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Quantum computing can efficiently simulate Hamiltonian dynamics of many-body quantum physics, a task that is generally intractable with classical computers. The hardness lies at the ubiquitous anti-commutative relations of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Qi Zhao , Xiao Yuan

Many promising quantum applications depend on the efficient quantum simulation of an exponentially large sparse Hamiltonian, a task known as sparse Hamiltonian simulation, which is fundamentally important in quantum computation. Although…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Jiaqi Leng , Joseph Li , Yuxiang Peng , Xiaodi Wu

We present a comparative study of the permutation matrix representation (PMR) method for Hamiltonian simulation alongside other leading quantum algorithms. Our analysis focuses on resource costs for simulating both time-independent and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Hriday Sabharwal , Itay Hen

In this paper, we introduce a novel and general framework for the variational quantum simulation of Lindblad equations. Building on the close relationship between the unraveled Lindblad dynamics, stochastic Magnus integrators, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Jia-Cheng Huang , Hao-En Li , Yi-Cheng Wang , Guang-Ze Zhang , Jun Li , Han-Shi Hu

Quantum optimal control theory is becoming increasingly crucial as quantum devices become more precise, but the need to quickly optimize these systems classically remains a significant bottleneck in their operation. Here we present a new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 Mogens Dalgaard , Felix Motzoi

The time evolution of a closed quantum system is connected to its Hamiltonian through Schroedinger's equation. The ability to estimate the Hamiltonian is critical to our understanding of quantum systems, and allows optimization of control.…

We study the problem of simulating the time evolution of a lattice Hamiltonian, where the qubits are laid out on a lattice and the Hamiltonian only includes geometrically local interactions (i.e., a qubit may only interact with qubits in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-24 Jeongwan Haah , Matthew B. Hastings , Robin Kothari , Guang Hao Low

Quantum dynamics simulations (QDSs) are one of the most highly anticipated applications of quantum computing. Quantum circuit depth for implementing Hamiltonian simulation algorithms is commonly time dependent so that long time dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Linyun Wan , Jie Liu , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang

Explicit formulas expressing the solution to non-autonomous differential equations are of great importance in many application domains such as control theory or numerical operator splitting. In particular, intrinsic formulas allowing to…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Karine Beauchard , Jérémy Le Borgne , Frédéric Marbach

We present a computationally efficient approach to solve the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equations in real-time using higher-order finite-element spatial discretization, applicable to both pseudopotential and all-electron calculations. To this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Bikash Kanungo , Vikram Gavini

Recently, there has been growing interest in simulating time-dependent Hamiltonians using quantum algorithms, driven by diverse applications, such as quantum adiabatic computing. While techniques for simulating time-independent Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 Yu Cao , Shi Jin , Nana Liu

We introduce a matrix product operator (MPO) encoding of the Magnus expansion and the Dyson series for one-dimensional quantum lattice models with time-dependent Hamiltonians. The MPO construction can be made accurate up to arbitrary order…

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

We use a Magnus approximation at the level of the equations of motion for a harmonic system with a time-dependent frequency, to find an expansion for its in-out effective action, and a unitary expansion for the Bogoliubov transformation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 C. D. Fosco , F. C. Lombardo , F. D. Mazzitelli

We present the problem of approximating the time-evolution operator $e^{-i\hat{H}t}$ to error $\epsilon$, where the Hamiltonian $\hat{H}=(\langle G|\otimes\hat{\mathcal{I}})\hat{U}(|G\rangle\otimes\hat{\mathcal{I}})$ is the projection of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Guang Hao Low , Isaac L. Chuang

We use complexity theory to rigorously investigate the difficulty of classically simulating evolution under many-body localized (MBL) Hamiltonians. Using the defining feature that MBL systems have a complete set of quasilocal integrals of…

This report is concerned with the efficiency of numerical methods for simulating quantum spin systems, with the aim to implement an improved method for simulation of a time-dependent Hamiltonian that displays chirped pulses at a high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Danny Goodacre

Quantum computers are expected to help us to achieve accurate simulation of the dynamics of many-body quantum systems. However, the limitations of current NISQ devices prevents us from realising this goal today. Recently an algorithm for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-17 Jonathan Wei Zhong Lau , Kishor Bharti , Tobias Haug , Leong Chuan Kwek

Conventional methods of quantum simulation involve trade-offs that limit their applicability to specific contexts where their use is optimal. In particular, the interaction picture simulation has been found to provide substantial asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Abhishek Rajput , Alessandro Roggero , Nathan Wiebe

We present a systematic method for dealing with time dependent quantum dynamics, based on the quantum brachistochrone and matrix mechanics. We derive the explicit time dependence of the Hamiltonian operator for a number of constrained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-29 Peter G. Morrison