet their abilities to advance quantum algorithms remain largely untapped. In this paper, we introduce effective implementations of rational transformations of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Yizhi Shen , Niel Van Buggenhout , Daan Camps , Katherine Klymko , Roel Van Beeumen

With the Quantum Singular Value Transformation (QSVT) emerging as a unifying framework for diverse quantum speedups, the efficient construction of block encodings -- their fundamental input model -- has become increasingly crucial. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Filippo Della Chiara , Martina Nibbi , Yizhi Shen , Roel Van Beeumen

We introduce Unitaria, a Python library that brings the simplicity of classical linear algebra toolkits such as NumPy and SciPy to the implementation of quantum algorithms based on block encodings, a general-purpose abstraction in which a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Matthias Deiml , Oliver Hüttenhofer , Ram Mosco , Jakob S. Kottmann , Daniel Peterseim

We study two different methods to prepare excited states on a quantum computer, a key initial step to study dynamics within linear response theory. The first method uses unitary evolution for a short time $T=\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{1-F})$ to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Alessandro Roggero , Chenyi Gu , Alessandro Baroni , Thomas Papenbrock

Herein, we introduce a strategy to decompose an arbitrary square matrix into a linear combination of non-unitaries (LCNU) where each non-unitary term is embedded into a unitary matrix. The result is a linear combination of unitaries (LCU)…

We introduce a scheme for linear optics quantum computation, that makes no use of teleported gates, and requires stable interferometry over only the coherence length of the photons. We achieve a much greater degree of efficiency and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel E. Browne , Terry Rudolph
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