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We introduce a new tool for predicting the evolution of an option for the cases where at some specific time, there is a high-degree of uncertainty for identifying its price. We work over the special case where we can predict the evolution…

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Imaginary-time evolution (ITE) on a quantum computer is a promising formalism for obtaining the ground state of a quantum system. As a kind of it, the probabilistic ITE (PITE) takes advantage of measurements to implement the nonunitary…

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In this paper, we construct quantum circuits for the Black-Scholes equations, a cornerstone of financial modeling, based on a quantum algorithm that overcome the cure of high dimensionality. Our approach leverages the Schr\"odingerisation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Shi Jin , Zihao Tang , Xu Yin , Lei Zhang

Quantization algorithms have been successfully adopted to option pricing in finance thanks to the high convergence rate of the numerical approximation. In particular, very recently, recursive marginal quantization has been proven to be a…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2019-12-04 Giorgia Callegaro , Lucio Fiorin , Andrea Pallavicini

In this article, a compact finite difference method is proposed for pricing European and American options under jump-diffusion models. Partial integro-differential equation and linear complementary problem governing European and American…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-04-25 Kuldip Singh Patel , Mani Mehra

Classical-quantum hybrid algorithms have recently garnered significant attention, which are characterized by combining quantum and classical computing protocols to obtain readout from quantum circuits of interest. Recent progress due to…

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Many current and near-future applications of quantum computing utilise parametric families of quantum circuits and variational methods to find optimal values for these parameters. Solving a quantum computational problem with such…

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In this article we present a new approach to the numerical valuation of derivative securities. The method is based on our previous work where we formulated the theory of pricing in terms of tradables. The basic idea is to fit a finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-30 Jiri Hoogland , Dimitri Neumann

This paper studies the pricing problem in which the underlying asset follows a non-Markovian stochastic volatility model. Classical partial differential equation methods face significant challenges in this context, as the option prices…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-29 Jingtang Ma , Xianglin Wu , Wenyuan Li

Quantum dynamics for arbitrary system are traditionally realized by time evolutions of wave functions in Hilbert space and/or density operators in Liouville space. However, the traditional simulations may occasionally turn out to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-20 Gombojav O. Ariunbold

Imaginary-time evolution is fundamental for analyzing quantum many-body systems, yet classical simulation requires exponentially growing resources in both system size and evolution time. While quantum approaches reduce the system-size…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Lei Zhang , Jizhe Lai , Xian Wu , Xin Wang

As a valid tool for solving ground state problems, imaginary time evolution (ITE) is widely used in physical and chemical simulations. Different ITE-based algorithms in their quantum counterpart have recently been proposed and applied to…

A classical inventory problem is studied from the perspective of embedded options, reducing inventory-management to the design of optimal contracts for forward delivery of stock (commodity). Financial option techniques \`{a} la…

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The time-fractional Black-Scholes equation (TFBSE) is intended to price the options for which the underlying price fluctuates within a correlated fractal transmission system. Although the TFBSE is an influential approach for grasping the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Nizamudheen V , Riyasudheen TK , Noufal Asharaf , Shefeeq T

The quantum algorithms for Monte Carlo integration (QMCI), which are based on quantum amplitude estimation (QAE), speed up expected value calculation compared with classical counterparts, and have been widely investigated along with their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Koichi Miyamoto

Imaginary time evolution is a powerful tool for studying quantum systems. While it is possible to simulate with a classical computer, the time and memory requirements generally scale exponentially with the system size. Conversely, quantum…

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An efficient computational algorithm to price financial derivatives is presented. It is based on a path integral formulation of the pricing problem. It is shown how the path integral approach can be worked out in order to obtain fast and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Montagna , O. Nicrosini , N. Moreni

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) that estimate values of widely used physical quantities such as the rank, quantum entropies, the Bures fidelity and the quantum Fisher information of mixed quantum states are developed. In addition,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-17 Kok Chuan Tan , Tyler Volkoff

Solving eigenvalue problems is crucially important for both classical and quantum applications. Many well-known numerical eigensolvers have been developed, including the QR and the power methods for classical computers, as well as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Shan Jin , Shaojun Wu , Guanyu Zhou , Ying Li , Lvzhou Li , Bo Li , Xiaoting Wang

In this paper we propose an efficient method to compute the price of multi-asset American options, based on Machine Learning, Monte Carlo simulations and variance reduction technique. Specifically, the options we consider are written on a…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-12-04 Ludovic Goudenège , Andrea Molent , Antonino Zanette