A protocol to characterize errors in quantum simulation of many-body physics

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Prakash, Aditya, Madhusudhana, Bharath Hebbe
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866915022506033152
author Prakash, Aditya
Madhusudhana, Bharath Hebbe
author_facet Prakash, Aditya
Madhusudhana, Bharath Hebbe
contents Quantum simulation of many-body systems, particularly using ultracold atoms and trapped ions, presents a unique form of quantum control -- it is a direct implementation of a multi-qubit gate generated by the Hamiltonian. As a consequence, it also faces a unique challenge in terms of benchmarking, because the well-established gate benchmarking techniques are unsuitable for this form of quantum control. Here we show that the symmetries of the target many-body Hamiltonian can be used to benchmark and characterize experimental errors in the quantum simulation. We consider two forms of errors: (i) unitary errors arising out of systematic errors in the applied Hamiltonian and (ii) canonical non-Markovian errors arising out of random shot-to-shot fluctuations in the applied Hamiltonian. We show that the dynamics of the expectation value of the target Hamiltonian itself, which is ideally constant in time, can be used to characterize these errors. In the presence of errors, the expectation value of the target Hamiltonian shows a characteristic thermalization dynamics, when it satisfies the operator thermalization hypothesis (OTH). That is, an oscillation in the short time followed by relaxation to a steady-state value in the long time limit. We show that while the steady-state value can be used to characterize the coherent errors, the amplitude of the oscillations can be used to estimate the non-Markovian errors. We develop scalable experimental protocols to characterize these errors.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2311_03452
institution arXiv
publishDate 2023
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle A protocol to characterize errors in quantum simulation of many-body physics
Prakash, Aditya
Madhusudhana, Bharath Hebbe
Quantum Gases
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Quantum Physics
Quantum simulation of many-body systems, particularly using ultracold atoms and trapped ions, presents a unique form of quantum control -- it is a direct implementation of a multi-qubit gate generated by the Hamiltonian. As a consequence, it also faces a unique challenge in terms of benchmarking, because the well-established gate benchmarking techniques are unsuitable for this form of quantum control. Here we show that the symmetries of the target many-body Hamiltonian can be used to benchmark and characterize experimental errors in the quantum simulation. We consider two forms of errors: (i) unitary errors arising out of systematic errors in the applied Hamiltonian and (ii) canonical non-Markovian errors arising out of random shot-to-shot fluctuations in the applied Hamiltonian. We show that the dynamics of the expectation value of the target Hamiltonian itself, which is ideally constant in time, can be used to characterize these errors. In the presence of errors, the expectation value of the target Hamiltonian shows a characteristic thermalization dynamics, when it satisfies the operator thermalization hypothesis (OTH). That is, an oscillation in the short time followed by relaxation to a steady-state value in the long time limit. We show that while the steady-state value can be used to characterize the coherent errors, the amplitude of the oscillations can be used to estimate the non-Markovian errors. We develop scalable experimental protocols to characterize these errors.
title A protocol to characterize errors in quantum simulation of many-body physics
topic Quantum Gases
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03452