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Main Authors: Cortes, Cristian L., Rocca, Dario, Gonthier, Jerome, Ollitrault, Pauline J., Parrish, Robert M., Anselmetti, Gian-Luca R., Degroote, Matthias, Moll, Nikolaj, Santagati, Raffaele, Streif, Michael
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04737
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author Cortes, Cristian L.
Rocca, Dario
Gonthier, Jerome
Ollitrault, Pauline J.
Parrish, Robert M.
Anselmetti, Gian-Luca R.
Degroote, Matthias
Moll, Nikolaj
Santagati, Raffaele
Streif, Michael
author_facet Cortes, Cristian L.
Rocca, Dario
Gonthier, Jerome
Ollitrault, Pauline J.
Parrish, Robert M.
Anselmetti, Gian-Luca R.
Degroote, Matthias
Moll, Nikolaj
Santagati, Raffaele
Streif, Michael
contents The computational cost of quantum algorithms for physics and chemistry is closely linked to the spectrum of the Hamiltonian, a property that manifests in the necessary rescaling of its eigenvalues. The typical approach of using the 1-norm as an upper bound to the spectral norm to rescale the Hamiltonian suits the most general case of bounded Hermitian operators but neglects the influence of symmetries commonly found in chemical systems. In this work, we introduce a hierarchy of symmetry-aware spectral bounds that provide a unified understanding of the performance of quantum phase estimation algorithms using block-encoded electronic structure Hamiltonians. We present a variational and numerically tractable method for computing these bounds, based on orbital optimization, to demonstrate that the computed bounds are smaller than conventional spectral bounds for a variety of molecular benchmark systems. We also highlight the unique analytical and numerical scaling behavior of these bounds in the thermodynamic and complete basis set limits. Our work shows that there is room for improvement in reducing the 1-norm, not yet achieved through methods like double factorization and tensor hypercontraction, but highlights potential challenges in improving the performance of current quantum algorithms beyond small constant factors through 1-norm reduction techniques alone.
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spellingShingle Assessing the query complexity limits of quantum phase estimation using symmetry aware spectral bounds
Cortes, Cristian L.
Rocca, Dario
Gonthier, Jerome
Ollitrault, Pauline J.
Parrish, Robert M.
Anselmetti, Gian-Luca R.
Degroote, Matthias
Moll, Nikolaj
Santagati, Raffaele
Streif, Michael
Quantum Physics
Other Condensed Matter
Computational Physics
The computational cost of quantum algorithms for physics and chemistry is closely linked to the spectrum of the Hamiltonian, a property that manifests in the necessary rescaling of its eigenvalues. The typical approach of using the 1-norm as an upper bound to the spectral norm to rescale the Hamiltonian suits the most general case of bounded Hermitian operators but neglects the influence of symmetries commonly found in chemical systems. In this work, we introduce a hierarchy of symmetry-aware spectral bounds that provide a unified understanding of the performance of quantum phase estimation algorithms using block-encoded electronic structure Hamiltonians. We present a variational and numerically tractable method for computing these bounds, based on orbital optimization, to demonstrate that the computed bounds are smaller than conventional spectral bounds for a variety of molecular benchmark systems. We also highlight the unique analytical and numerical scaling behavior of these bounds in the thermodynamic and complete basis set limits. Our work shows that there is room for improvement in reducing the 1-norm, not yet achieved through methods like double factorization and tensor hypercontraction, but highlights potential challenges in improving the performance of current quantum algorithms beyond small constant factors through 1-norm reduction techniques alone.
title Assessing the query complexity limits of quantum phase estimation using symmetry aware spectral bounds
topic Quantum Physics
Other Condensed Matter
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04737