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Main Authors: Demarty, Marine, Mills, James, Hammam, Kenza, Garcia-Patron, Raul
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18007
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author Demarty, Marine
Mills, James
Hammam, Kenza
Garcia-Patron, Raul
author_facet Demarty, Marine
Mills, James
Hammam, Kenza
Garcia-Patron, Raul
contents Understanding the limitations imposed by noise on current and next-generation quantum devices is a crucial step towards demonstrating practical quantum advantage. In this work, we investigate the accumulation of entropy density as a benchmark to monitor the performance of quantum processing units. We provide a proof-of-principle demonstration of our novel methodology which entails developing simple heuristic models of how entropy accumulates, testing them against real QPU experiments, and finally using these models to determine a circuit volume threshold above which quantum advantage is unattainable. Monitoring entropy density not only offers a novel approach that complements existing circuit-level benchmarking techniques, but more importantly, it bridges the gap between circuit-level and application-level benchmarking protocols. In particular, our heuristic model of entropy accumulation allows us to outperform existing techniques that bound the circuit size threshold for quantum advantage.
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spellingShingle Entropy Density Benchmarking of Near-Term Quantum Circuits
Demarty, Marine
Mills, James
Hammam, Kenza
Garcia-Patron, Raul
Quantum Physics
Understanding the limitations imposed by noise on current and next-generation quantum devices is a crucial step towards demonstrating practical quantum advantage. In this work, we investigate the accumulation of entropy density as a benchmark to monitor the performance of quantum processing units. We provide a proof-of-principle demonstration of our novel methodology which entails developing simple heuristic models of how entropy accumulates, testing them against real QPU experiments, and finally using these models to determine a circuit volume threshold above which quantum advantage is unattainable. Monitoring entropy density not only offers a novel approach that complements existing circuit-level benchmarking techniques, but more importantly, it bridges the gap between circuit-level and application-level benchmarking protocols. In particular, our heuristic model of entropy accumulation allows us to outperform existing techniques that bound the circuit size threshold for quantum advantage.
title Entropy Density Benchmarking of Near-Term Quantum Circuits
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18007