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The product formula, commonly known as Trotter decomposition, is a central tool for digital quantum simulation, whose performance depends critically on how the Hamiltonian is partitioned into tractable blocks. Standard decompositions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Naoki Negishi , Bo Yang

Quantum computers can efficiently simulate many-body systems. As a widely used Hamiltonian simulation tool, the Trotter-Suzuki scheme splits the evolution into the number of Trotter steps $N$ and approximates the evolution of each step by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Suguru Endo , Qi Zhao , Ying Li , Simon Benjamin , Xiao Yuan

When simulating the dynamics of open quantum systems with quantum computers, it is essential to accurately approximate the system's behaviour while preserving the physicality of its evolution. Traditionally, for Markovian open quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 I. J. David , I. Sinayskiy , F. Petruccione

Quantum simulation is a promising application for quantum computing. Quantum simulation algorithms may require the ability to control the time evolution unitary. Naive techniques to control a unitary can substantially increase the required…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 William A. Simon , Peter J. Love

Quantum simulation is a promising application of future quantum computers. Product formulas, or Trotterization, are the oldest and still remain an appealing method to simulate quantum systems. For an accurate product formula approximation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Chi-Fang , Chen , Fernando G. S. L. Brandão

Stochastic methods offer an effective way to suppress coherent errors in quantum simulation. In particular, the randomized compilation protocol may reduce circuit depth by randomly sampling Hamiltonian terms rather than following the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Yu-Xia Wu , Yun-Zhuo Fan , Dan-Bo Zhang

Various Hamiltonian simulation algorithms have been proposed to efficiently study the dynamics of quantum systems on a quantum computer. The existing algorithms generally approximate the time evolution operators, which may need a deep…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Zi-Jian Zhang , Jinzhao Sun , Xiao Yuan , Man-Hong Yung

This work discusses a variational approach to determining the time evolution operator. We directly see a glimpse of how a generalization of the quantum geometric tensor for unitary operators plays a central role in parameter evolution. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Michael Vogl

Simulating vibrational dynamics is essential for understanding molecular structure, unlocking useful applications such as vibrational spectroscopy for high-fidelity chemical detection. Quantum algorithms for vibrational dynamics are…

Simulation of continuous time evolution requires time discretization on both classical and quantum computers. A finer time step improves simulation precision, but it inevitably leads to increased computational efforts. This is particularly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Hongzheng Zhao , Marin Bukov , Markus Heyl , Roderich Moessner

Trotter-Suzuki decompositions are frequently used in the quantum simulation of quantum chemistry. They transform the evolution operator into a form implementable on a quantum device, while incurring an error---the Trotter error. The Trotter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Andrew Tranter , Peter J. Love , Florian Mintert , Nathan Wiebe , Peter V. Coveney

A complex but important challenge in understanding quantum mechanical phenomena is the simulation of quantum many-body dynamics. Although quantum computers offer significant potential to accelerate these simulations, their practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Gian Gentinetta , Friederike Metz , Giuseppe Carleo

We show that the time-dependent variational principle provides a unifying framework for time-evolution methods and optimisation methods in the context of matrix product states. In particular, we introduce a new integration scheme for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 Jutho Haegeman , Christian Lubich , Ivan Oseledets , Bart Vandereycken , Frank Verstraete

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

Recent work has deployed linear combinations of unitaries techniques to reduce the cost of fault-tolerant quantum simulations of correlated electron models. Here, we show that one can sometimes improve upon those results with optimized…

Product formula methods, particularly the second-order Suzuki decomposition, are an important tool for simulating quantum dynamics on quantum computers due to their simplicity and unitarity preservation. While higher-order schemes have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Matthew A Lane , Dan E Browne

Digital quantum simulation of many-body dynamics relies on Trotterization to decompose the target time evolution into elementary quantum gates operating at a fixed equidistant time discretization. Recent advances have outlined protocols…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Hongzheng Zhao , Ao Chen , Shu-Wei Liu , Marin Bukov , Markus Heyl , Roderich Moessner

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

Universal quantum simulation may provide insights into those many-body systems that cannot be described classically, and that cannot be efficiently simulated with current technology. The Trotter formula, which decomposes a desired unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 George C. Knee , William J. Munro

We introduce novel algorithms for the quantum simulation of molecular systems which are asymptotically more efficient than those based on the Trotter-Suzuki decomposition. We present the first application of a recently developed technique…