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Iterative phase estimation has long been used in quantum computing to estimate Hamiltonian eigenvalues. This is done by applying many repetitions of the same fundamental simulation circuit to an initial state, and using statistical…

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We propose a general-purpose quantum algorithm for preparing ground states of quantum Hamiltonians from a given trial state. The algorithm is based on techniques recently developed in the context of solving the quantum linear systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 Yimin Ge , Jordi Tura , J. Ignacio Cirac

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…

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Quantum simulation is a cornerstone application of quantum computing, yet how fundamental quantum resources--entanglement and non-stabilizerness (``magic")--shape simulation fidelity remains an open question. In this work, we establish a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Xiangran Zhang , Jue Xu , Qi Zhao , You Zhou

Quantum computation is one of the most promising new paradigms for the simulation of physical systems composed of electrons and atomic nuclei, with applications in chemistry, solid-state physics, materials science, and molecular biology.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Jakob Günther , Alberto Baiardi , Markus Reiher , Matthias Christandl

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 propose a variational alternative to the Trotter-Suzuki decomposition that provides greater control over errors while preserving the unitary structure of time evolution. The variational parameters in our ansatz are derived from a global…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Ibsal Assi , Michael Vogl , Meenu Kumari , J. P. F. LeBlanc

We present several improvements to the standard Trotter-Suzuki based algorithms used in the simulation of quantum chemistry on a quantum computer. First, we modify how Jordan-Wigner transformations are implemented to reduce their cost from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-15 M. B. Hastings , D. Wecker , B. Bauer , M. Troyer

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

Trotterization is the most common and convenient approximation method for Hamiltonian simulations on digital quantum computers, but estimating its error accurately is computationally difficult for large quantum systems. Here, we develop a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda , Hideki Kono , Keisuke Fujii

Quantum dynamics can be simulated on a quantum computer by exponentiating elementary terms from the Hamiltonian in a sequential manner. However, such an implementation of Trotter steps has gate complexity depending on the total Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-15 Guang Hao Low , Yuan Su , Yu Tong , Minh C. Tran

Various Hamiltonian simulation algorithms have been proposed to efficiently study the dynamics of quantum systems on a quantum computer. The existing algorithms generally approximate the time evolution operators, which may need a deep…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Zi-Jian Zhang , Jinzhao Sun , Xiao Yuan , Man-Hong Yung

Quantum simulation has become a promising avenue of research that allows one to simulate and gain insight into the models of High Energy Physics whose experimental realizations are either complicated or inaccessible with current technology.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-01 S. Hasibul Hassan Chowdhury , Talal Ahmed Chowdhury , Salah Nasri , Omar Ibna Nazim , Shaikh Saad

Understanding the dynamics of quantum systems is crucial in many areas of physics, but simulating many-body systems presents significant challenges due to the large Hilbert space to navigate and the exponential growth of computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Sangjin Lee , Youngseok Kim , Seung-Woo Lee

When estimating the eigenvalues of a given observable, even fault-tolerant quantum computers will be subject to errors, namely algorithmic errors. These stem from approximations in the algorithms implementing the unitary passed to phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Adam Siegel , Kosuke Mitarai , Keisuke Fujii

We consider simulating an $n$-qubit Hamiltonian with nearest-neighbor interactions evolving for time $t$ on a quantum computer. We show that this simulation has gate complexity $(nt)^{1+o(1)}$ using product formulas, a straightforward…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-19 Andrew M. Childs , Yuan Su

Hamiltonian simulation is believed to be one of the first tasks where quantum computers can yield a quantum advantage. One of the most popular methods of Hamiltonian simulation is Trotterization, which makes use of the approximation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-09 Lea M. Trenkwalder , Eleanor Scerri , Thomas E. O'Brien , Vedran Dunjko

Hamiltonian simulation using product formulas is arguably the most straightforward and practical approach for algorithmic simulation of a quantum system's dynamics on a quantum computer. Here we present corrected product formulas (CPFs), a…

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…

Imaginary-time evolution plays an important role in algorithms for computing ground-state and thermal equilibrium properties of quantum systems, but can be challenging to simulate on classical computers. Many quantum algorithms for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Annie Ray , Esha Swaroop , Ningping Cao , Michael Vasmer , Anirban Chowdhury