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We introduce a randomized algorithm based on qDrift to compute Hamiltonian dynamics on digital quantum computers. We frame it as physDrift because conservation laws in physics are obeyed during evolution of arbitrary quantum states.…

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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

This work introduces a novel multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) metamodeling approach for variance function estimation. Although devising an efficient experimental design for simulation metamodeling can be elusive, the MLMC-based approach…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-22 Jingtao Zhang , Xi Chen

The Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method has proven to be an effective variance-reduction statistical method for Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) in Partial Differential Equation (PDE) models, combining model computations at different levels…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Santiago Badia , Jerrad Hampton , Javier Principe

We propose a variance reduction framework for variational inference using the Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method. Our framework is built on reparameterized gradient estimators and "recycles" parameters obtained from past update history in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-03 Masahiro Fujisawa , Issei Sato

We study a qDRIFT-type randomized method to simulate Lindblad dynamics by decomposing its generator into an ensemble of Lindbladians, $\mathcal{L} = \sum_{a \in \mathcal{A}} \mathcal{L}_a$, where each $\mathcal{L}_a$ comprises a simple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Hongrui Chen , Bowen Li , Jianfeng Lu , Lexing Ying

Hamiltonian simulation is one of the most promising paths toward quantum advantage. Most prior approaches to Hamiltonian simulation circuit synthesis focus on local rewrite rules and low-level optimizations, and give limited attention to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Mulundano Machiya , Matt Menickelly , Paul Hovland , Ji Liu

Engineering the Hamiltonian of a quantum system is fundamental to the design of quantum systems. Automating Hamiltonian design through gradient-based optimization can dramatically accelerate this process. However, computing the gradients of…

One of the open challenges in quantum computing is to find meaningful and practical methods to leverage quantum computation to accelerate classical machine learning workflows. A ubiquitous problem in machine learning workflows is sampling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Owen Lockwood , Peter Weiss , Filip Aronshtein , Guillaume Verdon

Phase estimation is a quantum algorithm for measuring the eigenvalues of a Hamiltonian. We propose and rigorously analyse a randomized phase estimation algorithm with two distinctive features. First, our algorithm has complexity independent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-09 Kianna Wan , Mario Berta , Earl T. Campbell

We develop circuit implementations for digital-level quantum Hamiltonian dynamics simulation algorithms suitable for implementation on a reconfigurable quantum computer, such as trapped ions. Our focus is on the co-design of a problem, its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-09 Yunseong Nam , Dmitri Maslov

Quantum dynamics compilation is an important task for improving quantum simulation efficiency: It aims to synthesize multi-qubit target dynamics into a circuit consisting of as few elementary gates as possible. Compared to deterministic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Yuxuan Zhang , Roeland Wiersema , Juan Carrasquilla , Lukasz Cincio , Yong Baek Kim

The quantum simulation of quantum chemistry is a promising application of quantum computers. However, for N molecular orbitals, the $\mathcal{O}(N^4)$ gate complexity of performing Hamiltonian and unitary Coupled Cluster Trotter steps makes…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Mario Motta , Erika Ye , Jarrod R. McClean , Zhendong Li , Austin J. Minnich , Ryan Babbush , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Simulating the dynamic evolutions of physical and molecular systems in a quantum computer is of fundamental interest in many applications. Its implementation requires efficient quantum simulation algorithms. The Lie-Trotter-Suzuki…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Yue Yu , Yulin Chi , Chonghao Zhai , Jieshan Huang , Qihuang Gong , Jianwei Wang

Many machine learning problems involve Monte Carlo gradient estimators. As a prominent example, we focus on Monte Carlo variational inference (MCVI) in this paper. The performance of MCVI crucially depends on the variance of its stochastic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-05 Alexander Buchholz , Florian Wenzel , Stephan Mandt

As quantum devices scale toward practical machine learning applications, the binary qubit paradigm faces expressivity and resource efficiency limitations. Multi-level quantum systems, or qudits, offer a promising alternative by harnessing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Tiago de Souza Farias , Lucas Friedrich , Jonas Maziero

Quantum computation is traditionally expressed in terms of quantum bits, or qubits. In this work, we instead consider three-level qu$trits$. Past work with qutrits has demonstrated only constant factor improvements, owing to the $\log_2(3)$…

Dynamic simulation of materials is a promising application for near-term quantum computers. Current algorithms for Hamiltonian simulation, however, produce circuits that grow in depth with increasing simulation time, limiting feasible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-10 Lindsay Bassman , Roel Van Beeumen , Ed Younis , Ethan Smith , Costin Iancu , Wibe A. de Jong

The Fermi-Hubbard model, a fundamental framework for studying strongly correlated phenomena could significantly benefit from quantum simulations when exploring non-trivial settings. However, simulating this problem requires twice as many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-05 Arian Vezvaee , Nathan Earnest-Noble , Khadijeh Najafi

The multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method has proven to be an effective variance-reduction statistical method for Uncertainty quantification in PDE models. It combines approximations at different levels of accuracy using a hierarchy of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-28 Santiago Badia , Jerrad Hampton , Javier Principe