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Simulating quantum circuits (QC) on high-performance computing (HPC) systems has become an essential method to benchmark algorithms and probe the potential of large-scale quantum computation despite the limitations of current quantum…

Quantum simulation is a promising near term application for mesoscale quantum information processors, with the potential to solve computationally intractable problems at the scale of just a few dozen interacting quantum systems. Recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-14 David L. Hayes , Steven T. Flammia , Michael J. Biercuk

Efficient methods for the simulation of quantum circuits on classic computers are crucial for their analysis due to the exponential growth of the problem size with the number of qubits. Here we study lumping methods based on bisimulation,…

Due to the scarcity of quantum computing resources, researchers and developers have very limited access to real quantum computers. Therefore, judicious planning and utilization of quantum computer runtime are essential to ensure smooth…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ning Ma , Heng Li

Quantum simulation algorithms often require numerous ancilla qubits and deep circuits, prohibitive for near-term hardware. We introduce a framework for simulating quantum channels using ensembles of low-depth circuits in place of many-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-01 Joseph Peetz , Scott E. Smart , Prineha Narang

In light of recently proposed quantum algorithms that incorporate symmetries in the hope of quantum advantage, we show that with symmetries that are restrictive enough, classical algorithms can efficiently emulate their quantum counterparts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Eric R. Anschuetz , Andreas Bauer , Bobak T. Kiani , Seth Lloyd

We present the Julia package PauliStrings ( https://github.com/nicolasloizeau/PauliStrings.jl ) for quantum many-body simulations, which performs fast operations on the Pauli group by encoding Pauli strings in binary. All of the Pauli…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 Nicolas Loizeau , J. Clayton Peacock , Dries Sels

We generalize the polynomial-time outcome-complete simulation algorithm for stabilizer circuits in arXiv:2309.08676 to track global phases exactly, yielding what we call phased outcome-complete simulation. The original algorithm enabled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Vadym Kliuchnikov , Adam Paetznick , Marcus P. da Silva

Quantum computing promises to revolutionize several scientific and technological domains through fundamentally new ways of processing information. Among its most compelling applications is digital quantum simulation, where quantum computers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Laurin E. Fischer

We present an original model of paraconsistent Turing machines (PTMs), a generalization of the classical Turing machines model of computation using a paraconsistent logic. Next, we briefl y describe the standard models of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Juan C. Agudelo , Walter Carnielli

We describe and analyze algorithms for classically simulating measurement of an $n$-qubit quantum state $\psi$ in the standard basis, that is, sampling a bit string $x$ from the probability distribution $|\langle x|\psi\rangle|^2$. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Sergey Bravyi , David Gosset , Yinchen Liu

Simulating molecules is believed to be one of the early-stage applications for quantum computers. Current state-of-the-art quantum computers are limited in size and coherence, therefore optimizing resources to execute quantum algorithms is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Kanav Setia , Richard Chen , Julia E. Rice , Antonio Mezzacapo , Marco Pistoia , James Whitfield

Motivated by estimation of quantum noise models, we study the problem of learning a Pauli channel, or more generally the Pauli error rates of an arbitrary channel. By employing a novel reduction to the "Population Recovery" problem, we give…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Steven T. Flammia , Ryan O'Donnell

Direct fidelity estimation is a protocol that estimates the fidelity between an experimental quantum state and a target pure state. By measuring the expectation values of Pauli operators selected through importance sampling, the method is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Júlia Barberà-Rodríguez , Mariana Navarro , Leonardo Zambrano

Randomized algorithms are crucial subroutines in quantum computing, but the requirement to execute many types of circuits on a real quantum device has been challenging to their extensive implementation. In this study, we propose an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Shu Kanno , Ikko Hamamura , Rudy Raymond , Qi Gao , Naoki Yamamoto

Classical simulations of quantum circuits are essential for verifying and benchmarking quantum algorithms, particularly for large circuits, where computational demands increase exponentially with the number of qubits. Among available…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-20 Santana Y. Pradata , M 'Anin N. 'Azhiim , Hendry M. Lim , Ahmad R. T. Nugraha

We present the MPS-JuliQAOA simulator, a user-friendly, open-source tool to simulate the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) of any optimization problem that can be expressed as diagonal Hamiltonian. By leveraging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Sean Feeney , Reuben Tate , John Golden , Stephan Eidenbenz

As quantum computers improve in the number of qubits and fidelity, the question of when they surpass state-of-the-art classical computation for a well-defined computational task is attracting much attention. The leading candidate task for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Igor L. Markov , Aneeqa Fatima , Sergei V. Isakov , Sergio Boixo

We revisit the problem of Pauli shadow tomography: given copies of an unknown $n$-qubit quantum state $\rho$, estimate $\text{tr}(P\rho)$ for some set of Pauli operators $P$ to within additive error $\epsilon$. This has been a popular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Sitan Chen , Weiyuan Gong , Qi Ye

Classical random walk formalism shows a significant role across a wide range of applications. As its quantum counterpart, the quantum walk is proposed as an important theoretical model for quantum computing. By exploiting the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Xiaogang Qiang , Shixin Ma , Haijing Song