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A scheme for arbitrary quantum state engineering (QSE) in three-state systems is proposed. Firstly, starting from a set of complete orthogonal time-dependent basis with undetermined coefficients, a time-dependent Hamiltonian is derived via…

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Quantum computers promise a highly efficient approach to investigate quantum phase transitions, which describe abrupt changes between different ground states of many-body systems. At quantum critical points, the divergent correlation length…

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This paper introduces Witnessed Quantum Time Evolution (WQTE), a novel quantum algorithm for efficiently computing the eigen-energy spectra of arbitrary quantum systems without requiring eigenstate preparation-a key limitation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Qing-Xing Xie , Zidong Lin , Yun-Long Liu , Yan Zhao

Quantum computers offer the potential to simulate nuclear processes that are classically intractable. With the goal of understanding the necessary quantum resources to realize this potential, we employ state-of-the-art…

We formulate a novel ground state quantum computation approach that requires no unitary evolution of qubits in time: the qubits are fixed in stationary states of the Hamiltonian. This formulation supplies a completely time-independent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Ari Mizel , M. W. Mitchell , Marvin L. Cohen

Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE) is a cornerstone algorithm for fault-tolerant quantum computation, especially for electronic structure calculations of chemical systems. To accommodate the diverse characteristics of quantum chemical systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Calvin Ku , Yu-Cheng Chen , Alice Hu , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

In designing quantum control, it is generally required to simulate the controlled system evolution with a classical computer. However, computing the time evolution operator can be quite resource-consuming since the total Hamiltonian is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Xiaodong Yang , Xinfang Nie , Yunlan Ji , Tao Xin , Dawei Lu , Jun Li

Compared with time independent Hamiltonians, the dynamics of generic quantum Hamiltonians $H(t)$ are complicated by the presence of time ordering in the evolution operator. In the context of digital quantum simulation, this difficulty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Jacob Watkins , Nathan Wiebe , Alessandro Roggero , Dean Lee

The simulation of quantum systems is a task for which quantum computers are believed to give an exponential speedup as compared to classical ones. While ground states of one-dimensional systems can be efficiently approximated using Matrix…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Norbert Schuch , Michael M. Wolf , Karl Gerd H. Vollbrecht , J. Ignacio Cirac

In this paper, we introduce a quantum-enhanced algorithm for simulation-based optimization. Simulation-based optimization seeks to optimize an objective function that is computationally expensive to evaluate exactly, and thus, is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-08 Julien Gacon , Christa Zoufal , Stefan Woerner

Quantum computing employs controllable interactions to perform sequences of logical gates and entire algorithms on quantum registers. This paradigm has been widely explored, e.g., for simulating dynamics of manybody systems by decomposing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 S. Alipour , A. T. Rezakhani , Alireza Tavanfar , K. Mölmer , T. Ala-Nissila

Quantum computing allows for the manipulation of highly correlated states whose properties quickly go beyond the capacity of any classical method to calculate. Thus one natural problem which could lend itself to quantum advantage is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Kevin Lively , Tim Bode , Jochen Szangolies , Jian-Xin Zhu , Benedikt Fauseweh

Optimization problems in finance, physics and computer science are typically very hard to tackle in classical computing and quantum computing could help speed up computations and provide efficient methods for tackling large problems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Dawei Zhong , Akhil Francis , Ermal Rrapaj

Ground-state preparation for a given Hamiltonian is a common quantum-computing task of great importance and has relevant applications in quantum chemistry, computational material modeling, and combinatorial optimization. We consider an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Yu-Qin Chen , Shi-Xin Zhang , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang

Quantum Amplitude Estimation (QAE) can achieve a quadratic speed-up for applications classically solved by Monte Carlo simulation. A key requirement to realize this advantage is efficient state preparation. If state preparation is too…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Almudena Carrera Vazquez , Stefan Woerner

While quantum algorithms for simulation exhibit better asymptotic scaling than their classical counterparts, they currently cannot be implemented on real-world devices. Instead, chemists and computer scientists rely on costly classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-03 Christopher Kang , Nicholas P. Bauman , Sriram Krishnamoorthy , Karol Kowalski

We propose an analysis of the Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE) algorithm applied to many-electron systems by investigating its free parameters such as the time step, number of phase qubits, initial state preparation, number of measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Wassil Sennane , Jérémie Messud

We provide a quantum method for simulating Hamiltonian evolution with complexity polynomial in the logarithm of the inverse error. This is an exponential improvement over existing methods for Hamiltonian simulation. In addition, its scaling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-24 Dominic W. Berry , Richard Cleve , Rolando D. Somma

The physics of quantum mechanics is the inspiration for, and underlies, quantum computation. As such, one expects physical intuition to be highly influential in the understanding and design of many quantum algorithms, particularly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-06 Guang Hao Low , Isaac L. Chuang

While quantum computers are capable of simulating many quantum systems efficiently, the simulation algorithms must begin with the preparation of an appropriate initial state. We present a method for generating physically relevant quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-29 Nicholas J. Ward , Ivan Kassal , Alán Aspuru-Guzik