Quantum-classical tradeoffs and multi-controlled quantum gate decompositions in variational algorithms

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Autori principali: Tomesh, Teague, Allen, Nicholas, Dilley, Daniel, Saleem, Zain
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author Tomesh, Teague
Allen, Nicholas
Dilley, Daniel
Saleem, Zain
author_facet Tomesh, Teague
Allen, Nicholas
Dilley, Daniel
Saleem, Zain
contents The computational capabilities of near-term quantum computers are limited by the noisy execution of gate operations and a limited number of physical qubits. Hybrid variational algorithms are well-suited to near-term quantum devices because they allow for a wide range of tradeoffs between the amount of quantum and classical resources used to solve a problem. This paper investigates tradeoffs available at both the algorithmic and hardware levels by studying a specific case -- applying the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) to instances of the Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem. We consider three variants of the QAOA which offer different tradeoffs at the algorithmic level in terms of their required number of classical parameters, quantum gates, and iterations of classical optimization needed. Since MIS is a constrained combinatorial optimization problem, the QAOA must respect the problem constraints. This can be accomplished by using many multi-controlled gate operations which must be decomposed into gates executable by the target hardware. We study the tradeoffs available at this hardware level, combining the gate fidelities and decomposition efficiencies of different native gate sets into a single metric called the gate decomposition cost.
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spellingShingle Quantum-classical tradeoffs and multi-controlled quantum gate decompositions in variational algorithms
Tomesh, Teague
Allen, Nicholas
Dilley, Daniel
Saleem, Zain
Quantum Physics
The computational capabilities of near-term quantum computers are limited by the noisy execution of gate operations and a limited number of physical qubits. Hybrid variational algorithms are well-suited to near-term quantum devices because they allow for a wide range of tradeoffs between the amount of quantum and classical resources used to solve a problem. This paper investigates tradeoffs available at both the algorithmic and hardware levels by studying a specific case -- applying the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) to instances of the Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem. We consider three variants of the QAOA which offer different tradeoffs at the algorithmic level in terms of their required number of classical parameters, quantum gates, and iterations of classical optimization needed. Since MIS is a constrained combinatorial optimization problem, the QAOA must respect the problem constraints. This can be accomplished by using many multi-controlled gate operations which must be decomposed into gates executable by the target hardware. We study the tradeoffs available at this hardware level, combining the gate fidelities and decomposition efficiencies of different native gate sets into a single metric called the gate decomposition cost.
title Quantum-classical tradeoffs and multi-controlled quantum gate decompositions in variational algorithms
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.04378