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Main Authors: Kao, Yu-Ting, Chang, Yeong-Jar
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05452
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author Kao, Yu-Ting
Chang, Yeong-Jar
author_facet Kao, Yu-Ting
Chang, Yeong-Jar
contents In the pursuit of quantum advantage for financial engineering, researchers face a critical dilemma: analog rotation gates suffer from inherent 'sine-to-square' biases and error magnification, while digital arithmetic circuits (e.g., WeightedAdder) incur prohibitive quadratic complexity that exceeds NISQ capabilities. This study introduces Digital Spreading (DS), a fully digital quantum computing framework designed to resolve this trade-off. DS overcomes these limitations by utilizing a pruned Cuccaro ripple-carry architecture that avoids costly multiplication and eliminates rotation gates entirely. The proposed circuit employs integer comparison operations on superposed quantum states, mapping multi-qubit outcomes onto the probability of a single target qubit. Experiments based on a random walk model for option pricing demonstrate that DS achieves floating-point precision with a relative error as low as 0.0001%, outperforming JP Morgan's rotation-based method (1.43%), as well as ITRI's analog calibration (1.43%) and digital calibration approaches (19.14%). Overall, DS provides a compact, robust, and accurate framework for quantum weighted-average computation.
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spellingShingle A Digital Spreading Framework for Quantum Expectation Computation Without Rotation Gates or Arithmetic Circuits
Kao, Yu-Ting
Chang, Yeong-Jar
Quantum Physics
In the pursuit of quantum advantage for financial engineering, researchers face a critical dilemma: analog rotation gates suffer from inherent 'sine-to-square' biases and error magnification, while digital arithmetic circuits (e.g., WeightedAdder) incur prohibitive quadratic complexity that exceeds NISQ capabilities. This study introduces Digital Spreading (DS), a fully digital quantum computing framework designed to resolve this trade-off. DS overcomes these limitations by utilizing a pruned Cuccaro ripple-carry architecture that avoids costly multiplication and eliminates rotation gates entirely. The proposed circuit employs integer comparison operations on superposed quantum states, mapping multi-qubit outcomes onto the probability of a single target qubit. Experiments based on a random walk model for option pricing demonstrate that DS achieves floating-point precision with a relative error as low as 0.0001%, outperforming JP Morgan's rotation-based method (1.43%), as well as ITRI's analog calibration (1.43%) and digital calibration approaches (19.14%). Overall, DS provides a compact, robust, and accurate framework for quantum weighted-average computation.
title A Digital Spreading Framework for Quantum Expectation Computation Without Rotation Gates or Arithmetic Circuits
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05452