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Simulating quantum systems is one of the most promising avenues to harness the computational power of quantum computers. However, hardware errors in noisy near-term devices remain a major obstacle for applications. Ideas based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 W. Gong , Yaroslav Kharkov , Minh C. Tran , Przemyslaw Bienias , Alexey V. Gorshkov

We provide practical simulation methods for scalar field theories on a quantum computer that yield improved asymptotics as well as concrete gate estimates for the simulation and physical qubit estimates using the surface code. We achieve…

The quantum circuit model is the de-facto way of designing quantum algorithms. Yet any level of abstraction away from the underlying hardware incurs overhead. In the era of near-term, noisy, intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) hardware with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-27 Laura Clinton , Johannes Bausch , Toby Cubitt

Given the Hamiltonian, the evaluation of unitary operators has been at the heart of many quantum algorithms. Motivated by existing deterministic and random methods, we present a hybrid approach, where Hamiltonians with large amplitude are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-17 Shi Jin , Xiantao Li

The simulation of time evolution of large quantum systems is a classically challenging and in general intractable task, making it a promising application for quantum computation. A Trotter-Suzuki approximation yields an implementation…

Hamiltonian simulation is known to be one of the fundamental building blocks of a variety of quantum algorithms such as its most immediate application, that of simulating many-body systems to extract their physical properties. In this work,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Kouhei Nakaji , Mohsen Bagherimehrab , Alan Aspuru-Guzik

The simulation of molecules is a widely anticipated application of quantum computers. However, recent studies \cite{WBCH13a,HWBT14a} have cast a shadow on this hope by revealing that the complexity in gate count of such simulations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-05 David Poulin , M. B. Hastings , Dave Wecker , Nathan Wiebe , Andrew C. Doherty , Matthias Troyer

Quantum simulation is a popular application of quantum computing, but its practical realization is hindered by the technical limitations of current devices. In this work, we focus on preprocessing Hamiltonians before Trotterization to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Cédric Ho Thanh

Simulation of fermionic Hamiltonians with gate-based quantum computers requires the selection of an encoding from fermionic operators to quantum gates, the most widely used being the Jordan-Wigner transform. Many alternative encodings…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Michael Williams de la Bastida , Thomas M. Bickley , Peter V. Coveney

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

Hamiltonian simulation is a key quantum algorithm for modeling complex systems. To implement a Hamiltonian simulation, it is typically decomposed into a list of Pauli strings, each corresponds to an RZ rotation gate with many Clifford…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Yingheng Li , Xulong Tang , Paul Hovland , Ji Liu

Quantum simulation is a promising way toward practical quantum advantage, but noise in current quantum hardware poses a significant obstacle. We prove that not only the physical error but also the algorithmic error in a single Trotter step…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Jue Xu , Chu Zhao , Junyu Fan , Qi Zhao

Simulating quantum many-body dynamics is important both for fundamental understanding of physics and practical applications for quantum information processing. Therefore, classical simulation methods have been developed so far.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Yoshiaki Kawase , Keisuke Fujii

Simulating the time evolution of a physical system at quantum mechanical levels of detail -- known as Hamiltonian Simulation (HS) -- is an important and interesting problem across physics and chemistry. For this task, algorithms that run on…

Trotter product formulas constitute a cornerstone quantum Hamiltonian simulation technique. However, the efficient implementation of Hamiltonian evolution of nested commutators remains an under explored area. In this work, we construct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 F. Casas , A. Escorihuela-Tomàs , P. A. Moreno Casares

Qubitization is a modern approach to estimate Hamiltonian eigenvalues without simulating its time evolution. While in this way approximation errors are avoided, its resource and gate requirements are more extensive: qubitization requires…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Mark Steudtner , Stephanie Wehner

Unitary operations are the building blocks of quantum programs. Our task is to design effcient or optimal implementations of these unitary operations by employing the intrinsic physical resources of a given n-qubit system. The most common…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Zeier , Markus Grassl , Thomas Beth

Digital quantum simulation has broad applications in approximating unitary evolution of Hamiltonians. In practice, many simulation tasks for quantum systems focus on quantum states in the low-energy subspace instead of the entire Hilbert…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Weiyuan Gong , Shuo Zhou , Tongyang Li

We provide a quantum method for simulating Hamiltonian evolution with complexity polynomial in the logarithm of the inverse error. This is an exponential improvement over existing methods for Hamiltonian simulation. In addition, its scaling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-24 Dominic W. Berry , Richard Cleve , Rolando D. Somma

We significantly enhance the simulation accuracy of initial Trotter circuits for Hamiltonian simulation of quantum systems by integrating first-order Riemannian optimization with tensor network methods. Unlike previous approaches, our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Isabel Nha Minh Le , Shuo Sun , Christian B. Mendl