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Main Authors: Gyawali, Gaurav, Rappaport, Sonny, Sereno, Tiago, Lawler, Michael J.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.09135
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author Gyawali, Gaurav
Rappaport, Sonny
Sereno, Tiago
Lawler, Michael J.
author_facet Gyawali, Gaurav
Rappaport, Sonny
Sereno, Tiago
Lawler, Michael J.
contents The entanglement-induced barren plateau is an exponential vanishing of the parameter gradients with system size that limits the practical application of variational quantum algorithms(VQA). A landscape transition from barren plateau to no-barren plateau was recently observed in monitored quantum circuits, hypothesized to coincide with the measurement-induced phase transition (MIPT) that separates the area-law states from the volume-law states. We argue from an information theory perspective that these are different transitions. This hypothesis is supported by a numerical study that includes cost-gradient variances, visualizations of the optimization runs and cost-landscape, and a quantum-classical channel mutual information measure. The results are evidence for a universal measurement-induced landscape transition (MILT) at $p_c^{\text{MILT}} \approx 0.2 < p_c^{\text{MIPT}}$ and that throughout $0<p<p_c^{\text{MILT}}$, there is a finite quantum-classical channel mutual information in the limit of a large number of qubits. Unlike the barren plateau without measurements, a non-zero rate of measurements induces a coding barren plateau where, typically, information about the parameters is available to a local cost function despite a vanishing gradient.
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spellingShingle Measurement-Induced Landscape Transitions and Coding Barren Plateaus in Hybrid Variational Quantum Circuits
Gyawali, Gaurav
Rappaport, Sonny
Sereno, Tiago
Lawler, Michael J.
Quantum Physics
Statistical Mechanics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
The entanglement-induced barren plateau is an exponential vanishing of the parameter gradients with system size that limits the practical application of variational quantum algorithms(VQA). A landscape transition from barren plateau to no-barren plateau was recently observed in monitored quantum circuits, hypothesized to coincide with the measurement-induced phase transition (MIPT) that separates the area-law states from the volume-law states. We argue from an information theory perspective that these are different transitions. This hypothesis is supported by a numerical study that includes cost-gradient variances, visualizations of the optimization runs and cost-landscape, and a quantum-classical channel mutual information measure. The results are evidence for a universal measurement-induced landscape transition (MILT) at $p_c^{\text{MILT}} \approx 0.2 < p_c^{\text{MIPT}}$ and that throughout $0<p<p_c^{\text{MILT}}$, there is a finite quantum-classical channel mutual information in the limit of a large number of qubits. Unlike the barren plateau without measurements, a non-zero rate of measurements induces a coding barren plateau where, typically, information about the parameters is available to a local cost function despite a vanishing gradient.
title Measurement-Induced Landscape Transitions and Coding Barren Plateaus in Hybrid Variational Quantum Circuits
topic Quantum Physics
Statistical Mechanics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.09135