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Quantum computers may achieve speedups over their classical counterparts for solving linear algebra problems. However, in some cases -- such as for low-rank matrices -- dequantized algorithms demonstrate that there cannot be an exponential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Ashley Montanaro , Changpeng Shao

A number of recent studies have proposed that linear representations are appropriate for solving nonlinear dynamical systems with quantum computers, which fundamentally act linearly on a wave function in a Hilbert space. Linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Yen Ting Lin , Robert B. Lowrie , Denis Aslangil , Yiğit Subaşı , Andrew T. Sornborger

A strong analog classical simulation of general quantum evolution is proposed, which serves as a novel scheme in quantum computation and simulation. The scheme employs the approach of geometric quantum mechanics and quantum informational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 Dong-Sheng Wang

Classical simulation of real-space quantum dynamics is challenging due to the exponential scaling of computational cost with system dimensions. Quantum computer offers the potential to simulate quantum dynamics with polynomial complexity;…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Chee-Kong Lee , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang , Liang Shi

We present an efficient, nearly optimal quantum algorithm for solving linear matrix differential equations, with applications to the simulation of open quantum systems and beyond. For unitary or dissipative dynamics, the algorithm computes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Sophia Simon , Dominic W. Berry , Rolando D. Somma

Finding the solution to linear ordinary differential equations of the form $\partial_t u(t) = -A(t)u(t)$ has been a promising theoretical avenue for \textit{asymptotic} quantum speedups. However, despite the improvements to existing quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Matthew Pocrnic , Peter D. Johnson , Amara Katabarwa , Nathan Wiebe

We establish improved complexity estimates of quantum algorithms for linear dissipative ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and show that the time dependence can be fast-forwarded to be sub-linear. Specifically, we show that a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Dong An , Akwum Onwunta , Gengzhi Yang

Recent experiments demonstrated quantum computational advantage in random circuit sampling and Gaussian boson sampling. However, it is unclear whether these experiments can lead to practical applications even after considerable research…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Chae-Yeun Park , Pablo A. M. Casares , Juan Miguel Arrazola , Joonsuk Huh

Quantum algorithms for simulating electronic ground states are slower than popular classical mean-field algorithms such as Hartree-Fock and density functional theory, but offer higher accuracy. Accordingly, quantum computers have been…

The Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations, which describes classical plasma physics, is extremely challenging to solve, even by numerical simulation on powerful computers. By linearizing and assuming a Maxwellian background distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-19 Alexander Engel , Graeme Smith , Scott E. Parker

We present a quantum algorithm for systems of (possibly inhomogeneous) linear ordinary differential equations with constant coefficients. The algorithm produces a quantum state that is proportional to the solution at a desired final time.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-07 Dominic W. Berry , Andrew M. Childs , Aaron Ostrander , Guoming Wang

Quantum computing employs controllable interactions to perform sequences of logical gates and entire algorithms on quantum registers. This paradigm has been widely explored, e.g., for simulating dynamics of manybody systems by decomposing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 S. Alipour , A. T. Rezakhani , Alireza Tavanfar , K. Mölmer , T. Ala-Nissila

We study the limitations and fast-forwarding of quantum algorithms for linear ordinary differential equation (ODE) systems with a particular focus on non-quantum dynamics, where the coefficient matrix in the ODE is not anti-Hermitian or the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Dong An , Jin-Peng Liu , Daochen Wang , Qi Zhao

We introduce a family of identities that express general linear non-unitary evolution operators as a linear combination of unitary evolution operators, each solving a Hamiltonian simulation problem. This formulation can exponentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Dong An , Andrew M. Childs , Lin Lin

Quantum computing promises exponential improvements in solving large systems of partial differential equations (PDE), which forms a bottleneck in high-resolution computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, in, among others, aerospace…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Vladyslav Bohun , Andrij Kuzmak , Maciej Koch-Janusz

Quantum process characterization is a fundamental task in quantum information processing, yet conventional methods, such as quantum process tomography, require prohibitive resources and lack scalability. Here, we introduce an efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Yusen Wu , Yukun Zhang , Chuan Wang , Xiao Yuan

We demonstrate the feasibility of quantum computing for large-scale, realistic chemical systems through the development of a new interface using a quantum circuit simulator and CP2K, a highly efficient first-principles calculation software.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Tomoya Shiota , Klaas Gunst , Toshio Mori , Toru Shiozaki , Wataru Mizukami

Important nonlinear dynamics, such as those found in plasma and fluid systems, are typically hard to simulate on classical computers. Thus, if fault-tolerant quantum computers could efficiently solve such nonlinear problems, it would be a…

We introduce an algorithm to compute Hamiltonian dynamics on digital quantum computers that requires only a finite circuit depth to reach an arbitrary precision, i.e. achieves zero discretization error with finite depth. This finite number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Etienne Granet , Henrik Dreyer

Simulation of realistic classical mechanical systems is of great importance to many areas of engineering such as robotics, dynamics of rotating machinery and control theory. In this work, we develop quantum algorithms to estimate quantities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Hari Krovi