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arxiv 2305.02710 v1 pith:CWULCV55 submitted 2023-05-04 quant-ph

Quantum Simulation for Partial Differential Equations with Physical Boundary or Interface Conditions

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This paper explores the feasibility of quantum simulation for partial differential equations (PDEs) with physical boundary or interface conditions. Semi-discretisation of such problems does not necessarily yield Hamiltonian dynamics and even alters the Hamiltonian structure of the dynamics when boundary and interface conditions are included. This seemingly intractable issue can be resolved by using a recently introduced Schr\"odingerisation method (Jin et al. 2022) -- it converts any linear PDEs and ODEs with non-Hermitian dynamics to a system of Schr\"odinger equations, via the so-called warped phase transformation that maps the equation into one higher dimension. We implement this method for several typical problems, including the linear convection equation with inflow boundary conditions and the heat equation with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. For interface problems, we study the (parabolic) Stefan problem, linear convection, and linear Liouville equations with discontinuous and even measure-valued coefficients. We perform numerical experiments to demonstrate the validity of this approach, which helps to bridge the gap between available quantum algorithms and computational models for classical and quantum dynamics with boundary and interface conditions.

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