Quantum computing in spin-adapted representations for efficient simulations of spin systems

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Main Authors: Gandon, Anthony, Baiardi, Alberto, Rossmannek, Max, Dobrautz, Werner, Tavernelli, Ivano
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Published: 2024
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author Gandon, Anthony
Baiardi, Alberto
Rossmannek, Max
Dobrautz, Werner
Tavernelli, Ivano
author_facet Gandon, Anthony
Baiardi, Alberto
Rossmannek, Max
Dobrautz, Werner
Tavernelli, Ivano
contents Exploiting inherent symmetries is a common and effective approach to speed up the simulation of quantum systems. However, efficiently accounting for non-Abelian symmetries, such as the $SU(2)$ total-spin symmetry, remains a major challenge. In fact, expressing total-spin eigenstates in terms of the computational basis can require an exponentially large number of coefficients. In this work, we introduce a novel formalism for designing quantum algorithms directly in an eigenbasis of the total-spin operator. Our strategy relies on the symmetric group approach in conjunction with a truncation scheme for the internal degrees of freedom of total-spin eigenstates. For the case of the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model, we show that this formalism yields a hierarchy of spin-adapted Hamiltonians, for each truncation threshold, whose ground-state energy and wave function quickly converge to their exact counterparts, calculated on the full model. These truncated Hamiltonians can be encoded with sparse and local qubit Hamiltonians that are suitable for quantum simulations. We demonstrate this by developing a state-preparation schedule to construct shallow quantum-circuit approximations, expressed in a total-spin eigenbasis, for the ground states of the Heisenberg Hamiltonian in different symmetry sectors.
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spellingShingle Quantum computing in spin-adapted representations for efficient simulations of spin systems
Gandon, Anthony
Baiardi, Alberto
Rossmannek, Max
Dobrautz, Werner
Tavernelli, Ivano
Quantum Physics
Exploiting inherent symmetries is a common and effective approach to speed up the simulation of quantum systems. However, efficiently accounting for non-Abelian symmetries, such as the $SU(2)$ total-spin symmetry, remains a major challenge. In fact, expressing total-spin eigenstates in terms of the computational basis can require an exponentially large number of coefficients. In this work, we introduce a novel formalism for designing quantum algorithms directly in an eigenbasis of the total-spin operator. Our strategy relies on the symmetric group approach in conjunction with a truncation scheme for the internal degrees of freedom of total-spin eigenstates. For the case of the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model, we show that this formalism yields a hierarchy of spin-adapted Hamiltonians, for each truncation threshold, whose ground-state energy and wave function quickly converge to their exact counterparts, calculated on the full model. These truncated Hamiltonians can be encoded with sparse and local qubit Hamiltonians that are suitable for quantum simulations. We demonstrate this by developing a state-preparation schedule to construct shallow quantum-circuit approximations, expressed in a total-spin eigenbasis, for the ground states of the Heisenberg Hamiltonian in different symmetry sectors.
title Quantum computing in spin-adapted representations for efficient simulations of spin systems
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14797