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121 Citations
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Using Quantum Computers for Quantum Simulation

  • Katherine L. Brown,
  • William J. Munro and
  • Vivien M. Kendon

15 November 2010

Numerical simulation of quantum systems is crucial to further our understanding of natural phenomena. Many systems of key interest and importance, in areas such as superconducting materials and quantum chemistry, are thought to be described by models...

(This article belongs to the Collection Quantum Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
13,270 Views
76 Pages

15 August 2019

Query complexity is a common tool for comparing quantum and classical computation, and it has produced many examples of how quantum algorithms differ from classical ones. Here we investigate in detail the role that oracles play for the advantage of q...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,742 Views
11 Pages

Supramolecular Complexes for Quantum Simulation

  • Alessandro Chiesa,
  • Paolo Santini and
  • Stefano Carretta

Simulating the evolution of quantum systems on a classical computer is a yellow very challenging task, which could be easily tackled by digital quantum simulators. These are intrinsically quantum devices whose parameters can be controlled in order to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecules in Quantum Information)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
771 Views
24 Pages

25 April 2026

Programmable quantum simulators based on Rydberg atom arrays provide a versatile platform for data-driven quantum simulation of strongly correlated systems, combinatorial optimization problems, and artificial quantum materials. In this review, we pre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Material Design, Discovery, and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,676 Views
21 Pages

8 May 2024

Quantum simulation qubit models of electronic Hamiltonians rely on specific transformations in order to take into account the fermionic permutation properties of electrons. These transformations (principally the Jordan–Wigner transformation (JW...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,408 Views
20 Pages

Functional Matrices on Quantum Computing Simulation

  • Hernán Indíbil de la Cruz Calvo,
  • Fernando Cuartero Gómez,
  • José Javier Paulet González,
  • Mauro Mezzini and
  • Fernando López Pelayo

31 August 2023

In simulating Quantum Computing by using the circuit model the size of the matrices to deal with, together with the number of products and additions required to apply every quantum gate becomes a really hard computational restriction. This paper pres...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,842 Views
39 Pages

Simulation of Nuclear Quantum Effects in Condensed Matter Systems via Quantum Baths

  • Simon Huppert,
  • Thomas Plé,
  • Sara Bonella,
  • Philippe Depondt and
  • Fabio Finocchi

9 May 2022

This paper reviews methods that aim at simulating nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) using generalized thermal baths. Generalized (or quantum) baths simulate statistical quantum features, and in particular zero-point energy effects, through non-Markovian...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Simulation of Quantum and Classical Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,192 Views
26 Pages

11 July 2024

Quantum computing is an exciting field that uses quantum principles, such as quantum superposition and entanglement, to tackle complex computational problems. Superconducting quantum circuits, based on Josephson junctions, is one of the most promisin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Computing in the NISQ Era)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
109,902 Views
26 Pages

The Self-Simulation Hypothesis Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

  • Klee Irwin,
  • Marcelo Amaral and
  • David Chester

21 February 2020

We modify the simulation hypothesis to a self-simulation hypothesis, where the physical universe, as a strange loop, is a mental self-simulation that might exist as one of a broad class of possible code theoretic quantum gravity models of reality obe...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,721 Views
21 Pages

28 January 2026

We present hybrid quantum–classical algorithms to compute time-dependent Møller wavepacket correlation functions via digital quantum simulation. Reactant and product channel wavepackets are encoded as qubit states, evolved under a discre...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,476 Views
11 Pages

Digital Quantum Simulation and Circuit Learning for the Generation of Coherent States

  • Ruilin Liu,
  • Sebastián V. Romero,
  • Izaskun Oregi,
  • Eneko Osaba and ,
  • Esther Villar-Rodriguez and
  • Yue Ban
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 October 2022

Coherent states, known as displaced vacuum states, play an important role in quantum information processing, quantum machine learning, and quantum optics. In this article, two ways to digitally prepare coherent states in quantum circuits are introduc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Control and Quantum Computing)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,390 Views
17 Pages

Quantum Simulation of Fractal Fracture in Amorphous Silica

  • Rachel M. Morin,
  • Nicholas A. Mecholsky and
  • John J. Mecholsky

27 July 2025

In order to design new materials at atomic-length scales, there is a need to connect the fractal nature of fracture surfaces at the atomic scale using quantum mechanics modeling with that of the experimental data of fracture surfaces at macroscopic-l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fatigue Damage, Fracture Mechanics of Structures and Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,970 Views
19 Pages

15 December 2021

We propose quantum simulations of 1 + 1D radial sections of different black hole spacetimes (Schwarzschild, Reissner–Nordstrøm, Kerr and Kerr–Newman), by means of a dc-SQUID array embedded on an open transmission line. This was ach...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analogue Gravity)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,514 Views
14 Pages

