An assessment of quantum phase estimation protocols for early fault-tolerant quantum computers

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Main Authors: Nelson, Jacob S., Baczewski, Andrew D.
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author Nelson, Jacob S.
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Baczewski, Andrew D.
contents We compare several quantum phase estimation (QPE) protocols intended for early fault-tolerant quantum computers (EFTQCs) in the context of models of their implementations on a surface code architecture. We estimate the logical and physical resources required to use these protocols to calculate the ground state energy of molecular hydrogen in a minimal basis with error below $10^{-3}$ atomic units in the presence of depolarizing logical errors. Accounting for the overhead of rotation synthesis and magic state distillation, we find that the total $T$-gate counts do not vary significantly among the EFT QPE protocols at fixed state overlap. In addition to reducing the number of ancilla qubits and circuit depth, the noise robustness of the EFT protocols can be leveraged to reduce resource requirements below those of textbook QPE, realizing approximately a 300-fold reduction in computational volume in some cases. Even so, our estimates are well beyond the scale of existing early fault-tolerance demonstrations.
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spellingShingle An assessment of quantum phase estimation protocols for early fault-tolerant quantum computers
Nelson, Jacob S.
Baczewski, Andrew D.
Quantum Physics
We compare several quantum phase estimation (QPE) protocols intended for early fault-tolerant quantum computers (EFTQCs) in the context of models of their implementations on a surface code architecture. We estimate the logical and physical resources required to use these protocols to calculate the ground state energy of molecular hydrogen in a minimal basis with error below $10^{-3}$ atomic units in the presence of depolarizing logical errors. Accounting for the overhead of rotation synthesis and magic state distillation, we find that the total $T$-gate counts do not vary significantly among the EFT QPE protocols at fixed state overlap. In addition to reducing the number of ancilla qubits and circuit depth, the noise robustness of the EFT protocols can be leveraged to reduce resource requirements below those of textbook QPE, realizing approximately a 300-fold reduction in computational volume in some cases. Even so, our estimates are well beyond the scale of existing early fault-tolerance demonstrations.
title An assessment of quantum phase estimation protocols for early fault-tolerant quantum computers
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00077