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We present several improvements to the standard Trotter-Suzuki based algorithms used in the simulation of quantum chemistry on a quantum computer. First, we modify how Jordan-Wigner transformations are implemented to reduce their cost from…

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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

We present a novel, computationally efficient approach to accelerate quantum optimal control calculations of large multi-qubit systems used in a variety of quantum computing applications. By leveraging the intrinsic symmetry of finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 Xian Wang , Mahmut Sait Okyay , Anshuman Kumar , Bryan M. Wong

The integrating factor and exponential time differencing methods are implemented and tested for solving the time-dependent Kohn--Sham equations. Popular time propagation methods used in physics, as well as other robust numerical approaches,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Daniel Kidd , Cody Covington , Kalman Varga

In this work we propose an approach for implementing time-evolution of a quantum system using product formulas. The quantum algorithms we develop have provably better scaling (in terms of gate complexity and circuit depth) than a naive…

We establish formulae for the asymptotic growth (with respect to the scaling dimension) of the number of operators in effective field theory, or equivalently the number of $S$-matrix elements, in arbitrary spacetime dimensions and with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-19 Tom Melia , Sridip Pal

We propose a general method for optimization with semi-infinite constraints that involve a linear combination of functions, focusing on the case of the exponential function. Each function is lower and upper bounded on sub-intervals by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-13 Bogdan Dumitrescu , Bogdan C. Sicleru , Florin Avram

We give new algorithms based on the sum-of-squares method for tensor decomposition. Our results improve the best known running times from quasi-polynomial to polynomial for several problems, including decomposing random overcomplete…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Tengyu Ma , Jonathan Shi , David Steurer

We discuss the numerical solution of the Schr\"odinger equation with a time-dependent Hamilton operator using commutator-free time-propagators. These propagators are constructed as products of exponentials of simple weighted sums of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-02 A. Alvermann , H. Fehske

The quantum partition function at finite temperature requires computing the trace of the imaginary time propagator. For numerical and Monte Carlo calculations, the propagator is usually split into its kinetic and potential parts. A higher…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Siu A. Chin

In this article, we compare the methods implementing the real-time evolution operator generated by a unitary diagonal matrix where its entries obey a known underlying real function. When the size of the unitary diagonal matrix is small, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Xinchi Huang , Taichi Kosugi , Hirofumi Nishi , Yu-ichiro Matsushita

Extended formulations are an important tool in polyhedral combinatorics. Many combinatorial optimization problems require an exponential number of inequalities when modeled as a linear program in the natural space of variables. However, by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Christoph Buchheim

We compare exponential-type integrators for the numerical time-propagation of the equations of motion arising in the multi-configuration time-dependent Hartree-Fock method for the approximation of the high-dimensional multi-particle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Winfried Auzinger , Alexander Grosz , Harald Hofstätter , Othmar Koch

The manuscript presents a new technique for computing the exponential of skew-Hermitian operators. Principal advantages of the proposed method include: stability even for large time-steps, the possibility to parallelize in time over many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-24 T. S. Haut , T. Babb , P. G. Martinsson , B. A. Wingate

Regular chains and triangular decompositions are fundamental and well-developed tools for describing the complex solutions of polynomial systems. This paper proposes adaptations of these tools focusing on solutions of the real analogue:…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2010-05-17 Changbo Chen , James H. Davenport , John P. May , Marc Moreno Maza , Bican Xia , Rong Xiao

Trotter-Suzuki decompositions are frequently used in the quantum simulation of quantum chemistry. They transform the evolution operator into a form implementable on a quantum device, while incurring an error---the Trotter error. The Trotter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Andrew Tranter , Peter J. Love , Florian Mintert , Nathan Wiebe , Peter V. Coveney

Chau et al. [New J. Phys. 20, 073003 (2018)] presented a new and straight-forward derivation of a fourth-order approximation '$U_7$' of the time-evolution operator and hinted at its potential value as a symplectic integrator. $U_7$ is based…

Path-integral techniques are a powerful tool used in open quantum systems to provide an exact solution for the non-Markovian dynamics. However, the exponential scaling of the tensor size with quantum memory length of these techniques limits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 L. M. J. Hall , A. Gisdakis , E. A. Muljarov

The product formula, commonly known as Trotter decomposition, is a central tool for digital quantum simulation, whose performance depends critically on how the Hamiltonian is partitioned into tractable blocks. Standard decompositions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Naoki Negishi , Bo Yang

The extended L\"uroth's Theorem says that if the transcendence degree of $\KK(\mathsf{f}_1,\dots,\mathsf{f}_m)/\KK$ is 1 then there exists $f \in \KK(\underline{X})$ such that $\KK(\mathsf{f}_1,\dots,\mathsf{f}_m)$ is equal to $\KK(f)$. In…

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