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Quantum computers can efficiently simulate the dynamics of quantum systems. In this paper, we study the cost of digitally simulating the dynamics of several physically relevant systems using the first-order product formula algorithm. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 Minh C. Tran , Su-Kuan Chu , Yuan Su , Andrew M. Childs , Alexey V. Gorshkov

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

The Lie-Trotter formula, together with its higher-order generalizations, provides a direct approach to decomposing the exponential of a sum of operators. Despite significant effort, the error scaling of such product formulas remains poorly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Andrew M. Childs , Yuan Su , Minh C. Tran , Nathan Wiebe , Shuchen Zhu

We consider the dynamics $t\mapsto\tau_t$ of an infinite quantum lattice system that is generated by a local interaction. If the interaction decomposes into a finite number of terms that are themselves local interactions, we show that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Sven Bachmann , Markus Lange

Hamiltonian simulation is one of the most promising applications of quantum computers, and the product formula is one of the most important methods for this purpose. Previous related work has mainly focused on the worst$-$case or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Langyu Li

Digital quantum simulation is a promising application of quantum computers, where quantum dynamics is simulated by using quantum gate operations. Many techniques for decomposing a time-evolution operator of quantum dynamics into simulatable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Takuya Hatomura

Quantum computers can efficiently simulate many-body systems. As a widely used Hamiltonian simulation tool, the Trotter-Suzuki scheme splits the evolution into the number of Trotter steps $N$ and approximates the evolution of each step by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Suguru Endo , Qi Zhao , Ying Li , Simon Benjamin , Xiao Yuan

Quantum computation with Trotter product formulae is straightforward and requires little overhead in terms of logical qubits. The choice of the orbital basis significantly affects circuit depth, with localised orbitals yielding lowest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Marvin Kronenberger , Mihael Erakovic , Markus Reiher

Fault-tolerant quantum computing is a promising tool for simulating molecules and materials, but frequently-considered applications require substantial resources, and the gap between hardware capabilities and requirements remains…

Understanding the impact of gate errors on quantum circuits is crucial to determining the potential applications of quantum computers, especially in the absence of large-scale error-corrected hardware. We put forward analytical arguments,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Eli Chertkov , Yi-Hsiang Chen , Michael Lubasch , David Hayes , Michael Foss-Feig

Product formulae are a popular class of digital quantum simulation algorithms due to their conceptual simplicity, low overhead, and performance which often exceeds theoretical expectations. Recently, Richardson extrapolation and polynomial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 James D. Watson , Jacob Watkins

We propose a hybrid approach to simulate quantum many body dynamics by combining Trotter based quantum algorithm with classical dynamic mode decomposition. The interest often lies in estimating observables rather than explicitly obtaining…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Niladri Gomes , Jia Yin , Siyuan Niu , Chao Yang , Wibe Albert de Jong

Trotter decomposition provides a simple approach to simulating open quantum systems by decomposing the Lindbladian into a sum of individual terms. While it is established that Trotter errors in Hamiltonian simulation depend on nested…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Xinzhao Wang , Shuo Zhou , Xiaoyang Wang , Yi-Cong Zheng , Shengyu Zhang , Tongyang Li

Efficiently simulating many-body quantum systems with Coulomb interactions is a fundamental question in quantum physics, quantum chemistry, and quantum computing, yet it presents unique challenges: the Hamiltonian is an unbounded operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Di Fang , Xiaoxu Wu

We derive higher-order error bounds with small prefactors for a general Trotter product formula, generalizing a result of Childs et al. [Phys. Rev. X 11, 011020 (2021)]. We then apply these bounds to the real-time quantum time evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Ansgar Schubert , Christian B. Mendl

Trotterization is one of the central approaches for simulating quantum many-body dynamics on quantum computers or tensor networks. In addition to its simple implementation, recent studies have revealed that its error and cost can be reduced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Kaoru Mizuta , Tomotaka Kuwahara

Quantum metrology allows for measuring properties of a quantum system at the optimal Heisenberg limit. However, when the relevant quantum states are prepared using digital Hamiltonian simulation, the accrued algorithmic errors will cause…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Gumaro Rendon , Jacob Watkins , Nathan Wiebe

As noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) processors increase in size and complexity, their use as general purpose quantum simulators will rely on algorithms based on the Trotter-Suzuki expansion. We run quantum simulations on a small,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Kevin W. Kuper , Jon P. Pajaud , Karthik Chinni , Pablo M. Poggi , Poul S. Jessen

Product formulas are one of the main approaches for quantum simulation of the Hamiltonian dynamics of a quantum system. Their implementation cost is computed based on error bounds which are often pessimistic, resulting in overestimating the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Kasra Hejazi , Modjtaba Shokrian Zini , Juan Miguel Arrazola

A bound on the error introduced by truncating a quantum addition is given. This bound shows that only a few controlled rotation gates will be necessary to get a reliable computation.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nathan W. Panike