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Simulating quantum dynamics is one of the most important applications of quantum computers. Traditional approaches for quantum simulation involve preparing the full evolved state of the system and then measuring some physical quantity.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Rolando D. Somma , Robbie King , Robin Kothari , Thomas O'Brien , Ryan Babbush

We propose a distinct approach to solving linear and nonlinear differential equations (DEs) on quantum computers by encoding the problem into ground states of effective Hamiltonian operators. Our algorithm relies on constructing such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Hsin-Yu Wu , Annie E. Paine , Evan Philip , Antonio A. Gentile , Oleksandr Kyriienko

Solving linear ordinary differential equations (ODE) is one of the most promising applications for quantum computers to demonstrate exponential advantages. The challenge of designing a quantum ODE algorithm is how to embed non-unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Zhong-Xia Shang , Naixu Guo , Dong An , Qi Zhao

A novel quantum algorithm for solving the Boltzmann-Maxwell equations of the 6D collisionless plasma is proposed. The equation describes the kinetic behavior of plasma particles in electromagnetic fields and is known for the classical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-12 Hayato Higuchi , Juan William Pedersen , Akimasa Yoshikawa

Making use of an universal quantum network or QCPU proposed by me [6], some special quantum networks for simulating some quantum systems are given out. Specially, it is obtained that the quantum network for the time evolution operator which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 An Min Wang

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) represent a promising approach to utilizing current quantum computing infrastructures. VQAs are based on a parameterized quantum circuit optimized in a closed loop via a classical algorithm. This hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 David Fitzek , Robert S. Jonsson , Werner Dobrautz , Christian Schäfer

In this paper we present the first steps for obtaining a discrete Quantum Mechanics making use of the Umbral Calculus. The idea is to discretize the continuous Schroedinger equation substituting the continuous derivatives by discrete ones…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-15 E. Lopez-Sendino , J. Negro , M. A. del Olmo , E. Salgado

Quantum computers can be used to simulate nonlinear non-Hamiltonian classical dynamics on phase space by using the generalized Koopman-von Neumann formulation of classical mechanics. The Koopman-von Neumann formulation implies that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-27 Ilon Joseph

The dynamics of the expanding universe is analyzed in terms of the quantum geometrodynamical model. It is shown that the equations of quantum theory in the form of the eigenvalues equation similar to the stationary Schr\"{o}dinger equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-22 V. E. Kuzmichev , V. V. Kuzmichev

A numerical method for solving Schrodinger's equation based upon a Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff (BCH) expansion of the time evolution operator is presented herein. The technique manifestly preserves wavefunction norm, and it can be applied to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Cho , Karl Berggren

Recent experimental results on slow light heighten interest in nonlinear Maxwell theories. We obtain Galilei covariant equations for electromagnetism by allowing special nonlinearities in the constitutive equations only, keeping Maxwell's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Gerald A. Goldin , Vladimir Shtelen

A particle confined to an impassable box is a paradigmatic and exactly solvable one-dimensional quantum system modeled by an infinite square well potential. Here we explore some of its infinitely many generalizations to two dimensions,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-02-06 Elliott G. Holliday , John F. Lindner , William L. Ditto

With the rapid progress in quantum hardware, there has been an increased interest in new quantum algorithms to describe complex many-body systems searching for the still-elusive goal of 'useful quantum advantage'. Surprisingly, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Kade Head-Marsden , Stefan Krastanov , David A. Mazziotti , Prineha Narang

Quantum algorithms offer an exponential advantage with respect to the number of dependent variables for solving certain nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs). These algorithms typically begin by transforming the original…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Judd Katz , Gopikrishnan Muraleedharan , Abhijeet Alase

An efficient parallelization approach to simulate optical properties of ensembles of quantum emitters in realistic electromagnetic environments is considered. It relies on balancing computing load of utilized processors and is built into…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Maxim Sukharev

Utilization of a quantum system whose time-development is described by the nonlinear Schrodinger equation in the transformation of qubits would make it possible to construct quantum algorithms which would be useful in a large class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Cemal Yalabik

This report discusses two new ideas for using perturbation methods to solve the time-independent Schr\"odinger equation. The first concept begins with rewriting the perturbation equations in a form that is closely related to matrix…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-25 Gerald I. Kerley

In quantum mechanics, the time evolution of particles is given by the Schr\"odinger equation. It is valid in a nonrelativistic regime where the interactions with the particle can be modelled by a potential and quantised fields are not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Martin Plávala , Stefan Nimmrichter , Matthias Kleinmann

Quantum simulation has emerged as a key application of quantum computing, with significant progress made in algorithms for simulating both closed and open quantum systems. The simulation of open quantum systems, particularly those governed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Evan Borras , Milad Marvian

Linear response theory and Green's functions provide a universal framework for understanding dynamical correlations in strongly correlated open quantum systems. While the theoretical foundation for non-Hermitian linear response has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Jeongbin Jo