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Main Authors: Qian, Chen, Zhuang, Wei-Feng, Guo, Rui-Cheng, Hu, Meng-Jun, Liu, Dong E.
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Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07445
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author Qian, Chen
Zhuang, Wei-Feng
Guo, Rui-Cheng
Hu, Meng-Jun
Liu, Dong E.
author_facet Qian, Chen
Zhuang, Wei-Feng
Guo, Rui-Cheng
Hu, Meng-Jun
Liu, Dong E.
contents Variational quantum algorithms, which consist of optimal parameterized quantum circuits, are promising for demonstrating quantum advantages in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era. Apart from classical computational resources, different kinds of quantum resources have their contributions to the process of computing, such as information scrambling and entanglement. Characterizing the relation between the complexity of specific problems and quantum resources consumed by solving these problems is helpful for us to understand the structure of VQAs in the context of quantum information processing. In this work, we focus on the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA), which aims to solve combinatorial optimization problems. We study information scrambling and entanglement in QAOA circuits, respectively, and discover that for a harder problem, more quantum resource is required for the QAOA circuit to obtain the solution in most cases. We note that in the future, our results can be used to benchmark the complexity of quantum many-body problems by information scrambling or entanglement accumulation in the computing process.
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spellingShingle Information scrambling and entanglement in quantum approximate optimization algorithm circuits
Qian, Chen
Zhuang, Wei-Feng
Guo, Rui-Cheng
Hu, Meng-Jun
Liu, Dong E.
Quantum Physics
Variational quantum algorithms, which consist of optimal parameterized quantum circuits, are promising for demonstrating quantum advantages in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era. Apart from classical computational resources, different kinds of quantum resources have their contributions to the process of computing, such as information scrambling and entanglement. Characterizing the relation between the complexity of specific problems and quantum resources consumed by solving these problems is helpful for us to understand the structure of VQAs in the context of quantum information processing. In this work, we focus on the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA), which aims to solve combinatorial optimization problems. We study information scrambling and entanglement in QAOA circuits, respectively, and discover that for a harder problem, more quantum resource is required for the QAOA circuit to obtain the solution in most cases. We note that in the future, our results can be used to benchmark the complexity of quantum many-body problems by information scrambling or entanglement accumulation in the computing process.
title Information scrambling and entanglement in quantum approximate optimization algorithm circuits
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07445