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Main Authors: Huang, Mingyu, Guan, Ji, Fang, Wang, Ying, Mingsheng
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10340
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author Huang, Mingyu
Guan, Ji
Fang, Wang
Ying, Mingsheng
author_facet Huang, Mingyu
Guan, Ji
Fang, Wang
Ying, Mingsheng
contents In the current NISQ (Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum) era, simulating and verifying noisy quantum circuits is crucial but faces challenges such as quantum state explosion and complex noise representations, constraining simulation and equivalence checking to circuits with a limited number of qubits. This paper introduces an approximation algorithm for simulating and assessing the equivalence of noisy quantum circuits, specifically designed to improve scalability under low-noise conditions. The approach utilizes a novel tensor network diagram combined with singular value decomposition to approximate the tensors of quantum noises. The implementation is based on Google's TensorNetwork Python package for contraction. Experimental results on realistic quantum circuits with realistic hardware noise models indicate that our algorithm can simulate and check the equivalence of QAOA (Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm) circuits with around 200 qubits and 20 noise operators, outperforming state-of-the-art approaches in scalability and speed.
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spellingShingle Approximation Methods for Simulation and Equivalence Checking of Noisy Quantum Circuits
Huang, Mingyu
Guan, Ji
Fang, Wang
Ying, Mingsheng
Quantum Physics
In the current NISQ (Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum) era, simulating and verifying noisy quantum circuits is crucial but faces challenges such as quantum state explosion and complex noise representations, constraining simulation and equivalence checking to circuits with a limited number of qubits. This paper introduces an approximation algorithm for simulating and assessing the equivalence of noisy quantum circuits, specifically designed to improve scalability under low-noise conditions. The approach utilizes a novel tensor network diagram combined with singular value decomposition to approximate the tensors of quantum noises. The implementation is based on Google's TensorNetwork Python package for contraction. Experimental results on realistic quantum circuits with realistic hardware noise models indicate that our algorithm can simulate and check the equivalence of QAOA (Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm) circuits with around 200 qubits and 20 noise operators, outperforming state-of-the-art approaches in scalability and speed.
title Approximation Methods for Simulation and Equivalence Checking of Noisy Quantum Circuits
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10340