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Quantum Information and Computation     ISSN: 1533-7146      published since 2001
Vol.12 No.11&12  November 2012

Hamiltonian simulation using linear combinations of unitary operations (pp0901-0924)
          
Andrew M. Childs and Nathan Wiebe

         
doi: https://doi.org/10.26421/QIC12.11-12-1

Abstracts: We present a new approach to simulating Hamiltonian dynamics based on implementing linear combinations of unitary operations rather than products of unitary operations. The resulting algorithm has superior performance to existing simulation algorithms based on product formulas and, most notably, scales better with the simulation error than any known Hamiltonian simulation technique. Our main tool is a general method to nearly deterministically implement linear combinations of nearby unitary operations, which we show is optimal among a large class of methods.
Key words: Quantum Simulation, Quantum Computing

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