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Universal Quantum Simulators
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Feynman's 1982 conjecture, that quantum computers can be programmed to simulate any local quantum system, is shown to be correct.
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“The algorithm runs in time polynomial in the size of the system being simulated (the number of qubits) and the desired evolution time, giving an exponential speedup over the best general classical algorithms known.”
From Quantum algorithms: an overview (2016) · cites this paper as [44]
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“A general-purpose quantum computer can indeed ef fi ciently simulate quantum mechanics in this sense for many physically realistic cases, such as systems with locality restrictions on their interactions. 44”
From Quantum algorithms: an overview (2016) · cites this paper as [44]
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“It is noteworthy that we can program quantum computers to simulate localized quantum systems [68].”
From Quantum Computing in the Next-Generation Computational Biology Landscape: From Protein Folding to Molecular Dynamics (2024) · cites this paper as [68]
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“With this universal approach, a wide range of quantum problems can be simulated to the desired accuracy with a polynomial increase in quantum resources only (Lloyd, 1996).”
From Noisy intermediate-scale quantum algorithms (2022) · cites this paper as Lloyd, 1996
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“The belief in this quantum approach was indeed supported in the 90's by the first efficient quantum algorithms [316], which were rapidly followed by breakthrough discoveries applicable to quantum chemistry [3,624]”
From Photonic quantum information processing: a review (2019) · cites this paper as [3]
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“The quantum computational cost of these algorithms has continued to be reduced 47-50 .”
From Quantum Chemistry in the Age of Quantum Computing (2019) · cites this paper as [50]
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“Later, it was also demonstrated that the Trotter errors depend on the maximum nuclear charge rather than the number of spin-orbitals 50 .”
From Quantum Chemistry in the Age of Quantum Computing (2019) · cites this paper as [50]
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“In the general case, it would require a number of elementary gates of 2 20 ≃ 10 6 [2]. With our method, the number of gates can be as small as 10 per Trotter step, consisting of Mølmer-Sørensen gates (dark blue and green), local exp( iφ ′ σ y 2 ) gates (red), exp[ ± i ( π/ 4) ∑ i σ y i ] (yellow) and exp[ ± i ( π/ 4) ∑ i σ x i ] (cyan) gates (see Fig. 1b) [35].”
From Quantum Simulation of Interacting Fermion Lattice Models in Trapped Ions (2012) · cites this paper as [2]
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“We map products of fermionic operators onto nonlocal spin operators and decompose the resulting dynamics in efficient steps with Trotter methods, yielding an overall protocol that employs only polynomial resources.”
From Quantum Simulation of Interacting Fermion Lattice Models in Trapped Ions (2012) · cites this paper as [2]
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“Note that for bounded Hamiltonians, the Trotter expansion associated with the exponential of the polynomial sum of efficiently implementable nonlocal terms is also efficient [2, 29, 30], i.e., it only requires polynomial resources [35].”
From Quantum Simulation of Interacting Fermion Lattice Models in Trapped Ions (2012) · cites this paper as [2]
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“On a fault-tolerant computer, one may directly measure the full-CI energy by first preparing a wave function ansatz on the quantum hardware (as in VQE) and then applying the Quantum Phase Estimation algorithm, which projects a prepared state into an energy eigenstate of the Hamiltonian.[111,[132][133][134][135][136]”
From Quantum Computing for Molecular Biology** (2023) · cites this paper as [111]
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“A proposed solution is to use highly controlled laboratory quantum systems themselves to perform such simulations [1-3].”
From Quantum Simulation of the Klein Paradox with Trapped Ions (2011) · cites this paper as [2]
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“Simulating quantum mechanics using conventional computers rapidly becomes intractable as the physical systems to which it is applied grow larger.”
From Quantum Simulation of the Klein Paradox with Trapped Ions (2011) · cites this paper as [2]
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“Indeed, this fact is related to correlation and entanglement spreading according to the Lieb-Robinson theorem that states that, after a sufficiently large time, states can become strongly entangled ([91-96], see also [97]).”
From Can one trust quantum simulators? (2012) · cites this paper as [96]
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“or that the quantum dynamics is in general computationally hard [96, 97].”
From Can one trust quantum simulators? (2012) · cites this paper as [96]
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Biamonte, J., Wittek, P., Pancotti, N., Rebentrost, P., Wiebe, N., & Lloyd, S. (2017) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature23474 · Cited by 4,779
“see that the density matrix for the quantum version of the data is the covariance matrix, up to an overall factor. Repeatedly sampling the data, and using a trick called density matrix exponentiation [42] combined with the quantum phase estimation algorithm [39], which nds eigenvectors and eigenvalues of matrices, all…”
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Cerezo, M., Arrasmith, A., Babbush, R., Benjamin, S. C., Endo, S., Fujii, K., McClean, J. R., Mitarai, K., Yuan, X., Cincio, L., et al. (2021) · Nature Reviews Physics · doi:10.1038/s42254-021-00348-9 · Cited by 3,385
“Shor’s quantum algorithm was proposed to factor numbers with exponential speedup over classical methods [2], dynamical quantum simulation algorithms were developed [3], and quantum algorithms for solving linear systems of equations were identified [4].”
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- Authors
- Lloyd, S.
- Affiliations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lloyd, Seth
- ORCID
- Lloyd, Seth
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1996-08-23
- Volume
- 273
- Issue
- 5278
- Pages
- 1073-1078
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2040792108
- Cited by
- 3,088
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
- 2026: 183 · 2025: 317 · 2024: 287 · 2023: 268 · 2022: 221 · 2021: 251 · 2020: 208 · 2019: 150 · 2018: 117 · 2017: 134 · 2016: 104 · 2015: 82 · 2014: 97 · 2013: 72 · 2012: 75
- FWCI
- 30.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum many-body systems
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Keywords
- quantum simulation, quantum computing hardware, quantum computing
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