Variational quantum algorithm with information sharing

Abstract We introduce an optimisation method for variational quantum algorithms and experimentally demonstrate a 100-fold improvement in efficiency compared to naive implementations. The effectiveness of our approach is shown by obtaining multi-dimensional energy surfaces for small molecules and a s...

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Auteurs principaux: Chris N. Self, Kiran E. Khosla, Alistair W. R. Smith, Frédéric Sauvage, Peter D. Haynes, Johannes Knolle, Florian Mintert, M. S. Kim
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Langue:EN
Publié: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/df508c9fc03941c3b4af813f7440ce5c
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Résumé:Abstract We introduce an optimisation method for variational quantum algorithms and experimentally demonstrate a 100-fold improvement in efficiency compared to naive implementations. The effectiveness of our approach is shown by obtaining multi-dimensional energy surfaces for small molecules and a spin model. Our method solves related variational problems in parallel by exploiting the global nature of Bayesian optimisation and sharing information between different optimisers. Parallelisation makes our method ideally suited to the next generation of variational problems with many physical degrees of freedom. This addresses a key challenge in scaling-up quantum algorithms towards demonstrating quantum advantage for problems of real-world interest.