Snapshot-QAOA: Extending QAOA to Quantum Hamiltonian Simulation

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Auteurs principaux: Tate, Reuben, Langfitt, Quinn, Pelofske, Elijah, Kirmani, Ammar, Bärtschi, Andreas, Golden, John, Eidenbenz, Stephan
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author Tate, Reuben
Langfitt, Quinn
Pelofske, Elijah
Kirmani, Ammar
Bärtschi, Andreas
Golden, John
Eidenbenz, Stephan
author_facet Tate, Reuben
Langfitt, Quinn
Pelofske, Elijah
Kirmani, Ammar
Bärtschi, Andreas
Golden, John
Eidenbenz, Stephan
contents We present Snapshot-QAOA, a variation of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) that finds approximate minimum energy eigenstates of a large set of quantum Hamiltonians (i.e. Hamiltonians with non-diagonal terms). Traditionally, QAOA targets the task of approximately solving combinatorial optimization problems; Snapshot-QAOA enables a significant expansion of the use case space for QAOA to more general quantum Hamiltonians, where the goal is to approximate the ground-state. Such ground-state finding is a common challenge in quantum chemistry and material science applications. Snapshot-QAOA retains desirable variational-algorithm qualities of QAOA, in particular small parameter count and relatively shallow circuit depth. Snapshot-QAOA is thus a better trainable alternative to the NISQ-era Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) algorithm, while retaining a significant circuit-depth advantage over the QEC-era Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE) algorithm. Our fundamental approach is inspired by the idea of Trotterization of a continuous-time linear adiabatic anneal schedule, which for sufficiently large QAOA depth gives very good performance. Snapshot-QAOA restricts the QAOA evolution to not phasing out the mixing Hamiltonian completely at the end of the evolution, instead evolving only a partial typical linear QAOA schedule, thus creating a type of snapshot of the typical QAOA evolution. As a test case, we simulate Snapshot-QAOA on a 16 qubit J1-J2 frustrated square transverse field Ising model with periodic boundary conditions.
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spellingShingle Snapshot-QAOA: Extending QAOA to Quantum Hamiltonian Simulation
Tate, Reuben
Langfitt, Quinn
Pelofske, Elijah
Kirmani, Ammar
Bärtschi, Andreas
Golden, John
Eidenbenz, Stephan
Quantum Physics
We present Snapshot-QAOA, a variation of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) that finds approximate minimum energy eigenstates of a large set of quantum Hamiltonians (i.e. Hamiltonians with non-diagonal terms). Traditionally, QAOA targets the task of approximately solving combinatorial optimization problems; Snapshot-QAOA enables a significant expansion of the use case space for QAOA to more general quantum Hamiltonians, where the goal is to approximate the ground-state. Such ground-state finding is a common challenge in quantum chemistry and material science applications. Snapshot-QAOA retains desirable variational-algorithm qualities of QAOA, in particular small parameter count and relatively shallow circuit depth. Snapshot-QAOA is thus a better trainable alternative to the NISQ-era Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) algorithm, while retaining a significant circuit-depth advantage over the QEC-era Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE) algorithm. Our fundamental approach is inspired by the idea of Trotterization of a continuous-time linear adiabatic anneal schedule, which for sufficiently large QAOA depth gives very good performance. Snapshot-QAOA restricts the QAOA evolution to not phasing out the mixing Hamiltonian completely at the end of the evolution, instead evolving only a partial typical linear QAOA schedule, thus creating a type of snapshot of the typical QAOA evolution. As a test case, we simulate Snapshot-QAOA on a 16 qubit J1-J2 frustrated square transverse field Ising model with periodic boundary conditions.
title Snapshot-QAOA: Extending QAOA to Quantum Hamiltonian Simulation
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17990