In a recent work,a group of researchers led by Gui-Lu Long of Tsinghua University proposed a digital quantum simulation algorithm for the dynamics of interacting quantum systems in real space.They experimentally implemented the algorithm to simulate the dynamics of two interacting fermions using a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) setup [1].
Quantum simulation [2],inspired by the development of quantum computer,is one of the blossoming sub-fields in quantum information science.Efficient simulations of many-body quantum systems are generally difficult on classical computers due to the exponential growth of the required resource with the system size,while quantum computer has been proved to provide intrinsic advantages for such simulation tasks.