Quantum Phase Processing and its Applications in Estimating Phase and Entropies

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Main Authors: Wang, Youle, Zhang, Lei, Yu, Zhan, Wang, Xin
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author Wang, Youle
Zhang, Lei
Yu, Zhan
Wang, Xin
author_facet Wang, Youle
Zhang, Lei
Yu, Zhan
Wang, Xin
contents Quantum computing can provide speedups in solving many problems as the evolution of a quantum system is described by a unitary operator in an exponentially large Hilbert space. Such unitary operators change the phase of their eigenstates and make quantum algorithms fundamentally different from their classical counterparts. Based on this unique principle of quantum computing, we develop a new algorithmic toolbox "quantum phase processing" that can directly apply arbitrary trigonometric transformations to eigenphases of a unitary operator. The quantum phase processing circuit is constructed simply, consisting of single-qubit rotations and controlled-unitaries, typically using only one ancilla qubit. Besides the capability of phase transformation, quantum phase processing in particular can extract the eigen-information of quantum systems by simply measuring the ancilla qubit, making it naturally compatible with indirect measurement. Quantum phase processing complements another powerful framework known as quantum singular value transformation and leads to more intuitive and efficient quantum algorithms for solving problems that are particularly phase-related. As a notable application, we propose a new quantum phase estimation algorithm without quantum Fourier transform, which requires the fewest ancilla qubits and matches the best performance so far. We further exploit the power of our method by investigating a plethora of applications in Hamiltonian simulation, entanglement spectroscopy and quantum entropies estimation, demonstrating improvements or optimality for almost all cases.
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spellingShingle Quantum Phase Processing and its Applications in Estimating Phase and Entropies
Wang, Youle
Zhang, Lei
Yu, Zhan
Wang, Xin
Quantum Physics
Emerging Technologies
Mathematical Physics
Quantum computing can provide speedups in solving many problems as the evolution of a quantum system is described by a unitary operator in an exponentially large Hilbert space. Such unitary operators change the phase of their eigenstates and make quantum algorithms fundamentally different from their classical counterparts. Based on this unique principle of quantum computing, we develop a new algorithmic toolbox "quantum phase processing" that can directly apply arbitrary trigonometric transformations to eigenphases of a unitary operator. The quantum phase processing circuit is constructed simply, consisting of single-qubit rotations and controlled-unitaries, typically using only one ancilla qubit. Besides the capability of phase transformation, quantum phase processing in particular can extract the eigen-information of quantum systems by simply measuring the ancilla qubit, making it naturally compatible with indirect measurement. Quantum phase processing complements another powerful framework known as quantum singular value transformation and leads to more intuitive and efficient quantum algorithms for solving problems that are particularly phase-related. As a notable application, we propose a new quantum phase estimation algorithm without quantum Fourier transform, which requires the fewest ancilla qubits and matches the best performance so far. We further exploit the power of our method by investigating a plethora of applications in Hamiltonian simulation, entanglement spectroscopy and quantum entropies estimation, demonstrating improvements or optimality for almost all cases.
title Quantum Phase Processing and its Applications in Estimating Phase and Entropies
topic Quantum Physics
Emerging Technologies
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.14278