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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

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

We propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm, originated from quantum chemistry, to price European and Asian options in the Black-Scholes model. Our approach is based on the equivalence between the pricing partial differential equation…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-02-08 Filipe Fontanela , Antoine Jacquier , Mugad Oumgari

Pricing financial derivatives, in particular European-style options at different time-maturities and strikes, means a relevant problem in finance. The dynamics describing the price of vanilla options when constant volatilities and interest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-22 Javier Gonzalez-Conde , Ángel Rodríguez-Rozas , Enrique Solano , Mikel Sanz

Pricing a multi-asset derivative is an important problem in financial engineering, both theoretically and practically. Although it is suitable to numerically solve partial differential equations to calculate the prices of certain types of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-05 Kenji Kubo , Koichi Miyamoto , Kosuke Mitarai , Keisuke Fujii

In this work, we present a quantum algorithm designed to solve the differential equation used in the pricing of Asian options, in the framework of the Black-Scholes model. Our approach modifies an existing quantum pre-conditioning method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Gumaro Rendon , Rutuja Kshirsagar , Quoc Hoan Tran

Variational quantum Monte Carlo (VMC) combined with neural-network quantum states offers a novel angle of attack on the curse-of-dimensionality encountered in a particular class of partial differential equations (PDEs); namely, the real-…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Tianchen Zhao , Chuhao Sun , Asaf Cohen , James Stokes , Shravan Veerapaneni

Quantum phase estimation (QPE) plays a pivotal role in many quantum algorithms, offering provable speedups in applications such as Shor's factoring algorithm. While fault-tolerant quantum algorithms for combinatorial and Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Nora Bauer , George Siopsis

We consider the problem of pricing discretely monitored Asian options over $T$ monitoring points where the underlying asset is modeled by a geometric Brownian motion. We provide two quantum algorithms with complexity poly-logarithmic in $T$…

The variational quantum imaginary time evolution (VarQITE) algorithm is a near-term method to prepare the ground state and Gibbs state of Hamiltonians. Finding an appropriate parameterization of the quantum circuit is crucial to the success…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Xiaoyang Wang , Yahui Chai , Maria Demidik , Xu Feng , Karl Jansen , Cenk Tüysüz

We present a differential machine learning method for zero-days-to-expiry (0DTE) options under a stochastic-volatility jump-diffusion model. To handle the ultra-short-maturity regime, we express the option price in Black-Scholes form with a…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-04-10 Takayuki Sakuma

This study investigates enhancing option pricing by extending the Black-Scholes model to include stochastic volatility and interest rate variability within the Partial Differential Equation (PDE). The PDE is solved using the finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Nikhil Shivakumar Nayak

Following the recent great advance of quantum computing technology, there are growing interests in its applications to industries, including finance. In this paper, we focus on derivative pricing based on solving the Black-Scholes partial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Koichi Miyamoto , Kenji Kubo

In this paper we provide a quantum Monte Carlo algorithm to solve multidimensional Black-Scholes PDEs with correlation for option pricing. The payoff function of the option is of general form and is only required to be continuous and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Jianjun Chen , Yongming Li , Ariel Neufeld

In this work we propose a option pricing model based on the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. It is a new look at the Black-Scholes formula which is based on the quantum game theory. We show the differences between a classical look which is price…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Edward W. Piotrowski , Malgorzata Schroeder , Anna Zambrzycka

Financial derivative pricing is a significant challenge in finance, involving the valuation of instruments like options based on underlying assets. While some cases have simple solutions, many require complex classical computational methods…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-05-15 Robert Scriba , Yuying Li , Jingbo B Wang

In a global derivatives market with notional values in the hundreds of trillions of dollars, the accuracy and efficiency of pricing models are of fundamental importance, with direct implications for risk management, capital allocation, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Sebastian Zając , Rafał Pracht

Quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE) is one of the promising candidates for finding eigenvalues and eigenstates of a Hamiltonian. However, the original QITE proposal [Nat. Phys. 16, 205-210 (2020)], which approximates the imaginary time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Yifei Huang , Yuguo Shao , Weiluo Ren , Jinzhao Sun , Dingshun Lv

We propose an algorithm based on variational quantum imaginary time evolution for solving the Feynman-Kac partial differential equation resulting from a multidimensional system of stochastic differential equations. We utilize the…

Quantum simulation on emerging quantum hardware is a topic of intense interest. While many studies focus on computing ground state properties or simulating unitary dynamics of closed systems, open quantum systems are an interesting target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-21 Hirsh Kamakari , Shi-Ning Sun , Mario Motta , Austin J. Minnich
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