Trotterization with Many-body Coulomb Interactions: Convergence for General Initial Conditions and State-Dependent Improvements

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07704v1
• Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:47:15 GMT
• Title: Trotterization with Many-body Coulomb Interactions: Convergence for General Initial Conditions and State-Dependent Improvements
• Abstract summary: Efficiently simulating many-body quantum systems with Coulomb interactions is a fundamental question in quantum physics, quantum chemistry, and quantum computing.<n>In this work, we establish rigorous error bounds for Trotter applied to many-body quantum systems with Coulomb interactions.
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• Abstract: Efficiently simulating many-body quantum systems with Coulomb interactions is a fundamental question in quantum physics, quantum chemistry, and quantum computing, yet it presents unique challenges: the Hamiltonian is an unbounded operator (both kinetic and potential parts are unbounded); its Hilbert space dimension grows exponentially with particle number; and the Coulomb potential is singular, long-ranged, non-smooth, and unbounded, violating the regularity assumptions of many prior state-of-the-art many-body simulation analyses. In this work, we establish rigorous error bounds for Trotter formulas applied to many-body quantum systems with Coulomb interactions. Our first main result shows that for general initial conditions in the domain of the Hamiltonian, second-order Trotter achieves a sharp $1/4$ convergence rate with explicit polynomial dependence of the error prefactor on the particle number. The polynomial dependence on system size suggests that the algorithm remains quantumly efficient, even without introducing any regularization of the Coulomb singularity. Notably, although the result under general conditions constitutes a worst-case bound, this rate has been observed in prior work for the hydrogen ground state, demonstrating its relevance to physically and practically important initial conditions. Our second main result identifies a set of physically meaningful conditions on the initial state under which the convergence rate improves to first and second order. For hydrogenic systems, these conditions are connected to excited states with sufficiently high angular momentum. Our theoretical findings are consistent with prior numerical observations.

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