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Simulating fermionic systems on a quantum computer requires representing fermionic states using qubits. The complexity of many simulation algorithms depends on the complexity of implementing rotations generated by fermionic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Joseph Carolan , Luke Schaeffer

We present an efficient protocol leveraging classical computation to support Initial State Preparation for strongly correlated fermionic systems, a critical bottleneck for fault-tolerant quantum simulation. Focusing on nuclear shell model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Joe Gibbs , Lukasz Cincio , Chandan Sarma , Zoë Holmes , Paul Stevenson

We propose and analyze an approach to realize quantum computation and simulation using fermionic particles under quantum gas microscopes. Our work is inspired by a recent experimental demonstration of large-scale quantum registers, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Xiangkai Sun , Di Luo , Soonwon Choi

We study the classical simulation complexity in both the weak and strong senses, of matchgate (MG) computations supplemented with all combinations of settings involving inclusion of intermediate adaptive or nonadaptive computational basis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Martin Hebenstreit , Richard Jozsa , Barbara Kraus , Sergii Strelchuk

We show how techniques from machine learning and optimization can be used to find circuits of photonic quantum computers that perform a desired transformation between input and output states. In the simplest case of a single input state,…

The theory of matchgates is of interest in various areas in physics and computer science. Matchgates occur in e.g. the study of fermions and spin chains, in the theory of holographic algorithms and in several recent works in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Van den Nest

We propose efficient algorithms for classically simulating fermionic linear optics operations applied to non-Gaussian initial states. By gadget constructions, this provides algorithms for fermionic linear optics with non-Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Beatriz Dias , Robert Koenig

In quantum information theory and statistical physics, symmetries of multiple copies, or replicas, of a system play a pivotal role. For unitary ensembles, these symmetries are encoded in the replicated commutant: the algebra of operators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Piotr Sierant , Xhek Turkeshi , Poetri Sonya Tarabunga

The ability to simulate a fermionic system on a quantum computer is expected to revolutionize chemical engineering, materials design, nuclear physics, to name a few. Thus, optimizing the simulation circuits is of significance in harnessing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Qingfeng Wang , Ming Li , Christopher Monroe , Yunseong Nam

We study the ensemble of states generated by performing projective measurements on the output of a random matchgate (or free-fermionic) quantum circuit. We rigorously show that this `projected ensemble' exhibits deep thermalization: For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Mircea Bejan , Benjamin Béri , Max McGinley

Photonic quantum computing has gained significant interest in recent years due to its potential for scaling to large numbers of qubits. A critical requirement for fault-tolerant quantum computation is the reliable generation of non-Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 S. Ismailzadeh , B. Abedi Ravan

Classically hard to simulate quantum states, or "magic states", are prerequisites to quantum advantage, highlighting an apparent separation between classically and quantumly tractable problems. Classically simulable states such as Clifford…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Luke Coffman , Graeme Smith , Xun Gao

Quantum simulations of electronic structure and strongly correlated quantum phases are widely regarded as among the most promising applications of quantum computing. These computations naturally benefit from native fermionic encodings,…

Simulating strongly correlated fermionic systems is notoriously hard on classical computers. An alternative approach, as proposed by Feynman, is to use a quantum computer. Here, we discuss quantum simulation of strongly correlated fermionic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 Zhang Jiang , Kevin J. Sung , Kostyantyn Kechedzhi , Vadim N. Smelyanskiy , Sergio Boixo

Machine learning tasks are an exciting application for quantum computers, as it has been proven that they can learn certain problems more efficiently than classical ones. Applying quantum machine learning algorithms to classical data can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Bernhard Jobst , Kevin Shen , Carlos A. Riofrío , Elvira Shishenina , Frank Pollmann

Matchgate unitaries are ubiquitous in quantum computation due to their relation to non-interacting fermions and because they can be used to benchmark quantum computers. Implementing such unitaries on fault-tolerant devices requires first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Berta Casas , Paolo Braccia , Élie Gouzien , M. Cerezo , Diego García-Martín

Matchgates are a group of two-qubit gates associated with free fermions. They are classically simulatable if restricted to act between nearest neighbors on a one-dimensional chain, but become universal for quantum computation with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-08 Daniel J. Brod , Ernesto F. Galvão

We introduce a framework for simulating, on an $(n+1)$-qubit quantum computer, the action of a Gaussian Bosonic (GB) circuit on a state over $2^n$ modes. Specifically, we encode the initial bosonic state's expectation values over quadrature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Alice Barthe , M. Cerezo , Andrew T. Sornborger , Martin Larocca , Diego García-Martín

Quantum computations are typically compiled into a circuit of basic quantum gates. Just like for classical circuits, a quantum compiler should optimize the quantum circuit, e.g. by minimizing the number of required gates. Optimizing quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-31 Raban Iten , Romain Moyard , Tony Metger , David Sutter , Stefan Woerner

Fermionic linear optics is efficiently classically simulatable. Here it is shown that the set of states achievable with fermionic linear optics and particle measurements is the closure of a low dimensional Lie group. The weakness of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Knill