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Main Author: Watson, James D.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04240
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contents The quantum stochastic drift protocol, also known as qDRIFT, has become a popular algorithm for implementing time-evolution of quantum systems using randomised compiling. In this work we develop qFLO, a higher order randomised algorithm for time-evolution. To estimate an observable expectation value at time $T$ to precision $ε$, we show it is sufficient to use circuit depths of $O(T^2\log(1/ε))$ -- an exponential improvement over standard qDRIFT requirements with respect to $ε$. The protocol achieves this using $O(1/ε^2)$ repeated runs of the standard qDRIFT protocol combined with classical post-processing in the form of Richardson extrapolation. Notably, it requires no ancillary qubits or additional control gates making it especially promising for near-term quantum devices. Furthermore, it is well-conditioned and inherits many desirable properties of randomly compiled simulation methods, including circuit depths that do not explicitly depend on the number of terms in the Hamiltonian.
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spellingShingle Randomly Compiled Quantum Simulation with Exponentially Reduced Circuit Depths
Watson, James D.
Quantum Physics
The quantum stochastic drift protocol, also known as qDRIFT, has become a popular algorithm for implementing time-evolution of quantum systems using randomised compiling. In this work we develop qFLO, a higher order randomised algorithm for time-evolution. To estimate an observable expectation value at time $T$ to precision $ε$, we show it is sufficient to use circuit depths of $O(T^2\log(1/ε))$ -- an exponential improvement over standard qDRIFT requirements with respect to $ε$. The protocol achieves this using $O(1/ε^2)$ repeated runs of the standard qDRIFT protocol combined with classical post-processing in the form of Richardson extrapolation. Notably, it requires no ancillary qubits or additional control gates making it especially promising for near-term quantum devices. Furthermore, it is well-conditioned and inherits many desirable properties of randomly compiled simulation methods, including circuit depths that do not explicitly depend on the number of terms in the Hamiltonian.
title Randomly Compiled Quantum Simulation with Exponentially Reduced Circuit Depths
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04240