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Improved constant factors for qubitized Hamiltonian simulation

Aug 2026 · 0 citations · 33 references
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This work treats the Bessel tail in the Jacobi-Anger series using Kapteyn's and Watson's inequalities, thereby reducing the overhead estimates for all Hamiltonian simulation tasks on quantum computers by a factor of $\approx e/2$.

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Quantum signal processing (QSP) serves as the asymptotically optimal technique for Hamiltonian simulation on a quantum computer. By approximating the time evolution operator via the Jacobi-Anger expansion, the Hamiltonian simulation problem reduces to a problem in polynomial approximation theory: find a sufficient degree-$d$ polynomial series to approximate $e^{-i\tau x}$ on $[-1,1]$ within error $\epsilon$. While $d\in\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(\tau)$ is known to be asymptotically optimal, there exists a gap between state-of-the-art bounds and the optimal constant multiplicative factor, which is approximately equal to 1. Here, we close this gap almost entirely, to the point where possible future improvements will not be of practical significance. Our improvement resides in a careful treatment of the Bessel tail in the Jacobi-Anger series using Kapteyn's and Watson's inequalities, thereby reducing the overhead estimates for all Hamiltonian simulation tasks on quantum computers by a factor of $\approx e/2$.

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