Improved convergence radius of the Fer expansion for Hermitian generators

Abstract:The Dyson series expands the propagator of a time-dependent Hamiltonian in powers of the Hamiltonian, but its truncations are in general not unitary. The Fer expansion writes the same propagator as an infinite product of matrix exponentials, each of them unitary, and its remainder decays doubly exponentially with the number of factors. Convergence, however, is guaranteed only within a finite radius: the time integral of the norm of the Hamiltonian must be smaller than $2$. This is the best value known to date. Here we improve it by about $30\%$, raising it to about $2.6058$.

arXiv:2609.28302 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2609.28302v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.28302 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)

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