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The simulation of quantum systems is one of the flagship applications of near-term NISQ (noisy intermediate-scale quantum) computing devices. Efficiently simulating the rich, non-unitary dynamics of open quantum systems remains challenging…

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Despite significant progress in quantum computing in recent years, executing quantum circuits for practical problems remains challenging due to error-prone quantum hardware. Hence, quantum error correction becomes essential but induces…

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We present a framework for upper bounding the number of iterations required by first-order optimization algorithms implementing constrained LQR controllers. We derive new bounds for the condition number and extremal eigenvalues of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-07 Ian McInerney , Eric C. Kerrigan , George A. Constantinides

The goal of digital quantum simulation is to approximate the dynamics of a given target Hamiltonian via a sequence of quantum gates, a procedure known as Trotterization. The quality of this approximation can be controlled by the so called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-22 Lorenzo Pastori , Tobias Olsacher , Christian Kokail , Peter Zoller

The time evolution operator plays a crucial role in the precise computation of chemical experiments on quantum computers and holds immense promise for advancing the fields of physical and computer sciences, with applications spanning…

Trotterization-based, iterative approaches to quantum simulation are restricted to simulation times less than the coherence time of the quantum computer, which limits their utility in the near term. Here, we present a hybrid…

We present a quantum algorithm for simulating the time evolution generated by any bounded, time-dependent operator $-A$ with non-positive logarithmic norm, thereby serving as a natural generalization of the Hamiltonian simulation problem.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Guang Hao Low , Rolando D. Somma

The standard approach to universal fault-tolerant quantum computing is to develop a general purpose quantum error correction mechanism that can implement a universal set of logical gates fault-tolerantly. Given such a scheme, any quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Zhuangzhuang Chen , Narayanan Rengaswamy

Variational quantum algorithms dominate contemporary gate-based quantum enhanced optimisation, eigenvalue estimation and machine learning. Here we establish the quantum computational universality of variational quantum computation by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Jacob Biamonte

Quantum dynamics can be simulated on a quantum computer by exponentiating elementary terms from the Hamiltonian in a sequential manner. However, such an implementation of Trotter steps has gate complexity depending on the total Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-15 Guang Hao Low , Yuan Su , Yu Tong , Minh C. Tran

Quantum chemistry and materials science are among the most promising areas for demonstrating algorithmic quantum advantage and quantum utility due to their inherent quantum mechanical nature. Still, large-scale simulations of quantum…

Quantized tensor trains (QTTs) are a multiscale computational framework that can potentially reduce the computational cost of solving partial differential equations and initial value problems by making low-rank approximations. However, its…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Erika Ye

Parameterized quantum circuits are a promising technology for achieving a quantum advantage. An important application is the variational simulation of time evolution of quantum systems. To make the most of quantum hardware, variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Marcello Benedetti , Mattia Fiorentini , Michael Lubasch

In spite of their evident logical character, particle statistics symmetries are not among the inherently quantum features exploited in quantum computation. A difficulty may be that, being a constant of motion of a unitary evolution, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giuseppe Castagnoli , Dalida Monti

Simulation of quantum systems is notoriously challenging for classical computers, while quantum hardware is naturally well-suited for this task. However, the imperfections of contemporary quantum systems poses a considerable challenge in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Yotam Shapira , Jovan Markov , Nitzan Akerman , Ady Stern , Roee Ozeri

Implementing time evolution operators on quantum circuits is important for quantum simulation. However, the standard way, Trotterization, requires a huge numbers of gates to achieve desirable accuracy. Here, we propose a local variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-13 Kaoru Mizuta , Yuya O. Nakagawa , Kosuke Mitarai , Keisuke Fujii

To overcome the fast oscillatory behavior of correlation functions for extracting scattering phase shift in real-time quantum simulations encountered in Ref.\cite{Guo:2026qkx}, we propose and test two solutions in the present work. One is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Peng Guo , Paul LeVan , Frank X. Lee , Yong Zhao

A foundational assumption of quantum error correction theory is that quantum gates can be scaled to large processors without exceeding the error-threshold for fault tolerance. Two major challenges that could become fundamental roadblocks…

Digital quantum simulation (DQS) is one of the most promising paths for achieving first useful real-world applications for quantum processors. Yet even assuming rapid progress in device engineering and development of fault-tolerant quantum…

The advent of near-term digital quantum computers could offer us an exciting opportunity to investigate quantum many-body phenomena beyond that of classical computing. To make the best use of the hardware available, it is paramount that we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Luke Causer , Felix Jung , Asimpunya Mitra , Frank Pollmann , Adam Gammon-Smith