Measuring central charge on a universal quantum processor
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| author | Köylüoğlu, Nazlı Uğur Majumder, Swarndeep Amico, Mirko Mostame, Sarah Berg, Ewout van den Rajabpour, M. A. Minev, Zlatko Najafi, Khadijeh |
| author_facet | Köylüoğlu, Nazlı Uğur Majumder, Swarndeep Amico, Mirko Mostame, Sarah Berg, Ewout van den Rajabpour, M. A. Minev, Zlatko Najafi, Khadijeh |
| contents | Central charge is a fundamental quantity in conformal field theories (CFT), and plays a crucial role in determining universality classes of critical points in two-dimensional systems. Despite its significance, the measurement of central charge has remained elusive thus far. In this work, we present the first experimental determination of the central charge using a universal quantum processor. Using a classically optimized variational quantum circuit and employing advanced error mitigation techniques, we successfully prepare ground states of various $1+1D$ quantum spin chain models at their critical point. Leveraging the heavy-hex structure of IBM quantum processors, we are able to implement periodic boundary conditions and mitigate boundary effects. We then extract the central charge from the scaling behavior of the sub-leading term of R{é}nyi generalizations of classical Shannon entropy, computed for local Pauli measurements in the conformal bases ($σ^{z}$ and $σ^x$). The experimental results are consistent with the known central charge values for the transverse field Ising (TFI) chain ($c=0.5$) and the XXZ chain ($c=1$), achieving relative errors as low as 5 percent. |
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| spellingShingle | Measuring central charge on a universal quantum processor Köylüoğlu, Nazlı Uğur Majumder, Swarndeep Amico, Mirko Mostame, Sarah Berg, Ewout van den Rajabpour, M. A. Minev, Zlatko Najafi, Khadijeh Quantum Physics Central charge is a fundamental quantity in conformal field theories (CFT), and plays a crucial role in determining universality classes of critical points in two-dimensional systems. Despite its significance, the measurement of central charge has remained elusive thus far. In this work, we present the first experimental determination of the central charge using a universal quantum processor. Using a classically optimized variational quantum circuit and employing advanced error mitigation techniques, we successfully prepare ground states of various $1+1D$ quantum spin chain models at their critical point. Leveraging the heavy-hex structure of IBM quantum processors, we are able to implement periodic boundary conditions and mitigate boundary effects. We then extract the central charge from the scaling behavior of the sub-leading term of R{é}nyi generalizations of classical Shannon entropy, computed for local Pauli measurements in the conformal bases ($σ^{z}$ and $σ^x$). The experimental results are consistent with the known central charge values for the transverse field Ising (TFI) chain ($c=0.5$) and the XXZ chain ($c=1$), achieving relative errors as low as 5 percent. |
| title | Measuring central charge on a universal quantum processor |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06342 |