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By considering (non-relativistic) quantum mechanics as it is done in practice in particular in condensed-matter physics, it is argued that a deterministic, unitary time evolution within a chosen Hilbert space always has a limited scope,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Barbara Drossel

Nielsen's geometric approach to quantum circuit complexity provides a Riemannian framework for quantifying the cost of implementing unitary (closed--system) dynamics. For open dynamics, however, the reduced evolution is described by quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Alberto Acevedo , Antonio Falcó

The Fokker-Planck equation models rare events across sciences, but its high-dimensional nature challenges classical computers. Quantum algorithms for such non-unitary dynamics often suffer from exponential {decay in} success probability. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Tyler Kharazi , Ahmad M. Alkadri , Kranthi K. Mandadapu , K. Birgitta Whaley

Hamiltonian simulation is a central task in quantum computing, with wide-ranging applications in quantum chemistry, condensed matter physics, and combinatorial optimization. A fundamental challenge lies in approximating the unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Molena Nguyen , Naihuan Jing

Realizing non-unitary transformations on unitary-gate based quantum devices is critically important for simulating a variety of physical problems including open quantum systems and subnormalized quantum states. We present a dilation based…

This work aims to construct an efficient and highly accurate numerical method to address the time singularity at $t=0$ involved in a class of time-fractional parabolic integro-partial differential equations in one and two dimensions. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Sudarshan Santra , Ratikanta Behera

We present a local framework for investigating non-unitary evolution groups pertinent to effective field theories in general semi-classical spacetimes. Our approach is based on a rigorous local stability analysis of the algebra of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-31 Ka Hei Choi , Stefan Hofmann , Marc Schneider

Generalized moment problems optimize functional expectation over a class of distributions with generalized moment constraints, i.e., the function in the moment can be any measurable function. These problems have recently attracted growing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Jiayi Guo , Simai He , Bo Jiang , Zhen Wang

We construct a Hamiltonian whose dynamics simulate the dynamics of every other Hamiltonian up to exponentially long times in the system size. The Hamiltonian is time-independent, local, one-dimensional, and translation invariant. As a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-26 Thomas C. Bohdanowicz , Fernando G. S. L. Brandão

Nonlinear stochastic differential equations (NSDEs) are a pillar of mathematical modeling for scientific and engineering applications. Accurate and efficient simulation of large-scale NSDEs is prohibitive on classical computers due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Xiangyu Li , Ahmet Burak Catli , Ho Kiat Lim , Matthew Pocrnic , Dong An , Jin-Peng Liu , Nathan Wiebe

We introduce a hybrid oscillator-qubit formulation of linear combination of Hamiltonian simulation (LCHS) for solving linear ordinary differential equations. Instead of representing the quadrature rule with a discrete-variable (DV) ancilla…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Elin Ranjan Das , Muqing Zheng , Rishab Dutta , Ang Li , Timothy Stavenger , Yuan Liu

The nature of randomness and complexity growth in systems governed by unitary dynamics is a fundamental question in quantum many-body physics. This problem has motivated the study of models such as local random circuits and their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Laura Cui , Thomas Schuster , Liang Mao , Hsin-Yuan Huang , Fernando Brandao

Motivated by the contemporary advances in quantum implementation of non-unitary operations, we propose a new dilation method based on the biorthogonal representation of the non-unitary operator, mapping it to an isomorphic unitary matrix in…

A proposal is made for a mathematically unambiguous treatment of evolution in the presence of closed timelike curves. In constrast to other proposals for handling the naively nonunitary evolution that is often present in such situations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 Arlen Anderson

The most widely used approach for simulating the dynamics of time-dependent Hamiltonians via quantum computation depends on the quantum-classical hybrid variational quantum time evolution algorithm, in which ordinary differential equations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Minchen Qiao , Zi-Ming Li , Yu-xi Liu

We present substantially generalized and improved quantum algorithms over prior work for inhomogeneous linear and nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODE). Specifically, we show how the norm of the matrix exponential characterizes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Hari Krovi

An incomplete quantum measurement can induce non-trivial dynamics between degenerate subspaces, a closed sequence of such projections produces a non-abelian holonomy. We show how to induce unitary evolution on an initial subspace from such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-08 Daniel Kuan Li Oi

In this paper, we explore the embedding of nonlinear dynamical systems into linear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) via the Carleman linearization method. Under dissipative conditions, numerous previous works have established rigorous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-03 Hsuan-Cheng Wu , Jingyao Wang , Xiantao Li

The metaplectic transform (MT), a generalization of the Fourier transform sometimes called the linear canonical transform, is a tool used ubiquitously in modern optics, for example, when calculating the transformations of light beams in…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-10 N. A. Lopez , I. Y. Dodin

The dilation method is a practical way to experimentally simulate non-Hermitian, especially $\cal PT$-symmetric quantum systems. However, the time-dependent dilation problem cannot be explicitly solved in general. In this paper, we present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-20 Minyi Huang , Ray-Kuang Lee , Qing-hai Wang , Guo-Qiang Zhang , Junde Wu