@article {2710, title = {Quantum-accelerated multilevel Monte Carlo methods for stochastic differential equations in mathematical finance}, journal = {Quantum 5, 481 (2021)}, volume = {5}, year = {2021}, month = {6/22/2021}, pages = {481}, abstract = {

Inspired by recent progress in quantum algorithms for ordinary and partial differential equations, we study quantum algorithms for stochastic differential equations (SDEs). Firstly we provide a quantum algorithm that gives a quadratic speed-up for multilevel Monte Carlo methods in a general setting. As applications, we apply it to compute expection values determined by classical solutions of SDEs, with improved dependence on precision. We demonstrate the use of this algorithm in a variety of applications arising in mathematical finance, such as the Black-Scholes and Local Volatility models, and Greeks. We also provide a quantum algorithm based on sublinear binomial sampling for the binomial option pricing model with the same improvement.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2021-06-24-481}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06283}, author = {Dong An and Noah Linden and Jin-Peng Liu and Ashley Montanaro and Changpeng Shao and Jiasu Wang} }