English

Deterministic Realization of Classical Dissipation on Quantum Computers

Computational Physics 2026-04-29 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

Lattice Boltzmann (LB) on quantum devices must reconcile unitary gate evolution with the dissipative \emph{collision} step. In the multiple-relaxation-time (MRT) class, we work in the common setting of \emph{modewise diagonal} moment relaxation, δmr=λrδmr\delta m_r'=\lambda_r\,\delta m_r with λr[1,1]\lambda_r\in[-1,1] (overrelaxation if λr<0\lambda_r<0). Embedding that contraction in a unitary by block encoding or a linear combination of unitaries (LCU) typically yields subunitary success probability that decays multiplicatively across modes, sites, and time, a key bottleneck for quantum LB. \emph{For the dissipative MRT block alone} we give a \emph{block-encoding-free} construction: a signed \emph{two-rail} population encoding, then a completely positive trace-preserving (CPTP) map (per-rail amplitude damping with survival λr|\lambda_r| and, if λr<0\lambda_r<0, a rail SWAP) so that, after the decode, the map agrees with classical MRT relaxation exactly (expectations of the rail number operators, common encoding--decode scale). Trace preservation gives success probability 11 for that substage. The main result is the dissipative MRT block; construction of the equilibrium moment vector~meq=Mfeqm^{\mathrm{eq}}=Mf^{\mathrm{eq}} (prescribed~feqf^{\mathrm{eq}}, host moment matrix~MM; notation as in Section~\ref{subsec:generic-mrt}), moment transforms, streaming, and boundaries are composed with it as in a standard host pipeline and lie outside the scope of the formal theorem. Hybrid and fully coherent encodings, adaptive scales, Carleman-based context, and a one-rail no-go in the same nonnegative population framework are in the main text. Audits of the open-channel map on a long LBM collide-stream simulation and on stencil-free inputs both match the target to machine precision.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2604.25429,
  title  = {Deterministic Realization of Classical Dissipation on Quantum Computers},
  author = {Muhammad Idrees Khan and Sauro Succi and Hua-Dong Yao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.25429},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

22 pages, 4 figures

R2 v1 2026-07-01T12:38:53.171Z