Advantages of multistage quantum walks over QAOA

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Main Authors: Gerblich, Lasse, Dasanjh, Tamanna, Wong, Horatio Q. X., Ross, David, Novo, Leonardo, Chancellor, Nicholas, Kendon, Viv
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author Gerblich, Lasse
Dasanjh, Tamanna
Wong, Horatio Q. X.
Ross, David
Novo, Leonardo
Chancellor, Nicholas
Kendon, Viv
author_facet Gerblich, Lasse
Dasanjh, Tamanna
Wong, Horatio Q. X.
Ross, David
Novo, Leonardo
Chancellor, Nicholas
Kendon, Viv
contents Methods to find the solution state for optimization problems encoded into Ising Hamiltonians are a very active area of current research. In this work we compare the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) with multi-stage quantum walks (MSQW). Both can be used as variational quantum algorithms, where the control parameters are optimized classically. A fair comparison requires both quantum and classical resources to be assessed. Alternatively, parameters can be chosen heuristically, as we do in this work, providing a simpler setting for comparisons. Using both numerical and analytical methods, we obtain evidence that MSQW outperforms QAOA, using equivalent resources. We also show numerically for random spin glass ground state problems that MSQW performs well even for few stages and heuristic parameters, with no classical optimization.
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spellingShingle Advantages of multistage quantum walks over QAOA
Gerblich, Lasse
Dasanjh, Tamanna
Wong, Horatio Q. X.
Ross, David
Novo, Leonardo
Chancellor, Nicholas
Kendon, Viv
Quantum Physics
Emerging Technologies
Methods to find the solution state for optimization problems encoded into Ising Hamiltonians are a very active area of current research. In this work we compare the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) with multi-stage quantum walks (MSQW). Both can be used as variational quantum algorithms, where the control parameters are optimized classically. A fair comparison requires both quantum and classical resources to be assessed. Alternatively, parameters can be chosen heuristically, as we do in this work, providing a simpler setting for comparisons. Using both numerical and analytical methods, we obtain evidence that MSQW outperforms QAOA, using equivalent resources. We also show numerically for random spin glass ground state problems that MSQW performs well even for few stages and heuristic parameters, with no classical optimization.
title Advantages of multistage quantum walks over QAOA
topic Quantum Physics
Emerging Technologies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06663