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used to extract the answer is irrelevant. In fact, the first result was acknowledged by the<br />

authors of the papers on QFT-based digital quantum simulation [AL97, AL99]. The second<br />

relates only to the application of the simulated Hamiltonian, which is the same in DFT and<br />

QFT methods. The third, relating to control errors, will be germane to every quantum con-<br />

trol experiment, and again deals with the implementation of the Hamiltonian rather than<br />

the extraction of the result. The fourth result, acknowledging the effects of decoherence, is<br />

also certainly true in both cases.<br />

These precision limitations being as they are, there is still reason to pursue digital quan-<br />

tum simulation. For instance, in cases for which there is no good classical approximation,<br />

the limited precision of a digital quantum simulator will still be superior to classical meth-<br />

ods. In addition, analog quantum simulation is promising for systems of an intermediate<br />

size, that are too large for classical simulation, but small enough so that error correction is<br />

not essential.<br />

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