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Main Authors: Röhrs, Milena, Bochkarev, Alexey, Medina, Arcesio C.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14353
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author Röhrs, Milena
Bochkarev, Alexey
Medina, Arcesio C.
author_facet Röhrs, Milena
Bochkarev, Alexey
Medina, Arcesio C.
contents This work presents a detailed empirical analysis of Bayesian optimisation with information sharing (BOIS) for the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE). The method is applied to computing the potential energy surfaces (PES) of the hydrogen and water molecules. We performed noise-free simulations and investigated the algorithms' performance under the influence of noise for the hydrogen molecule, using both emulated and real quantum hardware (IBMQ System One). Based on the noise free simulations we compared different existing information sharing schemes and proposed a new one, which trades parallelisability of the algorithm for a significant reduction in the amount of quantum computing resources required until convergence. In particular, our numerical experiments show an improvement by a factor of 1.5 as compared to the previously reported sharing schemes in H2, and at least by a factor of 5 as compared to no sharing in H2O. Other algorithmic aspects of the Bayesian optimisation, namely, the acquisition weight decrease rate and kernel, are shown to have an influence on the quantum computation (QC) demand of the same order of magnitude.
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spellingShingle Bayesian optimisation with improved information sharing for the variational quantum eigensolver
Röhrs, Milena
Bochkarev, Alexey
Medina, Arcesio C.
Quantum Physics
This work presents a detailed empirical analysis of Bayesian optimisation with information sharing (BOIS) for the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE). The method is applied to computing the potential energy surfaces (PES) of the hydrogen and water molecules. We performed noise-free simulations and investigated the algorithms' performance under the influence of noise for the hydrogen molecule, using both emulated and real quantum hardware (IBMQ System One). Based on the noise free simulations we compared different existing information sharing schemes and proposed a new one, which trades parallelisability of the algorithm for a significant reduction in the amount of quantum computing resources required until convergence. In particular, our numerical experiments show an improvement by a factor of 1.5 as compared to the previously reported sharing schemes in H2, and at least by a factor of 5 as compared to no sharing in H2O. Other algorithmic aspects of the Bayesian optimisation, namely, the acquisition weight decrease rate and kernel, are shown to have an influence on the quantum computation (QC) demand of the same order of magnitude.
title Bayesian optimisation with improved information sharing for the variational quantum eigensolver
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14353