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Main Authors: Granet, Etienne, Dreyer, Henrik
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04254
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author Granet, Etienne
Dreyer, Henrik
author_facet Granet, Etienne
Dreyer, Henrik
contents We provide analytic, numerical and experimental evidence that the amount of noise in digital quantum simulation of local observables can be independent of system size in a number of situations. We provide a microscopic explanation of this dilution of errors based on the "relevant string length" of operators, which is the length of Pauli strings in the operator at time $s$ that belong to the exponentially small subspace of strings that can give a non-zero expectation value at time $t$. We show that this explanation can predict when dilution of errors occurs and when it does not. We propose an error mitigation method whose efficiency relies on this mechanism. Our findings imply that digital quantum simulation with noisy devices is in appropriate cases scalable in the sense that gate errors do not need to be reduced linearly to simulate larger systems.
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spellingShingle Dilution of error in digital Hamiltonian simulation
Granet, Etienne
Dreyer, Henrik
Quantum Physics
We provide analytic, numerical and experimental evidence that the amount of noise in digital quantum simulation of local observables can be independent of system size in a number of situations. We provide a microscopic explanation of this dilution of errors based on the "relevant string length" of operators, which is the length of Pauli strings in the operator at time $s$ that belong to the exponentially small subspace of strings that can give a non-zero expectation value at time $t$. We show that this explanation can predict when dilution of errors occurs and when it does not. We propose an error mitigation method whose efficiency relies on this mechanism. Our findings imply that digital quantum simulation with noisy devices is in appropriate cases scalable in the sense that gate errors do not need to be reduced linearly to simulate larger systems.
title Dilution of error in digital Hamiltonian simulation
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04254