scholarly journals Quantum Algorithms for Simulating the Lattice Schwinger Model

Quantum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander F. Shaw ◽  
Pavel Lougovski ◽  
Jesse R. Stryker ◽  
Nathan Wiebe

The Schwinger model (quantum electrodynamics in 1+1 dimensions) is a testbed for the study of quantum gauge field theories. We give scalable, explicit digital quantum algorithms to simulate the lattice Schwinger model in both NISQ and fault-tolerant settings. In particular, we perform a tight analysis of low-order Trotter formula simulations of the Schwinger model, using recently derived commutator bounds, and give upper bounds on the resources needed for simulations in both scenarios. In lattice units, we find a Schwinger model on N/2 physical sites with coupling constant x−1/2 and electric field cutoff x−1/2Λ can be simulated on a quantum computer for time 2xT using a number of T-gates or CNOTs in O~(N3/2T3/2xΛ) for fixed operator error. This scaling with the truncation Λ is better than that expected from algorithms such as qubitization or QDRIFT. Furthermore, we give scalable measurement schemes and algorithms to estimate observables which we cost in both the NISQ and fault-tolerant settings by assuming a simple target observable–the mean pair density. Finally, we bound the root-mean-square error in estimating this observable via simulation as a function of the diamond distance between the ideal and actual CNOT channels. This work provides a rigorous analysis of simulating the Schwinger model, while also providing benchmarks against which subsequent simulation algorithms can be tested.

Author(s):  
Priyanka Mukhopadhyay

Abstract Many quantum algorithms can be written as a composition of unitaries, some of which can be exactly synthesized by a universal fault-tolerant gate set like Clifford+T, while others can be approximately synthesized. A quantum compiler synthesizes each approximately synthesizable unitary up to some approximation error, such that the error of the overall unitary remains bounded by a certain amount. In this paper we consider the case when the errors are measured in the global phase invariant distance. Apart from deriving a relation between this distance and the Frobenius norm, we show that this distance composes. If a unitary is written as a composition (product and tensor product) of other unitaries, we derive bounds on the error of the overall unitary as a function of the errors of the composed unitaries. Our bound is better than the sum-of-error bound, derived by Bernstein- Vazirani(1997), for the operator norm. This builds the intuition that working with the global phase invariant distance might give us a lower resource count while synthesizing quantum circuits. Next we consider the following problem. Suppose we are given a decomposition of a unitary, that is, the unitary is expressed as a composition of other unitaries. We want to distribute the errors in each component such that the resource-count (specifically T-count) is optimized. We consider the specific case when the unitary can be decomposed such that the $R_z(\theta)$ gates are the only approximately synthesizable component. We prove analytically that for both the operator norm and global phase invariant distance, the error should be distributed equally among these components(given some approximations) . The optimal number of T-gates obtained by using the global phase invariant distance is less. Furthermore, for approx-QFT the error due to pruning of rotation gates is less when measured in this distance.


Author(s):  
David Amaro ◽  
Carlo Modica ◽  
Matthias Rosenkranz ◽  
Mattia Fiorentini ◽  
Marcello Benedetti ◽  
...  

Abstract Current gate-based quantum computers have the potential to provide a computational advantage if algorithms use quantum hardware efficiently. To make combinatorial optimization more efficient, we introduce the Filtering Variational Quantum Eigensolver (F-VQE) which utilizes filtering operators to achieve faster and more reliable convergence to the optimal solution. Additionally we explore the use of causal cones to reduce the number of qubits required on a quantum computer. Using random weighted MaxCut problems, we numerically analyze our methods and show that they perform better than the original VQE algorithm and the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA). We also demonstrate the experimental feasibility of our algorithms on a Honeywell trapped-ion quantum processor.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-35
Author(s):  
Adrien Suau ◽  
Gabriel Staffelbach ◽  
Henri Calandra

In the last few years, several quantum algorithms that try to address the problem of partial differential equation solving have been devised: on the one hand, “direct” quantum algorithms that aim at encoding the solution of the PDE by executing one large quantum circuit; on the other hand, variational algorithms that approximate the solution of the PDE by executing several small quantum circuits and making profit of classical optimisers. In this work, we propose an experimental study of the costs (in terms of gate number and execution time on a idealised hardware created from realistic gate data) associated with one of the “direct” quantum algorithm: the wave equation solver devised in [32]. We show that our implementation of the quantum wave equation solver agrees with the theoretical big-O complexity of the algorithm. We also explain in great detail the implementation steps and discuss some possibilities of improvements. Finally, our implementation proves experimentally that some PDE can be solved on a quantum computer, even if the direct quantum algorithm chosen will require error-corrected quantum chips, which are not believed to be available in the short-term.


