首次实现量子相对熵的直接估计,可跨平台计算且无梯度消失问题。
Estimating quantum relative entropies on quantum computers
- 设计直接估算量子相对熵的算法,电路规模仅2n+1个量子门。
- 数值实验显示无退化悬崖现象,且能发现新超加性量子信道实例。
- 适合研究量子信息理论与量子机器学习交叉问题的研究者。
量子相对熵作为经典Kullback-Leibler散度的量子推广,是衡量量子态可区分性的核心工具,在量子信息科学中具有关键作用。然而,如何在量子计算机上高效估计两个未知量子态之间的量子相对熵仍是重大挑战。本文提出首个直接估计量子相对熵及Petz-Rényi散度的量子算法,解决了[Phys. Rev. A 109, 032431 (2024)]和[IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 70, 5653-5680 (2024)]中提出的开放问题。该算法电路规模最多为$2n+1$,其中$n$为量子态的量子比特数,且可直接应用于分布式场景,即待比较的量子态分布于异构量子计算机上。我们证明该损失函数为算子凸函数,确保局部极小值即为全局极小值。通过数值实验验证方法有效性,未观察到退化悬崖现象。作为应用,我们将该算法用于研究量子信道容量的超加性,数值模拟揭示了新的表现出严格超加性的比特信道实例,展示了量子机器学习解决原生量子问题的潜力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Quantum relative entropy, a quantum generalization of the renowned Kullback-Leibler divergence, serves as a fundamental measure of the distinguishability between quantum states and plays a pivotal role in quantum information science. Despite its importance, efficiently estimating quantum relative entropy between two quantum states on quantum computers remains a significant challenge. In this work, we propose the first quantum algorithm for directly estimating quantum relative entropy and Petz Renyi divergence from two unknown quantum states on quantum computers, addressing open problems highlighted in [Phys. Rev. A 109, 032431 (2024)] and [IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 70, 5653-5680 (2024)]. Notably, the circuit size of our algorithm is at most $2n+1$ with $n$ being the number of qubits in the quantum states and it is directly applicable to distributed scenarios, where quantum states to be compared are hosted on cross-platform quantum computers. We prove that our loss function is operator-convex, ensuring that any local minimum is also a global minimum. We validate the effectiveness of our method through numerical experiments and observe the absence of the barren plateau phenomenon. As an application, we employ our algorithm to investigate the superadditivity of quantum channel capacity. Numerical simulations reveal new examples of qubit channels exhibiting strict superadditivity of coherent information, highlighting the potential of quantum machine learning to address quantum-native problems.
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