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Many applications of practical interest rely on time evolution of Hamiltonians that are given by a sum of Pauli operators. Quantum circuits for exact time evolution of single Pauli operators are well known, and can be extended trivially to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Ewout van den Berg , Kristan Temme

A key task in quantum computation is the application of a sequence of gates implementing a specific unitary operation. However, the decomposition of an arbitrary unitary operation into simpler quantum gates is a nontrivial problem. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Swathi S. Hegde , K. R. Koteswara Rao , T. S. Mahesh

Stochastic processes are as ubiquitous throughout the quantitative sciences as they are notorious for being difficult to simulate and predict. In this letter we propose a unitary quantum simulator for discrete-time stochastic processes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-06 Felix C. Binder , Jayne Thompson , Mile Gu

We introduce a novel software-oriented model of quantum computation motivated by the practical constraints of near-term quantum hardware. In this model, gates are specified by constraints expressed in terms of Pauli observables, with each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 James R. Wootton , Merlin Incerti-Medici , Daniel Bultrini , Pierre Fromholz

The quantum simulation kernel is an important subroutine appearing as a very long gate sequence in many quantum programs. In this paper, we propose Paulihedral, a block-wise compiler framework that can deeply optimize this subroutine by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-09 Gushu Li , Anbang Wu , Yunong Shi , Ali Javadi-Abhari , Yufei Ding , Yuan Xie

Quantum processing unit (QPU) has to satisfy highly demanding quantity and quality requirements on its qubits to produce accurate results for problems at useful scales. Furthermore, classical simulations of quantum circuits generally do not…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Wei Tang , Margaret Martonosi

We propose and simulate a protocol to evolve a quantum particle forward in time such that its trajectory closely matches that of the particle's Newtonian counterpart. Using short bursts of Schr\"odinger time-evolution interleaved with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Youheng Zheng

Quantum magic is a necessary resource for quantum computers to be not efficiently simulable by classical computers. Previous results have linked the amount of quantum magic, characterized by the number of $T$ gates or stabilizer rank, to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Yifan Zhang , Yuxuan Zhang

Cross-platform verification is the task of comparing the output states produced by different physical platforms using solely local quantum operations and classical communication. While protocols have previously been suggested for this task,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Marcel Hinsche , Marios Ioannou , Sofiene Jerbi , Lorenzo Leone , Jens Eisert , Jose Carrasco

Circuit cutting allows quantum circuits larger than the available hardware to be executed. Cutting techniques split circuits into smaller subcircuits, run them on the hardware, and recombine results through classical post-processing.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Songqinghao Yang , Prakash Murali

We develop several algorithms for performing quantum phase estimation based on basic measurements and classical post-processing. We present a pedagogical review of quantum phase estimation and simulate the algorithm to numerically determine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-30 Krysta M. Svore , Matthew B. Hastings , Michael Freedman

Quantum performance simulators can provide practical metrics for the effectiveness of executing theoretical quantum information processing protocols on physical hardware. In this work we present a scheme to simulate the performance of fault…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-05 Andre Van Rynbach , Ahsan Muhammad , Abhijit C. Mehta , Jeffrey Hussmann , Jungsang Kim

The most promising applications of quantum computing are centered around solving search and optimization tasks, particularly in fields such as physics simulations, quantum chemistry, and finance. However, the current quantum software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Asmar Muqeet , Shaukat Ali , Paolo Arcaini

An $n$-qubit quantum circuit is said to be peaked if it has an output probability that is at least inverse-polynomially large as a function of $n$. We describe a classical algorithm with quasipolynomial runtime $n^{O(\log{n})}$ that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-18 Sergey Bravyi , David Gosset , Yinchen Liu

Continuous-time stochastic processes pervade everyday experience, and the simulation of models of these processes is of great utility. Classical models of systems operating in continuous-time must typically track an unbounded amount of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-05 Thomas J. Elliott , Mile Gu

We investigate the boundary between classical and quantum computational power. This work consists of two parts. First we develop new classical simulation algorithms that are centered on sampling methods. Using these techniques we generate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-20 M. Van den Nest

Accurate characterization of quantum noise, exemplified by the Pauli channel, is a cornerstone for building fault-tolerant quantum computers. A recent protocol (PRX Quantum 6, 020323 (2025)) combining channel concatenation and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Yuan-Zhuo Wang , Yi-Ran Xiao , Ming-Yang Li , Shengjun Wu , Zeng-Bing Chen

Pauli channels are fundamental in the context of quantum computing as they model the simplest kind of noise in quantum devices. We propose a quantum algorithm for simulating Pauli channels and extend it to encompass Pauli dynamical maps…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Tomas Basile , Carlos Pineda

Computer models or simulators are widely used across scientific fields, but are computationally expensive limiting their use to explore possible scenarios/outcomes. Gaussian process emulators are statistical surrogates that can rapidly…

Computation · Statistics 2025-08-27 Josh Seidman , Elaine T. Spiller

Classical simulations of quantum circuits are limited in both space and time when the qubit count is above 50, the realm where quantum supremacy reigns. However, recently, for the low depth circuit with more than 50 qubits, there are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Zhao-Yun Chen , Qi Zhou , Cheng Xue , Xia Yang , Guang-Can Guo , Guo-Ping Guo