Rapid counter-diabatic sweeps in lattice gauge adiabatic quantum computing. (15th April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hartmann, Andreas; Lechner, Wolfgang
• Is Part Of: New journal of physics. Volume 21:Number 4(2019:Apr.)
• Publication Date: 2019-04-15
• Subjects: quantum computing -- adiabatic quantum computing -- counter-diabatic driving; Physics -- Periodicals; Physics; Periodicals; 530.05
• DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab14a0
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1367-2630

Abstract

Abstract: We present a coherent counter-diabatic quantum protocol to prepare ground states in the lattice gauge mapping of all-to-all Ising models (LHZ) with considerably enhanced final ground state fidelity compared to a quantum annealing protocol. We make use of a variational method to find approximate counter-diabatic Hamiltonians that has recently been introduced by Sels and Polkovnikov (2017 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 114 3909). The resulting additional terms in our protocol are time-dependent local on-site y-magnetic fields. These additional Hamiltonian terms do not increase the minimal energy gap, but instead compensate for the Berry curvature. A single free parameter is introduced which is optimized via classical updates. The protocol consists only of local and nearest-neighbor terms which makes it attractive for implementation in near term experiments.