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The advent of near-term digital quantum computers could offer us an exciting opportunity to investigate quantum many-body phenomena beyond that of classical computing. To make the best use of the hardware available, it is paramount that we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Luke Causer , Felix Jung , Asimpunya Mitra , Frank Pollmann , Adam Gammon-Smith

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

The simulation of time evolution of large quantum systems is a classically challenging and in general intractable task, making it a promising application for quantum computation. A Trotter-Suzuki approximation yields an implementation…

The Hamiltonian approach can be used successfully to study the real-time evolution of a non-Abelian lattice gauge theory on the available noisy quantum computers. In this work, results from the real-time evolution of SU(2) pure gauge theory…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-10-24 Sarmed A Rahman , Randy Lewis , Emanuele Mendicelli , Sarah Powell

Quantum simulation on emerging quantum hardware is a topic of intense interest. While many studies focus on computing ground state properties or simulating unitary dynamics of closed systems, open quantum systems are an interesting target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-21 Hirsh Kamakari , Shi-Ning Sun , Mario Motta , Austin J. Minnich

Near term quantum computers suffer from a degree of decoherence which is prohibitive for high fidelity simulations with deep circuits. An economical use of circuit depth is therefore paramount. For digital quantum simulation of quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-21 Maurits S. J. Tepaske , Dominik Hahn , David J. Luitz

Measuring quantum observables by grouping terms that can be rotated to sums of only products of Pauli $\hat z$ operators (Ising form) is proven to be efficient in near term quantum computing algorithms. This approach requires extra unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Zachary Pierce Bansingh , Tzu-Ching Yen , Peter D. Johnson , Artur F. Izmaylov

The infinite time-evolving block decimation (iTEBD) algorithm [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 070201 (2007)] allows to simulate unitary evolution and to compute the ground state of one-dimensional quantum lattice systems in the thermodynamic limit.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Roman Orus , Guifre Vidal

Compiling time-evolution operators of the form $U(t)=e^{-iHt}$ into hardware-native gate sequences is a central bottleneck for digital quantum simulation on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. Generic transpilation treats…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 F. S. Luiz , P. N. Ferreira , M. C. de Oliveira

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…

Quantum state preparation plays a crucial role in several areas of quantum information science, in applications such as quantum simulation, quantum metrology and quantum computing. However, typically state preparation requires resources…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Tianqi Chen , Tim Byrnes

We study a variation of the Trotter-Suzuki decomposition, in which a Hamiltonian exponential is approximated by an ordered product of two-qubit operator exponentials such that the Trotter step size is enhanced for a small number of terms.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-10 Finn Lasse Buessen , Dvira Segal , Ilia Khait

We introduce a method to solve the MaxCut problem efficiently based on quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE). We employ a linear Ansatz for unitary updates and an initial state involving no entanglement, as well as an…

Quantum simulation has begun to penetrate the field of quantum chemistry in hopes of efficiently calculating ground state energies and approximating real-time evolution. With modern research highlighting nonadiabatic dynamics, tunably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Joshua M. Courtney , P. C. Stancil

As established in the seminal work by Berry et al.[1], expanding the time evolution operator using truncated Taylor series (up to some order $K$) makes a good candidate for simulating Hamiltonian dynamics. Here, we adapt the method but…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Michelle Wynne Sze , David Zsolt Manrique , David Muñoz Ramo , Nathan Fitzpatrick

The Suzuki-Trotter decomposition, which digitalizes quantum time evolution, provides a promising framework for simulating quantum dynamics on quantum hardware and exploring quantum advantage over classical computation. However, conventional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Bo Yang , Naoki Negishi

We extend the Pauli Propagation framework to simulate imaginary-time evolution. By deriving explicit update rules for the propagation of Pauli operators under imaginary-time evolution generated by Pauli strings, we introduce an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Rafael Gómez-Lurbe , Armando Pérez

We calculate the energy levels and corresponding eigenstates of an interacting scalar quantum field theory on a lattice using a continuous-variable version of the quantum imaginary time evolution algorithm. Only a single qumode is needed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Kübra Yeter-Aydeniz , Eleftherios Moschandreou , George Siopsis

Time evolution of an infinite 2D many body quantum lattice system can be described by the Suzuki-Trotter decomposition applied to the infinite projected entangled pair state (iPEPS). Each Trotter gate increases the bond dimension of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Jacek Dziarmaga

The imaginary-time evolution of quantum states is integral to various fields, ranging from natural sciences to classical optimization or machine learning. Since simulating quantum imaginary-time evolution generally requires storing an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Julien Gacon , Christa Zoufal , Giuseppe Carleo , Stefan Woerner