提出噪声下对称量子神经网络可训练性的统一判据。
A Coherence Law for Trainability in Noisy Equivariant Quantum Neural Networks

- 基于对称电路的梯度存活机制,建立因果与相干性联合约束。
- 实验证明梯度衰减由噪声深度与相干收缩共同决定,决定系数达0.979。
- 适用于研究对称量子模型在真实噪声环境下的训练可行性。
对称性赋予量子神经网络结构,但噪声存在时仍无法保证可训练性。本文探究何种物理量决定等变电路梯度是否能抵抗退相干,并提出一个简洁的训练判据。针对守恒电荷的U(1)等变积木电路,发现两个效应共同决定梯度可训练性:因果性限定梯度位于读出点的后向光锥内,且仅限于活跃电荷子空间;相干性则决定其通过投影读出可观测的非对角模态收缩导致的衰减速率。我们证明了无噪声梯度被限制在子空间光锥内的下界,该下界与总量子比特数无关。定义读出可见的对齐相干速率作为噪声生成器沿梯度携带模式的Rayleigh商。微扰开系统分析将其转化为一阶训练律。密度矩阵仿真证实,有限噪声下的梯度退化可由噪声深度与相干收缩累积变量单一描述,决定系数达0.979。最严苛测试来自具有大最坏情况速率但近乎零对齐速率的相关去相位信道——理论预测无梯度损失,模拟亦未见损失。子空间相干性优于所有对比的标准信道诊断,分析明确指出读出可见子空间相干性是连接等变架构、开放系统动力学与噪声可训练性的核心量。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Symmetry provides a quantum neural network structure, but on its own it does not keep the network trainable once noise is present. We ask which physical quantity decides whether the gradients of an equivariant circuit survive decoherence, and we answer with a compact training law. Working with U(1)-equivariant brickwork circuits that conserve a charge, we find that two distinct effects govern a trainable gradient. Causality fixes where the gradient can live, confining it to the backward light cone of the readout inside the active charge sector. Coherence then determines how fast it decays through the contraction of the off-diagonal sector modes that the projected readout can actually observe. We prove a light-cone reduction that pins the noiseless gradient to the sector-restricted cone with a lower bound independent of the total qubit number, and we define a readout-visible aligned coherence rate as a Rayleigh quotient of the noise generator along the gradient-carrying mode. A perturbative open-system analysis turns this rate into a leading-order training law. Density-matrix simulations then confirm that the finite-noise degradation follows a single accumulated variable built from noise depth and coherence contraction, with a coefficient of determination of 0.979. The sharpest test comes from a correlated-dephasing channel that has a large worst-case rate but a near-zero aligned rate. The law predicts no gradient loss for this channel, and none is seen. Sector coherence outperforms every standard channel diagnostic we compare it against, and the analysis identifies readout-visible sector coherence as the quantity that links equivariant architecture, open-system dynamics and noisy trainability.
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