Benchmarking highly entangled states on a 60-atom analog quantum simulator

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Main Authors: Shaw, Adam L., Chen, Zhuo, Choi, Joonhee, Mark, Daniel K., Scholl, Pascal, Finkelstein, Ran, Elben, Andreas, Choi, Soonwon, Endres, Manuel
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Published: 2023
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author Shaw, Adam L.
Chen, Zhuo
Choi, Joonhee
Mark, Daniel K.
Scholl, Pascal
Finkelstein, Ran
Elben, Andreas
Choi, Soonwon
Endres, Manuel
author_facet Shaw, Adam L.
Chen, Zhuo
Choi, Joonhee
Mark, Daniel K.
Scholl, Pascal
Finkelstein, Ran
Elben, Andreas
Choi, Soonwon
Endres, Manuel
contents Quantum systems have entered a competitive regime where classical computers must make approximations to represent highly entangled quantum states. However, in this beyond-classically-exact regime, fidelity comparisons between quantum and classical systems have so far been limited to digital quantum devices, and it remains unsolved how to estimate the actual entanglement content of experiments. Here we perform fidelity benchmarking and mixed-state entanglement estimation with a 60-atom analog Rydberg quantum simulator, reaching a high entanglement entropy regime where exact classical simulation becomes impractical. Our benchmarking protocol involves extrapolation from comparisons against an approximate classical algorithm, introduced here, with varying entanglement limits. We then develop and demonstrate an estimator of the experimental mixed-state entanglement, finding our experiment is competitive with state-of-the-art digital quantum devices performing random circuit evolution. Finally, we compare the experimental fidelity against that achieved by various approximate classical algorithms, and find that only the algorithm we introduce is able to keep pace with the experiment on the classical hardware we employ. Our results enable a new paradigm for evaluating the ability of both analog and digital quantum devices to generate entanglement in the beyond-classically-exact regime, and highlight the evolving divide between quantum and classical systems.
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spellingShingle Benchmarking highly entangled states on a 60-atom analog quantum simulator
Shaw, Adam L.
Chen, Zhuo
Choi, Joonhee
Mark, Daniel K.
Scholl, Pascal
Finkelstein, Ran
Elben, Andreas
Choi, Soonwon
Endres, Manuel
Quantum Physics
Atomic Physics
Quantum systems have entered a competitive regime where classical computers must make approximations to represent highly entangled quantum states. However, in this beyond-classically-exact regime, fidelity comparisons between quantum and classical systems have so far been limited to digital quantum devices, and it remains unsolved how to estimate the actual entanglement content of experiments. Here we perform fidelity benchmarking and mixed-state entanglement estimation with a 60-atom analog Rydberg quantum simulator, reaching a high entanglement entropy regime where exact classical simulation becomes impractical. Our benchmarking protocol involves extrapolation from comparisons against an approximate classical algorithm, introduced here, with varying entanglement limits. We then develop and demonstrate an estimator of the experimental mixed-state entanglement, finding our experiment is competitive with state-of-the-art digital quantum devices performing random circuit evolution. Finally, we compare the experimental fidelity against that achieved by various approximate classical algorithms, and find that only the algorithm we introduce is able to keep pace with the experiment on the classical hardware we employ. Our results enable a new paradigm for evaluating the ability of both analog and digital quantum devices to generate entanglement in the beyond-classically-exact regime, and highlight the evolving divide between quantum and classical systems.
title Benchmarking highly entangled states on a 60-atom analog quantum simulator
topic Quantum Physics
Atomic Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07914