Continuous-time evolution via probabilistic angle interpolation and its applications

arXiv:2604.02854 · quant-ph · Submitted 2026-04-03 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-04-03

Updated: 2026-10-19

Comments: 7+4 pages, 5+1 figures; version accepted for publication in Physical Review A

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The gist: We explore the applicability of a stochastic time-evolution algorithm based on probabilistic angle interpolation.

Abstract

We explore the applicability of a stochastic time-evolution algorithm based on probabilistic angle interpolation. To simplify the pre-processing of the algorithm, we take the continuous-time limit, thereby explicitly eliminating Trotter errors and streamlining the resource analysis. We also introduce a noise-mitigation method tailored to it. As demonstrations, we apply the algorithm to two representative problems: estimating the ground-state energy of the H 3+ molecular Hamiltonian and computing out-of-time-ordered correlators in the sparse Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev model. We evaluate the protocol's performance through numerical simulations and experiments on a trapped-ion quantum computer, Quantinuum Reimei.

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