Runtime-coherence trade-offs for hybrid SAT-solvers

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Autores principales: Eshaghian, Vahideh, Wilkening, Sören, Åberg, Johan, Gross, David
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Publicado: 2024
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author Eshaghian, Vahideh
Wilkening, Sören
Åberg, Johan
Gross, David
author_facet Eshaghian, Vahideh
Wilkening, Sören
Åberg, Johan
Gross, David
contents Many search-based quantum algorithms that achieve a theoretical speedup are not practically relevant since they require extraordinarily long coherence times, or lack the parallelizability of their classical counterparts.This raises the question of how to divide computational tasks into a collection of parallelizable sub-problems, each of which can be solved by a quantum computer with limited coherence time. Here, we approach this question via hybrid algorithms for the k-SAT problem. Our analysis is based on Schöning's algorithm, which solves instances of k-SAT by performing random walks in the space of potential assignments. The search space of the walk allows for "natural" partitions, where we subject only one part of the partition to a Grover search, while the rest is sampled classically, thus resulting in a hybrid scheme. In this setting, we argue that there exists a simple trade-off relation between the total runtime and the coherence-time, which no such partition based hybrid-scheme can surpass. For several concrete choices of partitions, we explicitly determine the specific runtime coherence-time relations, and show saturation of the ideal trade-off. Finally, we present numerical simulations which suggest additional flexibility in implementing hybrid algorithms with optimal trade-off.
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spellingShingle Runtime-coherence trade-offs for hybrid SAT-solvers
Eshaghian, Vahideh
Wilkening, Sören
Åberg, Johan
Gross, David
Quantum Physics
Many search-based quantum algorithms that achieve a theoretical speedup are not practically relevant since they require extraordinarily long coherence times, or lack the parallelizability of their classical counterparts.This raises the question of how to divide computational tasks into a collection of parallelizable sub-problems, each of which can be solved by a quantum computer with limited coherence time. Here, we approach this question via hybrid algorithms for the k-SAT problem. Our analysis is based on Schöning's algorithm, which solves instances of k-SAT by performing random walks in the space of potential assignments. The search space of the walk allows for "natural" partitions, where we subject only one part of the partition to a Grover search, while the rest is sampled classically, thus resulting in a hybrid scheme. In this setting, we argue that there exists a simple trade-off relation between the total runtime and the coherence-time, which no such partition based hybrid-scheme can surpass. For several concrete choices of partitions, we explicitly determine the specific runtime coherence-time relations, and show saturation of the ideal trade-off. Finally, we present numerical simulations which suggest additional flexibility in implementing hybrid algorithms with optimal trade-off.
title Runtime-coherence trade-offs for hybrid SAT-solvers
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15235