Simulating adiabatic quantum computing with parameterized quantum circuits

Ioannis Kolotouros*, Ioannis Petrongonas, Miloš Prokop, Petros Wallden

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Abstract

Adiabatic quantum computing is a universal model for quantum computing whose implementation using a gate-based quantum computer requires depths that are unreachable in the early fault-tolerant era. To mitigate the limitations of near-term devices, a number of hybrid approaches have been pursued in which a parameterized quantum circuit prepares and measures quantum states and a classical optimization algorithm minimizes an objective function that encompasses the solution to the problem of interest. In this work, we propose a different approach starting by analyzing how a small perturbation of a Hamiltonian affects the parameters that minimize the energy within a family of parameterized quantum states. We derive a set of equations that allow us to compute the new minimum by solving a constrained linear system of equations that is obtained from measuring a series of observables on the unperturbed system. We then propose a discrete version of adiabatic quantum computing that can be implemented in a near-term device while at the same time is insensitive to the initialization of the parameters and to other limitations hindered in the optimization part of variational quantum algorithms. We compare our proposed algorithm with the variational quantum eigensolver on two classical optimization problems, namely MaxCut and number partitioning, and on a quantum-spin configuration problem, the transverse-field ising chain model, and confirm that our approach demonstrates superior performance.
Original languageEnglish
Article number015003
JournalQuantum Science and Technology
Volume10
Issue number1
Early online date16 Oct 2024
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 16 Oct 2024

Keywords

  • adiabatic quantum computing
  • hybrid
  • quantum/classical
  • early fault-tolerant

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