Quantum JIDOKA. Integration of Quantum Simulation on a CNC Machine for In–Process Control Visualization

  • Javier Villalba-Diez,
  • Miguel Gutierrez,
  • Mercedes Grijalvo Martín,
  • Tomas Sterkenburgh and ,
  • Juan Carlos Losada and
  • Rosa María Benito
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 July 2021

With the advent of the Industry 4.0 paradigm, the possibilities of controlling manufacturing processes through the information provided by a network of sensors connected to work centers have expanded. Real-time monitoring of each parameter makes it p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue JIDOKA. Integration of Human and AI within Industry 4.0 Cyber Physical Manufacturing Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,494 Views
14 Pages

Quantum Transport Simulation of High-Power 4.6-μm Quantum Cascade Lasers

  • Olafur Jonasson,
  • Song Mei,
  • Farhad Karimi,
  • Jeremy Kirch and ,
  • Dan Botez,
  • Luke Mawst and
  • Irena Knezevic
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

We present a quantum transport simulation of a 4.6- μ m quantum cascade laser (QCL) operating at high power near room temperature. The simulation is based on a rigorous density-matrix-based formalism, in which the evolution of the single-electron...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Cascade Lasers - Advances and New Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,089 Views
13 Pages

4 March 2020

We provide a recipe for the digitalization of linear and nonlinear quantum optics in networks of superconducting qubits. By combining digital techniques with boson-qubit mappings, we address relevant problems that are typically considered in analog s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,458 Views
15 Pages

13 April 2026

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE), as one of the most promising quantum algorithms in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era, exhibits unique advantages in quantum chemistry simulations. It provides a novel approach to solving molecu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Algorithms and Quantum Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,803 Views
21 Pages

Quantum Photonic Simulation of Spin-Magnetic Field Coupling and Atom-Optical Field Interaction

  • Jesús Liñares,
  • Xesús Prieto-Blanco,
  • Gabriel M. Carral and
  • María C. Nistal

10 December 2020

In this work, we present the physical simulation of the dynamical and topological properties of atom-field quantum interacting systems by means of integrated quantum photonic devices. In particular, we simulate mechanical systems used, for example, f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Basics and Applications in Quantum Optics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,378 Views
19 Pages

13 May 2025

Quantum computing, leveraging principles of quantum mechanics, represents a transformative approach in computational methodologies, offering significant enhancements over traditional classical systems. This study tackles the complex and computational...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI Facilitated Cyber–Physical Energy Systems—Planning, Operation, and Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,192 Views
10 Pages

19 October 2020

Geometric phases are used to construct quantum gates since it naturally resists local noises, acting as the modularized units of geometric quantum computing. Meanwhile, fast nonadiabatic geometric gates are required for reducing the information loss...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Shortcuts to Adiabaticity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,833 Views
14 Pages

24 June 2022

Non-Hermitian (NH) quantum theory has been attracting increased research interest due to its featured properties, novel phenomena, and links to open and dissipative systems. Typical NH systems include PT-symmetric systems, pseudo-Hermitian systems, a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Computing for Complex Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,055 Views
17 Pages

The ground-state phase diagrams of 4 He adsorbed on graphene and graphite are calculated using quantum simulation methods. In this work, a systematic investigation of the approximations used in such simulations is carried out. Particular focus...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Crystals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,270 Views
23 Pages

7 February 2020

To simplify the design and optimization of new-generation nanomaterials and related electronic and optoelectronic quantum devices, energy dissipation versus decoherence phenomena are often simulated via local models based on the Wigner-function forma...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
10,040 Views
31 Pages

Ordering of Trotterization: Impact on Errors in Quantum Simulation of Electronic Structure

  • Andrew Tranter,
  • Peter J. Love,
  • Florian Mintert,
  • Nathan Wiebe and
  • Peter V. Coveney

13 December 2019

Trotter–Suzuki decompositions are frequently used in the quantum simulation of quantum chemistry. They transform the evolution operator into a form implementable on a quantum device, while incurring an error—the Trotter error. The Trotter...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,637 Views
17 Pages

Efficient Quantum Simulation of an Anti-P-Pseudo-Hermitian Two-Level System

  • Chao Zheng,
  • Jin Tian,
  • Daili Li,
  • Jingwei Wen and ,
  • Shijie Wei and
  • Yansong Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 July 2020

Besides Hermitian systems, quantum simulation has become a strong tool to investigate non-Hermitian systems, such as PT-symmetric, anti-PT-symmetric, and pseudo-Hermitian systems. In this work, we theoretically investigate quantum simulation of an an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Information Processing)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,665 Views
10 Pages

Quantum-cutting luminescent solar concentrators (QC-LSCs) have great potential to serve as large-area solar windows. These QC nanocrystals can realize a photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) of as high as 200% with virtually zero self-absorption los...

