Encoding Electronic Spectra in Quantum Circuits with Linear T Complexity

Oct 23, 2018
36 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.X 8 (2018) 4, 041015
  • Published: Oct 23, 2018

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Abstract: (APS)
We construct quantumcircuits that exactly encode the spectra of correlated electronmodels up to errors from rotation synthesis. By invoking these circuits as oracles within the recently introduced “qubitization” framework, one can use quantumphase estimation to sample states in the Hamiltonian eigenbasis with optimal query complexityOð.=.Þ, where . is an absolute sumof Hamiltonian coefficients and . is the target precision. For both theHubbardmodel and electronic structureHamiltonian in a second quantized basis diagonalizing the Coulomboperator, our circuits have T-gate complexityO(N þ logð1=.Þ), whereN is the number of orbitals in the basis. This scenario enables sampling in the eigenbasis of electronic structure Hamiltonians with T complexity O(N3=. þ N2 logð1=.Þ=.). Compared to prior approaches, our algorithms are asymptotically more efficient in gate complexity and require fewerTgates near the classically intractable regime.Compiling to surface code fault-tolerant gates and assuming per-gate error rates of one part in a thousand reveals that one can error correct phase estimation on interesting instances of these problems beyond the current capabilities of classical methods using only about a million superconducting qubits in a matter of hours.
  • Quantum Information, Science & Technology
  • Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics
  • Electronic structure
  • Quantum algorithms
  • Quantum error correction
  • Quantum simulation
  • Quantum walks
  • Surface code quantum computing
  • quantum error correction
  • surface code