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Classical optimization is a cornerstone of the success of variational quantum algorithms, which often require determining the derivatives of the cost function relative to variational parameters. The computation of the cost function and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Muhammad Umer , Eleftherios Mastorakis , Dimitris G. Angelakis

In this paper, we introduce an efficient and end-to-end quantum algorithm tailored for computing the Value-at-Risk (VaR) and conditional Value-at-Risk (CVar) for a portfolio of European options. Our focus is on leveraging quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Yusen Wu , Jingbo B. Wang , Yuying Li

We develop a quantum algorithm to price discretely monitored lookback options in the Black-Scholes framework using imaginary time evolution. By rewriting the pricing PDE as a Schrodinger-type equation, the problem becomes the imaginary time…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-04-02 Florence Paquette , Tania Belabbas , Emmanuel Hamel , Anne MacKay

In this paper we reformulate the problem of pricing options in a quantum setting. Our proposed algorithm involves preparing an initial state, representing the option price, and then evolving it using existing imaginary time simulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Santosh Kumar Radha

Quantum computing has emerged as a promising avenue for achieving significant speedup, particularly in large-scale PDE simulations, compared to classical computing. One of the main quantum approaches involves utilizing Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Junpeng Hu , Shi Jin , Nana Liu , Lei Zhang

We present the first quantum-hardware implementation of a Hamiltonian simulation algorithm that produces signed vector-field solutions to the time-domain Maxwells equations using a Schrodingerisation-based approach. The electromagnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Gautam Sharma , Apurva Tiwari , Niladri Gomes , Jezer Jojo , J. Eric Bracken , Jay Pathak

The ongoing progress in quantum technologies has fueled a sustained exploration of their potential applications across various domains. One particularly promising field is quantitative finance, where a central challenge is the pricing of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Fernando Alonso , Álvaro Leitao , Carlos Vázquez

We develop quantum algorithms for pricing Asian and barrier options under the Heston model, a popular stochastic volatility model, and estimate their costs, in terms of T-count, T-depth and number of logical qubits, on instances under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Guoming Wang , Angus Kan

Extended systems governed by partial differential equations can, under suitable conditions, be approximated by means of sets of ordinary differential equations for global quantities capturing the essential features of the systems dynamics.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-18 Juan Belmonte-Beitia , Gabriel F. Calvo , Victor M. Perez-Garcia

We develop a quantum algorithm for linear algebraic equations $ A\bb{x} = \bb{b} $ from the perspective of Schr\"odingerization-form problems, which are characterized by a system of linear convection equations in one higher dimension. When…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Yin Yang , Yue Yu , Long Zhang

We present an efficient and parsimonious algorithm to solve mixed initial/final-value problems. The algorithm optimally limits the memory storage and the computational time requirements: with respect to a simple forward integration, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Antonio Celani , Massimo Cencini , Alain Noullez

We prove the existence and uniqueness of the fundamental solution for Kolmogorov operators associated to some stochastic processes, that arise in the Black & Scholes setting for the pricing problem relevant to path dependent options. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Francesca Anceschi , Silvia Muzzioli , Sergio Polidoro

We design the first parallel scheme based on Schwarz waveform relaxation methods for the Kolmogorov-Fokker-Planck equation. We introduce a new convergence proof for the algorithms. We also provide results about the existence and uniqueness…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-20 Luca Gerardo-Giorda , Minh-Binh Tran

We price European-style options written on forward contracts in a commodity market, which we model with an infinite-dimensional Heath-Jarrow-Morton (HJM) approach. For this purpose we introduce a new class of state-dependent volatility…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-05-07 Fred Espen Benth , Nils Detering , Silvia Lavagnini

Hamiltonian approach in quantum mechanics provides a new thinking for barrier option pricing. For proportional floating barrier step options, the option price changing process is similar to the one dimensional trapezoid potential barrier…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2023-12-06 Qi Chen , Hong-tao Wang , Chao Guo

New kind of differential equations, called local fractional differential equations, has been proposed for the first time. They involve local fractional derivatives introduced recently. Such equations appear to be suitable to deal with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kiran M. Kolwankar , Anil D. Gangal

Quantum simulation is known to be capable of simulating certain dynamical systems in continuous time -- Schrodinger's equations being the most direct and well-known -- more efficiently than classical simulation. Any linear dynamical system…

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

The Schrodinger equation describes how quantum states evolve according to the Hamiltonian of the system. For physical systems, we have it that the Hamiltonian must be a Hermitian operator to ensure unitary dynamics. For anti-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Swagat Kumar , Colin Michael Wilmott

We provide several quantum algorithms for continuous optimization that do not require gradient estimation. Instead, we encode the optimization problem into the dynamics of a physical system and coherently simulate the time evolution. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Ahmet Burak Catli , Sophia Simon , Nathan Wiebe

We propose an explicit, oracle-free quantum framework for numerically simulating general linear partial differential equations (PDEs), extending previous work to incorporate (a) Robin boundary conditions - which include Neumann and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Nikita Guseynov , Xiajie Huang , Nana Liu