Node Replacement based Approximate Quantum Simulation with Decision Diagrams

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Autores principales: Yan, Yexin, Hillmich, Stefan, Wille, Robert, Mayr, Christian
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Publicado: 2025
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author Yan, Yexin
Hillmich, Stefan
Wille, Robert
Mayr, Christian
author_facet Yan, Yexin
Hillmich, Stefan
Wille, Robert
Mayr, Christian
contents Simulating a quantum circuit with a classical computer requires exponentially growing resources. Decision diagrams exploit the redundancies in quantum circuit representation to efficiently represent and simulate quantum circuits. But for complicated quantum circuits like the quantum supremacy benchmark, there is almost no redundancy to exploit. Therefore, it often makes sense to do a trade-off between simulation accuracy and memory requirement. Previous work on approximate simulation with decision diagrams exploits this trade-off by removing less important nodes. In this work, instead of removing these nodes, we try to find similar nodes to replace them, effectively slowing down the fidelity loss when reducing the memory. In addition, we adopt Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) to drastically reduce the computational complexity for searching for replacement nodes. Our new approach achieves a better memory-accuracy trade-off for representing a quantum circuit with decision diagrams with minimal run time overhead. Notably, our approach shows good scaling properties when increasing the circuit size and depth. For the first time, a strong better-than-linear trade-off between memory and fidelity is demonstrated for a decision diagram based quantum simulation when representing the quantum supremacy benchmark circuits at high circuit depths, showing the potential of drastically reducing the resource requirement for approximate simulation of the quantum supremacy benchmarks on a classical computer.
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Yan, Yexin
Hillmich, Stefan
Wille, Robert
Mayr, Christian
Quantum Physics
Emerging Technologies
Simulating a quantum circuit with a classical computer requires exponentially growing resources. Decision diagrams exploit the redundancies in quantum circuit representation to efficiently represent and simulate quantum circuits. But for complicated quantum circuits like the quantum supremacy benchmark, there is almost no redundancy to exploit. Therefore, it often makes sense to do a trade-off between simulation accuracy and memory requirement. Previous work on approximate simulation with decision diagrams exploits this trade-off by removing less important nodes. In this work, instead of removing these nodes, we try to find similar nodes to replace them, effectively slowing down the fidelity loss when reducing the memory. In addition, we adopt Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) to drastically reduce the computational complexity for searching for replacement nodes. Our new approach achieves a better memory-accuracy trade-off for representing a quantum circuit with decision diagrams with minimal run time overhead. Notably, our approach shows good scaling properties when increasing the circuit size and depth. For the first time, a strong better-than-linear trade-off between memory and fidelity is demonstrated for a decision diagram based quantum simulation when representing the quantum supremacy benchmark circuits at high circuit depths, showing the potential of drastically reducing the resource requirement for approximate simulation of the quantum supremacy benchmarks on a classical computer.
title Node Replacement based Approximate Quantum Simulation with Decision Diagrams
topic Quantum Physics
Emerging Technologies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04335