Experimental Realization of the Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithm on a Quantum Computer

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Hauptverfasser: Claudon, Baptiste, Ramos-Calderer, Sergi, Piquemal, Jean-Philip
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author Claudon, Baptiste
Ramos-Calderer, Sergi
Piquemal, Jean-Philip
author_facet Claudon, Baptiste
Ramos-Calderer, Sergi
Piquemal, Jean-Philip
contents Quantum algorithms present a quadratically improved complexity over classical ones for certain sampling tasks. For instance, the Quantum Amplitude Estimation (QAE) algorithm promises to speedup the estimation of the mean of certain functions, given access to the quantum state corresponding to the probability distribution to be sampled from. Classically, samples are often obtained by running steps a Markov Chain. In this work, we experimentally use encodings of Markov chains to prepare quantum states and run a quantum Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm (qMCMC) on Quantinuum's H2 and Helios quantum computers. We demonstrate that it is possible to obtain accurate results on current Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) hardware, operating directly on the physical qubits.
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spellingShingle Experimental Realization of the Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithm on a Quantum Computer
Claudon, Baptiste
Ramos-Calderer, Sergi
Piquemal, Jean-Philip
Quantum Physics
Quantum algorithms present a quadratically improved complexity over classical ones for certain sampling tasks. For instance, the Quantum Amplitude Estimation (QAE) algorithm promises to speedup the estimation of the mean of certain functions, given access to the quantum state corresponding to the probability distribution to be sampled from. Classically, samples are often obtained by running steps a Markov Chain. In this work, we experimentally use encodings of Markov chains to prepare quantum states and run a quantum Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm (qMCMC) on Quantinuum's H2 and Helios quantum computers. We demonstrate that it is possible to obtain accurate results on current Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) hardware, operating directly on the physical qubits.
title Experimental Realization of the Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithm on a Quantum Computer
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08395