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We present a new technique to obtain polynomial decay estimates for the matrix coefficients of unitary operators. Our approach, based on commutator methods, applies to nets of unitary operators, unitary representations of topological…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-09-02 S. Richard , R. Tiedra de Aldecoa

Unitary transformations are routinely modeled and implemented in the field of quantum optics. In contrast, nonunitary transformations that can involve loss and gain require a different approach. In this theory work, we present a universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-17 Nora Tischler , Carsten Rockstuhl , Karolina Słowik

Quantum speed-ups for dynamical simulation usually demand unitary time-evolution, whereas the large ODE/PDE systems encountered in realistic physical models are generically non-unitary. We present a universal moment-fulfilling dilation that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Xiantao Li

The dynamics of many-body quantum states in open systems is commonly numerically simulated by unraveling the density matrix into pure-state trajectories. In this work, we introduce a new unraveling strategy that can adaptively minimize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Ruben Daraban , Fabrizio Salas-Ramírez , Johannes Schachenmayer

A new model of quantum computing has recently been proposed which, in analogy with a classical lambda-calculus, exploits quantum processes which operate on other quantum processes. One such quantum meta-operator takes N unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-17 Timothy Rambo , Joseph Altepeter , Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano , Prem Kumar

Standard quantum mechanics predicts the non-conservation of state norms and probability when the fundamental requirement of the Hermiticity of the Hamiltonian is relaxed. Biorthogonal quantum mechanics, or the more general metric formalism,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Mario Gonzalez , Karin Sim , R. Chitra

The problem of unambiguously distinguishing among nonorthogonal but linearly independent quantum states can be solved by mapping the set of nonorthogonal quantum states onto a set of orthogonal ones, which can then be distinguished without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Yuqing Sun , Mark Hillery , Janos Bergou

Simulating general quantum processes that describe realistic interactions of quantum systems following a non-unitary evolution is challenging for conventional quantum computers that directly implement unitary gates. We analyze complexities…

We propose an iterative algorithm to simulate the dynamics generated by any $n$-qubit Hamiltonian. The simulation entails decomposing the unitary time evolution operator $U$ (unitary) into a product of different time-step unitaries. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-09 Ashok Ajoy , Rama Koteswara Rao , Anil Kumar , Pranaw Rungta

In quantum computation with continous-variable systems, quantum advantage can only be achieved if some non-Gaussian resource is available. Yet, non-Gaussian unitary evolutions and measurements suited for computation are challenging to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 Francesco Arzani , Nicolas Treps , Giulia Ferrini

Discrete circular convolution over $\mathbb{Z}/N\mathbb{Z}$ is a linear operator and can be implemented on quantum hardware within the linear-combination-of-unitaries (LCU) framework. In this work, we make this connection explicit through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Chen Yang , Kodai Kanemaru , Norio Yoshida , Sergey Gusarov , Hiroshi C. Watanabe

While quantum computers are naturally well-suited to implementing linear operations, it is less clear how to implement nonlinear operations on quantum computers. However, nonlinear subroutines may prove key to a range of applications of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-16 Zoë Holmes , Nolan Coble , Andrew T. Sornborger , Yiğit Subaşı

We adapt a recent advance in resource-frugal quantum signal processing - the Quantum Eigenvalue Transform with Unitary matrices (QET-U) - to explore non-unitary imaginary time evolution on early fault-tolerant quantum computers using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Hans Hon Sang Chan , David Muñoz Ramo , Nathan Fitzpatrick

We develop three new methods to implement any Linear Combination of Unitaries (LCU), a powerful quantum algorithmic tool with diverse applications. While the standard LCU procedure requires several ancilla qubits and sophisticated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 Shantanav Chakraborty

Variational quantum algorithms are promising applications of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers. These algorithms consist of a number of separate prepare-and-measure experiments that estimate terms in a Hamiltonian. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-25 Andrew Zhao , Andrew Tranter , William M. Kirby , Shu Fay Ung , Akimasa Miyake , Peter Love

We propose the implementation of Galileo group symmetry operations or, in general, linear coordinate transformations, in a quantum simulator. With an appropriate encoding, unitary gates applied to our quantum system give rise to Galilean…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 U. Alvarez-Rodriguez , J. Casanova , L. Lamata , E. Solano

Linear optical systems acting on photon number states produce many interesting evolutions, but cannot give all the allowed quantum operations on the input state. Using Toponogov's theorem from differential geometry, we propose an iterative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-17 Juan Carlos Garcia-Escartin , Vicent Gimeno , Julio José Moyano-Fernández

Representation of the quantum measurement with the help of non-orthogonal decomposition of unit is presented in the paper for the first time. Methods for solution of the quantum detection and measurement problems based on the suggested…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Boris A. Grishanin

Simulation of quantum matters is a significant application of quantum computers. In contrast to the unitary operation which can be realized naturally on a quantum computer, the implementation of nonunitary operation, widely used in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Tong Liu , Jin-Guo Liu , Heng Fan

We present general methods for simulating black-box Hamiltonians using quantum walks. These techniques have two main applications: simulating sparse Hamiltonians and implementing black-box unitary operations. In particular, we give the best…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-02 Dominic W. Berry , Andrew M. Childs