Hardware-Efficient Hamiltonian Simulation via Trotter-Initialized Variational Optimization with Native Placement

F. S. Luiz, P. N. Ferreira, M. C. de Oliveira

Compiling time-evolution operators of the form $U(t)=e^{-iHt}$ into hardware-native gate sequences is a central bottleneck for digital quantum simulation on noisy intermediate-scal…