(This article belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,886 Views
35 Pages

Digital Quantum Simulation of Scalar Yukawa Coupling

  • Thierry N. Kaldenbach,
  • Matthias Heller,
  • Gernot Alber and
  • Vladimir M. Stojanović

18 July 2024

Motivated by the revitalized interest in the digital simulation of medium- and high-energy physics phenomena, we investigate the dynamics following a Yukawa interaction quench on IBM Q. Adopting the zero-dimensional version of the scalar Yukawa coupl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exclusive Feature Papers of Quantum Reports in 2024–2025)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,524 Views
27 Pages

HybriD-GM: A Framework for Quantum Computing Simulation Targeted to Hybrid Parallel Architectures

  • Anderson Avila,
  • Helida Santos,
  • Anderson Cruz,
  • Samuel Xavier-de-Souza and ,
  • Giancarlo Lucca,
  • Bruno Moura,
  • Adenauer Yamin and
  • Renata Reiser
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

14 March 2023

This paper presents the HybriD-GM model conception, from modeling to consolidation. The D-GM environment is also extended, providing efficient parallel executions for quantum computing simulations, targeted to hybrid architectures considering the CPU...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Control and Quantum Computing)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,898 Views
27 Pages

17 August 2022

We present a comprehensive simulation study of the Newtonian and quantum model of a Stern–Gerlach experiment with cold neutrons. By solving Newton’s equation of motion and the time-dependent Pauli equation for a wide range of uniform magn...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Completeness of Quantum Theory: Still an Open Question)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,403 Views
15 Pages

24 September 2025

This paper makes two distinct contributions to the security and federated learning communities. First, we identify and empirically demonstrate a critical vulnerability in Krum, a widely deployed Byzantine-resilient aggregation algorithm, showing cata...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,283 Views
30 Pages

The simulation of multidimensional wave propagation with variable material parameters is a computationally intensive task, with applications from seismology to electromagnetics. While quantum computers offer a promising path forward, their algorithms...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,288 Views
15 Pages

Single Sr Atoms in Optical Tweezer Arrays for Quantum Simulation

  • Veronica Giardini,
  • Luca Guariento,
  • Andrea Fantini,
  • Shawn Storm and ,
  • Massimo Inguscio,
  • Jacopo Catani,
  • Giacomo Cappellini,
  • Vladislav Gavryusev and
  • Leonardo Fallani
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

19 December 2025

We report on the realization of a platform for trapping and manipulating individual 88Sr atoms in optical tweezers. A first cooling stage based on a blue shielded magneto-optical trap (MOT) operating on the |1S0⟩→|1P1⟩ transition a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
743 Views
29 Pages

Precision-Elastic Persistent Stochastic Execution for Quantum Circuit Simulation

  • Naoya Onizawa,
  • Martin Lukac,
  • Shinobu Nagayama and
  • Takahiro Hanyu

1 August 2026

Quantum circuit simulation is usually evaluated through final numerical accuracy, while the dynamics of stochastic execution itself are less explicitly characterized. This work presents a precision-elastic persistent stochastic execution framework ba...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Computation, Quantum AI, and Quantum Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,959 Views
21 Pages

We present a scalable and resource-aware framework for the quantum simulation of large proteins, grounded in systematic molecular fragmentation, analytical Toffoli gate modeling, and empirical validation. The ground-state energy of a target biomolecu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Quantum Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,068 Views
19 Pages

4 April 2019

The differential evolutionary ( D E ) algorithm is a global optimization algorithm. To explore the convergence implied in the H i l b e r t space with the parameter β of the D E algorithm and the quantum properties of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolutionary Computation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,187 Views
10 Pages

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Transport Mechanism of Graphene Quantum Dots through Different Cell Membranes

  • Pengzhen Zhang,
  • Fangfang Jiao,
  • Lingxiao Wu,
  • Zhe Kong and ,
  • Wei Hu,
  • Lijun Liang and
  • Yongjun Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Exploring the mechanisms underlying the permeation of graphene quantum dots (GQDs) through different cell membranes is key for the practical application of GQDs in medicine. Here, the permeation process of GQDs through different lipid membranes was e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular Dynamics Simulations in Biological Membrane Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,659 Views
14 Pages

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of the Interaction between Graphene Oxide Quantum Dots and DNA Fragment

  • Lingxiao Wu,
  • Pengzhen Zhang,
  • Hanxing Zhou,
  • Jing Li and ,
  • Xin Shen,
  • Tianyu Li,
  • Zhe Kong,
  • Wei Hu and
  • Yongjun Zhang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

29 November 2022

Due to their excellent physical properties, graphene oxide quantum dots (GOQDs) are widely used in various fields, especially biomedicine. However, due to the short study period, their biosafety and potential genotoxicity to human and animal cells ar...

