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12.04.2019 20:00

Quantum simulation more stable than expected

Dr. Christian Flatz Büro für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Universität Innsbruck

    A localization phenomenon boosts the accuracy of solving quantum many-body problems with quantum computers which are otherwise challenging for conventional computers. This brings such digital quantum simulation within reach on quantum devices available today.

    Quantum computers promise to solve certain computational problems exponentially faster than any classical machine. “A particularly promising application is the solution of quantum many-body problems utilizing the concept of digital quantum simulation”, says Markus Heyl from Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex in Dresden, Germany. “Such simulations could have a major impact on quantum chemistry, materials science and fundamental physics.” Within digital quantum simulation the time evolution of the targeted quantum many-body system is realized by a sequence of elementary quantum gates by discretizing time evolution, called Trotterization. “A fundamental challenge, however, is the control of an intrinsic error source, which appears due to this discretization”, says Markus Heyl. Together with Peter Zoller from the Department of Experimental Physics at the University of Innsbruck and the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Communication at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Philipp Hauke from the Kirchhoff Institute for Physics and the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Heidelberg they show in a recent paper in Science Advances that quantum localization–by constraining the time evolution through quantum interference–strongly bounds these errors for local observables.

    More robust than expected

    “Digital quantum simulation is thus intrinsically much more robust than what one might expect from known error bounds on the global many-body wave function”, Heyl summarizes. This robustness is characterized by a sharp threshold as a function of the utilized time granularity measured by the so-called Trotter step size. The threshold separates a regular region with controllable Trotter errors, where the system exhibits localization in the space of eigenstates of the time-evolution operator, from a quantum chaotic regime where errors accumulate quickly rendering the outcome of the quantum simulation unusable. “Our findings show that digital quantum simulation with comparatively large Trotter steps can retain controlled Trotter errors for local observables”, says Markus Heyl. “It is thus possible to reduce the number of quantum gate operations required to represent the desired time evolution faithfully, thereby mitigating the effects of imperfect individual gate operations.” This brings digital quantum simulation for classically challenging quantum many-body problems within reach for current day quantum devices.


    Wissenschaftliche Ansprechpartner:

    Markus Heyl
    Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
    phone: +49 351 871 1117
    email: heyl@pks.mpg.de
    web: https://www.pks.mpg.de/dynamics-in-correlated-quantum-matter/

    Peter Zoller
    University of Innsbruck
    phone: +43 512 507 4780
    email: Peter.Zoller@uibk.ac.at
    web: https://www.uibk.ac.at/exphys/qo/


    Originalpublikation:

    Quantum localization bounds Trotter errors in digital quantum simulation. Markus Heyl, Philipp Hauke, Peter Zoller. Science Advances 2019


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