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We study the efficiency of algorithms simulating a system evolving with Hamiltonian $H=\sum_{j=1}^m H_j$. We consider high order splitting methods that play a key role in quantum Hamiltonian simulation. We obtain upper bounds on the number…

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In this work we propose an approach for implementing time-evolution of a quantum system using product formulas. The quantum algorithms we develop have provably better scaling (in terms of gate complexity and circuit depth) than a naive…

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Nonequilibrium time evolution of large quantum systems is a strong candidate for quantum advantage. Variational quantum algorithms have been put forward for this task, but their quantum optimization routines suffer from trainability and…

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A broad spectrum of physical systems in condensed-matter and high-energy physics, vibrational spectroscopy, and circuit and cavity QED necessitates the incorporation of bosonic degrees of freedom, such as phonons, photons, and gluons, into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Bo Peng , Yuan Su , Daniel Claudino , Karol Kowalski , Guang Hao Low , Martin Roetteler

This work provides a rigorous and self-contained introduction to numerical methods for Hamiltonian simulation in quantum computing, with a focus on high-order product formulas for efficiently approximating the time evolution of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Javier Lopez-Cerezo

Product formula approximations of the time-evolution operator on quantum computers are of great interest due to their simplicity, and good scaling with system size by exploiting commutativity between Hamiltonian terms. However, product…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Guang Hao Low , Vadym Kliuchnikov , Nathan Wiebe

Advancing quantum technologies requires precise and robust coherent control of quantum systems. Robust higher-order Hamiltonian engineering is essential for high-precision control and for accessing effective dynamics absent at zeroth order.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Jiahui Chen , David Cory

We present a quantum algorithm to achieve higher-order transformations of Hamiltonian dynamics. Namely, the algorithm takes as input a finite number of queries to a black-box seed Hamiltonian dynamics to simulate a desired Hamiltonian. Our…

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Non-autonomous dynamical systems appear in a very wide range of interesting applications, both in classical and quantum dynamics, where in the latter case it corresponds to having a time-dependent Hamiltonian. However, the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Yu Cao , Shi Jin , Nana Liu

Motivated by various applications, unbounded Hamiltonian simulation has recently garnered great attention. Quantum Magnus algorithms, designed to achieve commutator scaling for time-dependent Hamiltonian simulation, have been found to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Yonah Borns-Weil , Di Fang , Jiaqi Zhang

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…

We propose a new method for simulating certain type of time-dependent Hamiltonian $H(t) = \sum_{i=1}^m \gamma_i(t) H_i$ where $\gamma_i(t)$ (and its higher order derivatives) is bounded, computable function of time $t$, and each $H_i$ is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 Nhat A. Nghiem

Diagonalizing a Hamiltonian, which is essential for simulating its long-time dynamics, is a key primitive in quantum computing and has been proven to yield a quantum advantage for several specific families of Hamiltonians. Yet, despite its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Taehee Ko , Sangkook Choi , Hyowon Park , Xiantao Li

The computation of the Schr\"odinger equation featuring time-dependent potentials is of great importance in quantum control of atomic and molecular processes. These applications often involve highly oscillatory potentials and require…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Arieh Iserles , Karolina Kropielnicka , Pranav Singh

In this paper, we present a method for the Hamiltonian simulation in the context of eigenvalue estimation problems which improves earlier results dealing with Hamiltonian simulation through the truncated Taylor series. In particular, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-01 Ammar Daskin , Sabre Kais

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

We present an efficient quantum algorithm for simulating the evolution of a sparse Hamiltonian H for a given time t in terms of a procedure for computing the matrix entries of H. In particular, when H acts on n qubits, has at most a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dominic W. Berry , Graeme Ahokas , Richard Cleve , Barry C. Sanders

We describe a simple method for simulating time-independent Hamiltonian $H$ that could be decomposed as $H = \sum_{i=1}^m H_i$ where each $H_i$ can be efficiently simulated. Approaches relying on product formula generally work by splitting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Nhat A. Nghiem

Quantum dynamics simulations (QDSs) are one of the most highly anticipated applications of quantum computing. Quantum circuit depth for implementing Hamiltonian simulation algorithms is commonly time dependent so that long time dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Linyun Wan , Jie Liu , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang