Equating quantum imaginary time evolution, Riemannian gradient flows, and stochastic implementations
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| author | McMahon, Nathan A. Pervez, Mahum Arenz, Christian |
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| contents | We identify quantum imaginary time evolution as a Riemannian gradient flow on the unitary group. We develop an upper bound for the error between the two evolutions that can be controlled through the step size of the Riemannian gradient descent which minimizes the energy of the system. We discuss implementations through adaptive quantum algorithms and present a stochastic Riemannian gradient descent algorithm in which each step is efficiently implementable on a quantum computer. We prove that for a sufficiently small step size, the stochastic evolution concentrates around the imaginary time evolution, thereby providing performance guarantees for cooling the system through stochastic Riemannian gradient descent. |
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| spellingShingle | Equating quantum imaginary time evolution, Riemannian gradient flows, and stochastic implementations McMahon, Nathan A. Pervez, Mahum Arenz, Christian Quantum Physics We identify quantum imaginary time evolution as a Riemannian gradient flow on the unitary group. We develop an upper bound for the error between the two evolutions that can be controlled through the step size of the Riemannian gradient descent which minimizes the energy of the system. We discuss implementations through adaptive quantum algorithms and present a stochastic Riemannian gradient descent algorithm in which each step is efficiently implementable on a quantum computer. We prove that for a sufficiently small step size, the stochastic evolution concentrates around the imaginary time evolution, thereby providing performance guarantees for cooling the system through stochastic Riemannian gradient descent. |
| title | Equating quantum imaginary time evolution, Riemannian gradient flows, and stochastic implementations |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06123 |