Feinstein, Natasha;
Fry-Bouriaux, Louis;
Bose, Sougato;
Warburton, PA;
(2024)
Effects of Effects of XX catalysts on quantum annealing spectra with perturbative crossings.
Physical Review A
, 110
(4)
, Article 042609. 10.1103/physreva.110.042609.
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Abstract
In adiabatic quantum computation the required run-time to reach a given ground-state fidelity is dictated by the size of the minimum gap that appears between the ground and first-excited state in the annealing spectrum. In general the presence of avoided level crossings demands an exponential increase in the annealing time with the system size which has consequences both for the efficiency of the algorithm and the required qubit coherence times. One promising avenue being explored to produce more favorable gap scaling is the introduction of nonstoquastic XX couplings in the form of a catalyst—of particular interest are catalysts which utilize accessible information about the optimization problem in their construction. Here we show extreme sensitivity of the effect of an XX catalyst to subtle changes in the encoding of the optimization problem. In particular, we observe that a targeted catalyst containing a single coupling can significantly reduce the gap closing with system size at an avoided level crossing. For slightly different encodings of the same problems however, these same catalysts result in closing gaps in the annealing spectrum. To understand the origin of these closing gaps, we study how the evolution of the ground-state vector is altered by the presence of the catalyst and find that the negative components of the ground-state vector are key to understanding the response of the gap spectrum. We also consider how and when these closing gaps could be utilized in diabatic quantum annealing protocols—a promising alternative to adiabatic quantum annealing in which transitions to higher energy levels are exploited to reduce the run time of the algorithm.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Effects of Effects of XX catalysts on quantum annealing spectra with perturbative crossings |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1103/physreva.110.042609 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.110.042609 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > London Centre for Nanotechnology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10198915 |
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