Symplectic perspective to quantum computing for Hamiltonian systems

TL;DR

This paper introduces a symplectic framework for quantum computing applied to classical Hamiltonian systems, enabling efficient simulation and potential speed-ups by exploiting geometric and integrable structures.

Contribution

It establishes a geometric correspondence between quantum and classical dynamics, and develops methods for exponential compression and efficient quantum simulation of Hamiltonian systems.

Findings

Exact quantum-classical correspondence on Kahler manifolds

Finite-dimensional unitary evolution for integrable systems

Potential polynomial speed-up in quantum simulation

Abstract

This work develops a symplectic framework for quantum computing to be applied to classical Hamiltonian systems, exploiting the intrinsic geometric compatibility between unitary quantum evolution and symplectic phase-space dynamics in a two-fold way. The first part is devoted in establishing an exact correspondence between quantum evolution and classical Hamiltonian flow on a Kahler manifold. This correspondence enables a geometric quantization scheme that identifies a family of classical Hamiltonian systems admitting exponentially compressed quantum representations-appropriate for quantum simulation. In the second part we demonstrate that Liouville-integrable Hamiltonian dynamics induce finite-dimensional unitary evolution through action-angle variables and Koopman-von Neumann encoding. This allows efficient quantum representation and parallel evolution of large phase-space ensembles, where entangled encodings provide exponential compression in ensemble size and enable quantum speed-ups in observable estimation via amplitude estimation techniques. For non-integrable systems, Lie canonical perturbation theory is incorporated to construct near-symplectic transformations that map dynamics to approximately integrable forms, preserving unitary evolution up to a controlled error. We derive the resulting quantum computational complexity of the proposed quantum-symplectic scheme, revealing both an exponential compression in memory requirements and a potential polynomial speed-up with respect to the system size. Finally, the transport evolution equation governing the quantum phase-space observables is obtained.