Hamiltonian learning via quantum Zeno effect
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| author | Franceschetto, Giacomo Pagliaro, Egle Pereira, Luciano Zambrano, Leonardo Acín, Antonio |
| author_facet | Franceschetto, Giacomo Pagliaro, Egle Pereira, Luciano Zambrano, Leonardo Acín, Antonio |
| contents | Determining the Hamiltonian of a quantum system is essential for understanding its dynamics and validating its behavior. Hamiltonian learning provides a data-driven approach to reconstruct the generator of the dynamics from measurements on the evolved system. Among its applications, it is particularly important for benchmarking and characterizing quantum hardware, such as quantum computers and simulators. However, as these devices grow in size and complexity, this task becomes increasingly challenging. To address this, we propose a scalable and experimentally friendly Hamiltonian learning protocol for Hamiltonian operators made of local interactions. It leverages the quantum Zeno effect as a reshaping tool to localize the system's dynamics and then applies quantum process tomography to learn the coefficients of a local subset of the Hamiltonian acting on selected qubits. Unlike existing approaches, our method does not require complex state preparations and uses experimentally accessible, coherence-preserving operations. We derive theoretical performance guarantees and demonstrate the feasibility of our protocol both with numerical simulations and through an experimental implementation on IBM's superconducting quantum hardware, successfully learning the coefficients of a 109-qubit Hamiltonian. |
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| spellingShingle | Hamiltonian learning via quantum Zeno effect Franceschetto, Giacomo Pagliaro, Egle Pereira, Luciano Zambrano, Leonardo Acín, Antonio Quantum Physics Determining the Hamiltonian of a quantum system is essential for understanding its dynamics and validating its behavior. Hamiltonian learning provides a data-driven approach to reconstruct the generator of the dynamics from measurements on the evolved system. Among its applications, it is particularly important for benchmarking and characterizing quantum hardware, such as quantum computers and simulators. However, as these devices grow in size and complexity, this task becomes increasingly challenging. To address this, we propose a scalable and experimentally friendly Hamiltonian learning protocol for Hamiltonian operators made of local interactions. It leverages the quantum Zeno effect as a reshaping tool to localize the system's dynamics and then applies quantum process tomography to learn the coefficients of a local subset of the Hamiltonian acting on selected qubits. Unlike existing approaches, our method does not require complex state preparations and uses experimentally accessible, coherence-preserving operations. We derive theoretical performance guarantees and demonstrate the feasibility of our protocol both with numerical simulations and through an experimental implementation on IBM's superconducting quantum hardware, successfully learning the coefficients of a 109-qubit Hamiltonian. |
| title | Hamiltonian learning via quantum Zeno effect |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15713 |