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Efficient simulation of quantum dynamics with time-dependent Hamiltonians is important not only for time-varying systems but also for time-independent Hamiltonians in the interaction picture. Such simulations are more challenging than their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Di Fang , Diyi Liu , Shuchen Zhu

We develop a fourth-order Magnus expansion based quantum algorithm for the simulation of many-body problems involving two-level quantum systems with time-dependent Hamiltonians, $\mathcal{H}(t)$. A major hurdle in the utilization of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Guannan Chen , Mohammadali Foroozandeh , Chris Budd , Pranav Singh

The Magnus expansion has long been a celebrated subject in numerical analysis, leading to the development of many useful classical integrators. More recently, it has been discovered to be a powerful tool for designing quantum algorithms for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Di Fang , Jiaqi Zhang

Compared with time independent Hamiltonians, the dynamics of generic quantum Hamiltonians $H(t)$ are complicated by the presence of time ordering in the evolution operator. In the context of digital quantum simulation, this difficulty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Jacob Watkins , Nathan Wiebe , Alessandro Roggero , Dean Lee

Hamiltonian simulation is arguably the most fundamental application of quantum computers. The Magnus operator is a popular method for time-dependent Hamiltonian simulation in computational mathematics, yet its usage requires the…

Motivated by various applications, unbounded Hamiltonian simulation has recently garnered great attention. Quantum Magnus algorithms, designed to achieve commutator scaling for time-dependent Hamiltonian simulation, have been found to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Yonah Borns-Weil , Di Fang , Jiaqi Zhang

We propose an algorithm for simulating the dynamics of a geometrically local Hamiltonian $A$ under a small geometrically local perturbation $\alpha B$. In certain regimes, the algorithm achieves the optimal scaling and outperforms the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-05 Kunal Sharma , Minh C. Tran

The evolution of a quantum system under time-dependent driving exhibits phenomena that are absent in its stationary counterpart. However, the high dimensionality and non-commutative nature of quantum dynamics make this a challenging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 R. F. dos Santos , S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans

In this paper, we present a proof-of-concept quantum algorithm for simulating time-dependent Hamiltonian evolution by reducing the problem to simulating a time-independent Hamiltonian in a larger space using a discrete clock Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Zecheng Li , Chunhao Wang

We propose a simple quantum algorithm for simulating highly oscillatory quantum dynamics, which does not require complicated quantum control logic for handling time-ordering operators. To our knowledge, this is the first quantum algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Dong An , Di Fang , Lin Lin

We present a low-space overhead simulation algorithm based on the truncated Dyson series for time-dependent quantum dynamics. This algorithm is applied to simulating time-independent Hamiltonians by transitioning to the interaction picture,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-07 Guang Hao Low , Nathan Wiebe

We present a quantum algorithm for the dynamical simulation of time-dependent Hamiltonians. Our method involves expanding the interaction-picture Hamiltonian as a sum of generalized permutations, which leads to an integral-free Dyson series…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Yi-Hsiang Chen , Amir Kalev , Itay Hen

The difficulty of simulating quantum dynamics depends on the norm of the Hamiltonian. When the Hamiltonian varies with time, the simulation complexity should only depend on this quantity instantaneously. We develop quantum simulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 Dominic W. Berry , Andrew M. Childs , Yuan Su , Xin Wang , Nathan Wiebe

A novel expansion -- which generalizes Magnus expansion -- of the evolution operator associated with a (in general, time-dependent) perturbed Hamiltonian is introduced. It is shown that it has a wide range of possible solutions that can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Aniello

We propose an efficient quantum algorithm for simulating the dynamics of general Hamiltonian systems. Our technique is based on a power series expansion of the time-evolution operator in its off-diagonal terms. The expansion decouples the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Amir Kalev , Itay Hen

The accuracy of quantum dynamics simulation is usually measured by the error of the unitary evolution operator in the operator norm, which in turn depends on certain norm of the Hamiltonian. For unbounded operators, after suitable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Dong An , Di Fang , Lin Lin

Magnus expansion (ME) provides a general way to expand the real-time propagator of a time-dependent Hamiltonian within the exponential such that the unitarity is satisfied at any order. We use this property and explicit integration of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Taner M. Ture , Seogjoo J. Jang

We construct a Hamiltonian whose dynamics simulate the dynamics of every other Hamiltonian up to exponentially long times in the system size. The Hamiltonian is time-independent, local, one-dimensional, and translation invariant. As a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-26 Thomas C. Bohdanowicz , Fernando G. S. L. Brandão

We propose a new method for simulating certain type of time-dependent Hamiltonian $H(t) = \sum_{i=1}^m \gamma_i(t) H_i$ where $\gamma_i(t)$ (and its higher order derivatives) is bounded, computable function of time $t$, and each $H_i$ is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 Nhat A. Nghiem

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
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