Author(s):  
Weng-Long Chang ◽  
Ting-Ting Ren ◽  
Mang Feng ◽  
Shu-Chien Huang ◽  
Lai Chin Lu ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 07 (06) ◽  
pp. 1053-1203 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT RAUßENDORF

In this thesis, we describe the one-way quantum computer [Formula: see text], a scheme of universal quantum computation that consists entirely of one-qubit measurements on a highly entangled multiparticle state, i.e. the cluster state. We prove the universality of the [Formula: see text], describe the underlying computational model and demonstrate that the [Formula: see text] can be operated fault-tolerantly. In Sec. 2, we show that the [Formula: see text] can be regarded as a simulator of quantum logic networks. In this way, we prove the universality and establish the link to the network model — the common model of quantum computation. We also indicate that the description of the [Formula: see text] as a network simulator is not adequate in every respect. In Sec. 3, we derive the computational model underlying the [Formula: see text], which is very different from the quantum logic network model. The [Formula: see text] has no quantum input, no quantum output and no quantum register, and the unitary gates from some universal set are not the elementary building blocks of [Formula: see text] quantum algorithms. Further, all information that is processed with the [Formula: see text] is the outcomes of one-qubit measurements and thus processing of information exists only at the classical level. The [Formula: see text] is nevertheless quantum-mechanical, as it uses a highly entangled cluster state as the central physical resource. In Sec. 4, we show that there exist nonzero error thresholds for fault-tolerant quantum computation with the [Formula: see text]. Further, we outline the concept of checksums in the context of the [Formula: see text], which may become an element in future practical and adequate methods for fault-tolerant [Formula: see text] computation.


2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-206
Author(s):  
L. Grover ◽  
T. Rudolph

Quantum search is a technique for searching $N$ possibilities for a desired target in $O(\sqrt{N})$ steps. It has been applied in the design of quantum algorithms for several structured problems. Many of these algorithms require significant amount of quantum hardware. In this paper we propose the criterion that an algorithm which requires $O(S)$ hardware should be considered significant if it produces a speedup of better than $O\left(\sqrt{S}\right)$ over a simple quantum search algorithm. This is because a speedup of $O\left(\sqrt{S}\right)$ can be trivially obtained by dividing the search space into $S$ separate parts and handing the problem to $S$ independent processors that do a quantum search (in this paper we drop all logarithmic factors when discussing time/space complexity). Known algorithms for collision and element distinctness exactly saturate the criterion.


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (9&10) ◽  
pp. 747-765
Author(s):  
F. Orts ◽  
G. Ortega ◽  
E.M. E.M. Garzon

Despite the great interest that the scientific community has in quantum computing, the scarcity and high cost of resources prevent to advance in this field. Specifically, qubits are very expensive to build, causing the few available quantum computers are tremendously limited in their number of qubits and delaying their progress. This work presents new reversible circuits that optimize the necessary resources for the conversion of a sign binary number into two's complement of N digits. The benefits of our work are two: on the one hand, the proposed two's complement converters are fault tolerant circuits and also are more efficient in terms of resources (essentially, quantum cost, number of qubits, and T-count) than the described in the literature. On the other hand, valuable information about available converters and, what is more, quantum adders, is summarized in tables for interested researchers. The converters have been measured using robust metrics and have been compared with the state-of-the-art circuits. The code to build them in a real quantum computer is given.


1996 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. 127-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
QIAN-PING GU ◽  
SHIETUNG PENG

In this paper, we give two linear time algorithms for node-to-node fault tolerant routing problem in n-dimensional hypercubes Hn and star graphs Gn. The first algorithm, given at most n−1 arbitrary fault nodes and two non-fault nodes s and t in Hn, finds a fault-free path s→t of length at most [Formula: see text] in O(n) time, where d(s, t) is the distance between s and t. Our second algorithm, given at most n−2 fault nodes and two non-fault nodes s and t in Gn, finds a fault-free path s→t of length at most d(Gn)+3 in O(n) time, where [Formula: see text] is the diameter of Gn. When the time efficiency of finding the routing path is more important than the length of the path, the algorithms in this paper are better than the previous ones.


Quantum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 585
Author(s):  
Pavel Panteleev ◽  
Gleb Kalachev

We study the performance of medium-length quantum LDPC (QLDPC) codes in the depolarizing channel. Only degenerate codes with the maximal stabilizer weight much smaller than their minimum distance are considered. It is shown that with the help of OSD-like post-processing the performance of the standard belief propagation (BP) decoder on many QLDPC codes can be improved by several orders of magnitude. Using this new BP-OSD decoder we study the performance of several known classes of degenerate QLDPC codes including hypergraph product codes, hyperbicycle codes, homological product codes, and Haah's cubic codes. We also construct several interesting examples of short generalized bicycle codes. Some of them have an additional property that their syndromes are protected by small BCH codes, which may be useful for the fault-tolerant syndrome measurement. We also propose a new large family of QLDPC codes that contains the class of hypergraph product codes, where one of the used parity-check matrices is square. It is shown that in some cases such codes have better performance than hypergraph product codes. Finally, we demonstrate that the performance of the proposed BP-OSD decoder for some of the constructed codes is better than for a relatively large surface code decoded by a near-optimal decoder.


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