Shadow Ansatz for the Many-Fermion Wave Function in Scalable Molecular Simulations on Quantum Computing Devices

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Autores principales: Wang, Yuchen, Avdic, Irma, Mazziotti, David A.
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Publicado: 2024
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author Wang, Yuchen
Avdic, Irma
Mazziotti, David A.
author_facet Wang, Yuchen
Avdic, Irma
Mazziotti, David A.
contents Here we show that shadow tomography can generate an efficient and exact ansatz for the many-fermion wave function on quantum devices. We derive the shadow ansatz -- a product of transformations applied to the mean-field wave function -- by exploiting a critical link between measurement and preparation. Each transformation is obtained by measuring a classical shadow of the residual of the contracted Schrödinger equation (CSE), the many-electron Schrödinger equation (SE) projected onto the space of two electrons. We show that the classical shadows of the CSE vanish if and only if the wave function satisfies the SE and, hence, that randomly sampling only the two-electron space yields an exact ansatz regardless of the total number of electrons. We demonstrate the ansatz's advantages for scalable simulations -- fewer measurements and shallower circuits -- by computing H$_{3}$ on simulators and a quantum device.
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spellingShingle Shadow Ansatz for the Many-Fermion Wave Function in Scalable Molecular Simulations on Quantum Computing Devices
Wang, Yuchen
Avdic, Irma
Mazziotti, David A.
Quantum Physics
Chemical Physics
Computational Physics
Here we show that shadow tomography can generate an efficient and exact ansatz for the many-fermion wave function on quantum devices. We derive the shadow ansatz -- a product of transformations applied to the mean-field wave function -- by exploiting a critical link between measurement and preparation. Each transformation is obtained by measuring a classical shadow of the residual of the contracted Schrödinger equation (CSE), the many-electron Schrödinger equation (SE) projected onto the space of two electrons. We show that the classical shadows of the CSE vanish if and only if the wave function satisfies the SE and, hence, that randomly sampling only the two-electron space yields an exact ansatz regardless of the total number of electrons. We demonstrate the ansatz's advantages for scalable simulations -- fewer measurements and shallower circuits -- by computing H$_{3}$ on simulators and a quantum device.
title Shadow Ansatz for the Many-Fermion Wave Function in Scalable Molecular Simulations on Quantum Computing Devices
topic Quantum Physics
Chemical Physics
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.11026