(This article belongs to the Section Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,658 Views
17 Pages

7 August 2025

Accurate determination of the quantum yield (Φf) in scattering media is essential for numerous scientific and industrial applications, but it remains challenging due to re-absorption and scattering-induced biases. In this study, we present a GPU-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Materials Physics (2nd Edition))
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,538 Views
21 Pages

21 August 2018

We construct a class of variational methods for the study of open quantum systems based on Gaussian ansatzes for the quantum trajectory formalism. Gaussianity in the conjugate position and momentum quadratures is distinguished from Gaussianity in den...

(This article belongs to the Section Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences)
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  • Open Access
835 Views
40 Pages

10 April 2026

Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) artifacts are one to three orders of magnitude larger than their classical counterparts and must be segmented via ISO-TP across a shared CAN-FD bus while coexisting with periodic safety-critical traffic. No prior work...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Security: Threats and Attacks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,717 Views
10 Pages

Dynamical Localization Simulated on Actual Quantum Hardware

  • Andrea Pizzamiglio,
  • Su Yeon Chang,
  • Maria Bondani,
  • Simone Montangero and ,
  • Dario Gerace and
  • Giuliano Benenti
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 May 2021

Quantum computers are invaluable tools to explore the properties of complex quantum systems. We show that dynamical localization of the quantum sawtooth map, a highly sensitive quantum coherent phenomenon, can be simulated on actual, small-scale quan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Information and Quantum Optics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,305 Views
13 Pages

A quantum Pauli noise is a nonunitary process that alters the state of a qubit by random application of the four Pauli operators. We investigate a four-qubit quantum circuit, consisting of a pipeline of three independently controlled Pauli gates, for...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,804 Views
21 Pages

This study presents a SCAPS-1D-based numerical optimization of an organic ultraviolet (UV) photodetector employing an FTO/PTB7/Spiro-OMeTAD/Au device architecture. The novelty of this work lies in a simulation-guided, UV-specific optimization strateg...

(This article belongs to the Section Nanoelectronics, Nanosensors and Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,580 Views
13 Pages

Effect of Quantum Dot-Based Remote Lenses on the Emission Properties of White LED Lighting Studied by Optical Simulation and Experiment

  • Sung Min Park,
  • Eunki Baek,
  • Sohee Kim,
  • Jaehyeong Yoo and ,
  • Sung-Yoon Joe,
  • Jae-Hyeon Ko,
  • Taehee Park and
  • Young Wook Ko
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

The introduction of side-emitting lenses into white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) has enabled thin panel lighting technology based on LED technology, but also presents the disadvantage of low color rendering due to insufficient red components in the s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Ceramics, 3rd Edition)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,463 Views
7 Pages

The objective of this article is to present a simulation of quantum information. We take advantage of quantum entanglement to ensure the spontaneous transfer of a state from one qubit to another similar qubit. Similarly, the principle of quantum tele...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 3rd International Day on Computer Science and Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,419 Views
16 Pages

11 May 2022

In this article, ultrascaled junctionless (JL) field-effect phototransistors based on carbon nanotube/nanoribbons with sub-10 nm photogate lengths were computationally assessed using a rigorous quantum simulation. This latter self-consistently solves...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electronic Nanodevices)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,805 Views
6 Pages

Digital Quantum Simulations of Spin Models on Hybrid Platform and Near-Term Quantum Processors

  • Francesco Tacchino,
  • Alessandro Chiesa,
  • Matthew D. LaHaye,
  • Ivano Tavernelli and ,
  • Stefano Carretta and
  • Dario Gerace
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Digital quantum simulators are among the most appealing applications. [...]

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 11th Italian Quantum Information Science conference (IQIS2018))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
465 Views
27 Pages

14 August 2026

In this work, we benchmark two prominent quantum algorithms: Quantum Imaginary-Time Evolution (QITE) and the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) for obtaining the ground state of Ising-type Hamiltonians. Specifically, we apply them to t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Computing in the NISQ Era, Second Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
13,602 Views
38 Pages

Large-Scale Simulation of Shor’s Quantum Factoring Algorithm

  • Dennis Willsch,
  • Madita Willsch,
  • Fengping Jin,
  • Hans De Raedt and
  • Kristel Michielsen

9 October 2023

Shor’s factoring algorithm is one of the most anticipated applications of quantum computing. However, the limited capabilities of today’s quantum computers only permit a study of Shor’s algorithm for very small numbers. Here, we sho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Perspectives on Quantum Computing and Communication)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,554 Views
20 Pages

A Cost-Efficient Approach towards Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations on Quantum Devices

  • Szabolcs Jóczik,
  • Zoltán Zimborás,
  • Tamás Majoros and
  • Attila Kiss

10 March 2022

Numerical simulations of physical systems are found in many industries, as they currently play a crucial role in product development. There are many numerical methods for solving differential equations that describe the underlying physics behind the...

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