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Quantum algorithms have been developed for efficiently solving linear algebra tasks. However, they generally require deep circuits and hence universal fault-tolerant quantum computers. In this work, we propose variational algorithms for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Xiaosi Xu , Jinzhao Sun , Suguru Endo , Ying Li , Simon C. Benjamin , Xiao Yuan

A number of recent studies have proposed that linear representations are appropriate for solving nonlinear dynamical systems with quantum computers, which fundamentally act linearly on a wave function in a Hilbert space. Linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Yen Ting Lin , Robert B. Lowrie , Denis Aslangil , Yiğit Subaşı , Andrew T. Sornborger

We present a simple algebraic procedure that can be applied to solve a range of quantum eigenvalue problems without the need to know the solution of the Schr\"odinger equation. The procedure, presented with a pedagogical purpose, is based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Luis de la Peña , Ana María Cetto , Andrea Valdés-Hernández

Quantum computers require quantum logic, something fundamentally different to classical Boolean logic. This difference leads to a greater efficiency of quantum computation over its classical counter-part. In this review we explain the basic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-04 Vlatko Vedral , Martin B. Plenio

We develop three new methods to implement any Linear Combination of Unitaries (LCU), a powerful quantum algorithmic tool with diverse applications. While the standard LCU procedure requires several ancilla qubits and sophisticated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 Shantanav Chakraborty

Recently, it is shown that quantum computers can be used for obtaining certain information about the solution of a linear system Ax=b exponentially faster than what is possible with classical computation. Here we first review some key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yudong Cao , Anmer Daskin , Steven Frankel , Sabre Kais

Quantum computers can execute algorithms that sometimes dramatically outperform classical computation. Undoubtedly the best-known example of this is Shor's discovery of an efficient quantum algorithm for factoring integers, whereas the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Wim van Dam , Yoshitaka Sasaki

Often the easiest way to discretize an ordinary or partial differential equation is by a rectangular numerical method, in which n basis functions are sampled at m>>n collocation points. We show how eigenvalue problems can be solved in this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Behnam Hashemi , Yuji Nakatsukasa , Lloyd N. Trefethen

A majority of numerical scientific computation relies heavily on handling and manipulating matrices, such as solving linear equations, finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors, and so on. Many quantum algorithms have been developed to advance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-10 Nhat A. Nghiem , Tzu-Chieh Wei

This survey describes probabilistic algorithms for linear algebra computations, such as factorizing matrices and solving linear systems. It focuses on techniques that have a proven track record for real-world problem instances. The paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Per-Gunnar Martinsson , Joel Tropp

We outline refined versions of two major quantum algorithms for performing principal component analysis and solving linear equations. Our methods are exponentially faster than their classical counterparts and even previous quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Nhat A. Nghiem

Quantum computing has the potential to speed up some optimization methods. One can use quantum computers to solve linear systems via Quantum Linear System Algorithms (QLSAs). QLSAs can be used as a subroutine for algorithms that require…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Zeguan Wu , Pouya Sampourmahani , Mohammadhossein Mohammadisiahroudi , Tamás Terlaky

Quantum simulation is known to be capable of simulating certain dynamical systems in continuous time -- Schrodinger's equations being the most direct and well-known -- more efficiently than classical simulation. Any linear dynamical system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Shi Jin , Nana Liu

Linear differential equations are ubiquitous in science and engineering. Quantum computers can simulate quantum systems, which are described by a restricted type of linear differential equations. Here we extend quantum simulation algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-21 Dominic W. Berry

We introduce a quantum linear system solving algorithm based on the Kaczmarz method, a widely used workhorse for large linear systems and least-squares problems that updates the solution by enforcing one equation at a time. Its simplicity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Nhat A. Nghiem , Tuan K. Do , Trung V. Phan

Transformers can learn to perform numerical computations from examples only. I study nine problems of linear algebra, from basic matrix operations to eigenvalue decomposition and inversion, and introduce and discuss four encoding schemes to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 François Charton

With the increasing popularity of quantum computing and in particular quantum annealing, there has been growing research to evaluate the meta-heuristic for various problems in linear algebra: from linear least squares to matrix and tensor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Ajinkya Borle , Samuel J. Lomonaco

We apply numerical optimization and linear algebra algorithms for classical computers to the problem of automatically synthesizing algorithms for quantum computers. Using our framework, we apply several common techniques from these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Yuxin Huang , Benjamin E. Grossman-Ponemon , David A. B. Hyde

We propose a protocol for solving systems of linear algebraic equations via quantum mechanical methods using the minimal number of qubits. We show that $(M+1)$-qubit system is enough to solve a system of $M$ equations for one of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 S. I. Doronin , E. B. Fel'dman , A. I. Zenchuk

Quantum algorithms for computational linear algebra promise up to exponential speedups for applications such as simulation and regression, making them prime candidates for hardware realization. But these algorithms execute in a model that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Charles Yuan