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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 iii Paper 324 3 a i Solution by
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Write the local Hamiltonian as . Since its terms commute, their matrix exponentials factor exactly:Each factor acts on at most two qubits and can be compiled over a fixed universal quantum gate set to operator norm error at most . The telescoping bound for products of operators then bounds the total error by the sum of the factor errors, at most . Because is polynomial in and the Solovay--Kitaev theorem gives gate count polynomial in for each fixed-dimensional factor, this is an efficient commuting local Hamiltonian simulation. Finally, the eigenvalue equation impliesso remains an eigenstate and its eigenvalue is .
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