Practical Black Box Hamiltonian Learning

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Main Authors: Gu, Andi, Cincio, Lukasz, Coles, Patrick J.
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author Gu, Andi
Cincio, Lukasz
Coles, Patrick J.
author_facet Gu, Andi
Cincio, Lukasz
Coles, Patrick J.
contents We study the problem of learning the parameters for the Hamiltonian of a quantum many-body system, given limited access to the system. In this work, we build upon recent approaches to Hamiltonian learning via derivative estimation. We propose a protocol that improves the scaling dependence of prior works, particularly with respect to parameters relating to the structure of the Hamiltonian (e.g., its locality $k$). Furthermore, by deriving exact bounds on the performance of our protocol, we are able to provide a precise numerical prescription for theoretically optimal settings of hyperparameters in our learning protocol, such as the maximum evolution time (when learning with unitary dynamics) or minimum temperature (when learning with Gibbs states). Thanks to these improvements, our protocol is practical for large problems: we demonstrate this with a numerical simulation of our protocol on an 80-qubit system.
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spellingShingle Practical Black Box Hamiltonian Learning
Gu, Andi
Cincio, Lukasz
Coles, Patrick J.
Quantum Physics
Machine Learning
We study the problem of learning the parameters for the Hamiltonian of a quantum many-body system, given limited access to the system. In this work, we build upon recent approaches to Hamiltonian learning via derivative estimation. We propose a protocol that improves the scaling dependence of prior works, particularly with respect to parameters relating to the structure of the Hamiltonian (e.g., its locality $k$). Furthermore, by deriving exact bounds on the performance of our protocol, we are able to provide a precise numerical prescription for theoretically optimal settings of hyperparameters in our learning protocol, such as the maximum evolution time (when learning with unitary dynamics) or minimum temperature (when learning with Gibbs states). Thanks to these improvements, our protocol is practical for large problems: we demonstrate this with a numerical simulation of our protocol on an 80-qubit system.
title Practical Black Box Hamiltonian Learning
topic Quantum Physics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.15464