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We describe methods to construct digital quantum simulation algorithms for quantum spin systems on a regular lattice with local interactions. In addition to tools such as the Trotter-Suzuki expansion and graph coloring, we also discuss the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Guido Burkard

Analog quantum simulators and digital quantum computers are two distinct paradigms driving near-term applications in modern quantum science, from probing many-body phenomena to identifying computational advantage over classical systems. A…

IBM quantum computers are used to simulate the dynamics of small systems of interacting quantum spins. For time-independent systems with fewer than three spins, we compute the exact time evolution at arbitrary times and measure spin…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-12-24 Jarrett L. Lancaster , D. Brysen Allen

We present efficient quantum algorithms for simulating time-dependent Hamiltonian evolution of general input states using an oracular model of a quantum computer. Our algorithms use either constant or adaptively chosen time steps and are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-03 Nathan Wiebe , Dominic W. Berry , Peter Hoyer , Barry C. Sanders

Simulating the quantum dynamics of molecules in the condensed phase represents a longstanding challenge in chemistry. Trapped-ion quantum systems may serve as a platform for the analog-quantum simulation of chemical dynamics that is beyond…

We present a suite of "holographic" quantum algorithms for efficient ground-state preparation and dynamical evolution of correlated spin-systems, which require far-fewer qubits than the number of spins being simulated. The algorithms…

Simulations of chemical dynamics are a powerful means for understanding chemistry. However, classical computers struggle to simulate many chemical processes, especially non-adiabatic ones, where the Born-Oppenheimer approximation breaks…

Classical simulation of quantum systems plays an important role in the study of many-body phenomena and in the benchmarking and verification of quantum technologies. Exact simulation is often limited to small systems because the dimension…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Dominik S. Wild , Sabina Drăgoi , Corbin McElhanney , Jonathan Wurtz , Sheng-Tao Wang

Stochastic processes play a fundamental role in physics, mathematics, engineering and finance. One potential application of quantum computation is to better approximate properties of stochastic processes. For example, quantum algorithms for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Adam Bouland , Aditi Dandapani , Anupam Prakash

Many interesting problems in physics, chemistry, and computer science are equivalent to problems of interacting spins. However, most of these problems require computational resources that are out of reach by classical computers. A promising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-07 Jingfu Zhang , Man-Hong Yung , Raymond Laflamme , Alán Aspuru-Guzik , Jonathan Baugh

This paper shows a novel way of simulating a Markov process by a quantum computer. The main purpose of the paper is to show a particular application of quantum computing in the field of stochastic processes analysis. Using a Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Petar Nikolov

Electron spin qubits in quantum dot devices are promising for scalable quantum computing. However, architectural support is currently hindered by the lack of realistic and performant simulation methods for real devices. Physics-based tools…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Shize Che , Junyu Zhou , Seong Woo Oh , Jonathan Hess , Noah Johnson , Mridul Pushp , Robert Spivey , Anthony Sigillito , Gushu Li

With quantum computers of significant size now on the horizon, we should understand how to best exploit their initially limited abilities. To this end, we aim to identify a practical problem that is beyond the reach of current classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Andrew M. Childs , Dmitri Maslov , Yunseong Nam , Neil J. Ross , Yuan Su

We present a holographic quantum simulation algorithm to variationally prepare thermal states of $d$-dimensional interacting quantum many-body systems, using only enough hardware qubits to represent a ($d$-1)-dimensional cross-section. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-17 Yuxuan Zhang , Shahin Jahanbani , Daoheng Niu , Reza Haghshenas , Andrew C. Potter

We present a quantum algorithm for simulating rovibrational Hamiltonians on fault-tolerant quantum computers. The method integrates exact curvilinear kinetic energy operators and general-form potential energy surfaces expressed in a hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Michał Szczepanik , Ákos Nagy , Emil Żak

Quantum signal processing provides an optimal procedure for simulating Hamiltonian evolution on a quantum computer using calls to a block encoding of the Hamiltonian. In many situations it is possible to control between forward and reverse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Dominic W. Berry , Danial Motlagh , Giacomo Pantaleoni , Nathan Wiebe

The controls enacting logical operations on quantum systems are described by time-dependent Hamiltonians that often include rapid oscillations. In order to accurately capture the resulting time dynamics in numerical simulations, a very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Ross Shillito , Jonathan A. Gross , Agustin Di Paolo , Élie Genois , Alexandre Blais

Practical challenges in simulating quantum systems on classical computers have been widely recognized in the quantum physics and quantum chemistry communities over the past century. Although many approximation methods have been introduced,…

Vortex interactions are commonly observed in atmospheric turbulence, plasma dynamics, and collective behaviors in biological systems. However, accurately simulating these complex interactions is highly challenging due to the need to capture…