Abstract
Linear differential equations are ubiquitous in science and engineering. Quantum computers can simulate quantum systems, which are described by a restricted type of linear differential equations. Here we extend quantum simulation algorithms to general inhomogeneous sparse linear differential equations, which describe many classical physical systems. We examine the use of high-order methods (where the error over a time step is a high power of the size of the time step) to improve the efficiency. These provide scaling close to Δt2 in the evolution time Δt. As with other algorithms of this type, the solution is encoded in amplitudes of the quantum state, and it is possible to extract global features of the solution.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 105301 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-17 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical |
Volume | 47 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 14 Mar 2014 |
Keywords
- differential equations
- quantum algorithms PACS numbers: 03.67.Ac, 02.60.Lj
- quantum computation