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Improved Time-independent Hamiltonian Simulation

Quantum Physics 2024-10-22 v1

Abstract

We describe a simple method for simulating time-independent Hamiltonian HH that could be decomposed as H=i=1mHiH = \sum_{i=1}^m H_i where each HiH_i can be efficiently simulated. Approaches relying on product formula generally work by splitting the evolution time into segments, and approximate the evolution in each segment by the evolution of composing Hamiltonian HiH_i. This key step incur a constraint, that prohibits a (poly)logarithmic scaling on approximation error. We employ the recently introduced quantum singular value transformation framework to utilize the ability to simulate HiH_i in an alternative way, which then allows us to construct and simulate the main Hamiltonian HH with polylogarithmical scaling on the inverse of desired error, which is a major improvement with respect to product formula approaches.

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@article{arxiv.2410.15256,
  title  = {Improved Time-independent Hamiltonian Simulation},
  author = {Nhat A. Nghiem},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.15256},
  year   = {2024}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2410.14418

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