Shallow shadows: Expectation estimation using low-depth random Clifford circuits

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Main Authors: Bertoni, Christian, Haferkamp, Jonas, Hinsche, Marcel, Ioannou, Marios, Eisert, Jens, Pashayan, Hakop
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author Bertoni, Christian
Haferkamp, Jonas
Hinsche, Marcel
Ioannou, Marios
Eisert, Jens
Pashayan, Hakop
author_facet Bertoni, Christian
Haferkamp, Jonas
Hinsche, Marcel
Ioannou, Marios
Eisert, Jens
Pashayan, Hakop
contents We provide practical and powerful schemes for learning many properties of an unknown n-qubit quantum state using a sparing number of copies of the state. Specifically, we present a depth-modulated randomized measurement scheme that interpolates between two known classical shadows schemes based on random Pauli measurements and random Clifford measurements. These can be seen within our scheme as the special cases of zero and infinite depth, respectively. We focus on the regime where depth scales logarithmically in n and provide evidence that this retains the desirable properties of both extremal schemes whilst, in contrast to the random Clifford scheme, also being experimentally feasible. We present methods for two key tasks; estimating expectation values of certain observables from generated classical shadows and, computing upper bounds on the depth-modulated shadow norm, thus providing rigorous guarantees on the accuracy of the output estimates. We consider observables that can be written as a linear combination of poly(n) Paulis and observables that can be written as a low bond dimension matrix product operator. For the former class of observables both tasks are solved efficiently in n. For the latter class, we do not guarantee efficiency but present a method that works in practice; by variationally computing a heralded approximate inverses of a tensor network that can then be used for efficiently executing both these tasks.
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spellingShingle Shallow shadows: Expectation estimation using low-depth random Clifford circuits
Bertoni, Christian
Haferkamp, Jonas
Hinsche, Marcel
Ioannou, Marios
Eisert, Jens
Pashayan, Hakop
Quantum Physics
Other Condensed Matter
We provide practical and powerful schemes for learning many properties of an unknown n-qubit quantum state using a sparing number of copies of the state. Specifically, we present a depth-modulated randomized measurement scheme that interpolates between two known classical shadows schemes based on random Pauli measurements and random Clifford measurements. These can be seen within our scheme as the special cases of zero and infinite depth, respectively. We focus on the regime where depth scales logarithmically in n and provide evidence that this retains the desirable properties of both extremal schemes whilst, in contrast to the random Clifford scheme, also being experimentally feasible. We present methods for two key tasks; estimating expectation values of certain observables from generated classical shadows and, computing upper bounds on the depth-modulated shadow norm, thus providing rigorous guarantees on the accuracy of the output estimates. We consider observables that can be written as a linear combination of poly(n) Paulis and observables that can be written as a low bond dimension matrix product operator. For the former class of observables both tasks are solved efficiently in n. For the latter class, we do not guarantee efficiency but present a method that works in practice; by variationally computing a heralded approximate inverses of a tensor network that can then be used for efficiently executing both these tasks.
title Shallow shadows: Expectation estimation using low-depth random Clifford circuits
topic Quantum Physics
Other Condensed Matter
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.12924