用经典方法训练浅层量子电路,模拟量子相位估计算法,实现分子能量精准计算。
An Analytically Trained Variational Surrogate for Quantum Phase Estimation on NISQ Hardware

- 通过经典计算的Dirichlet核直接构建训练目标,避免量子模拟瓶颈。
- 在真实量子硬件上实现化学精度(1 kcal/mol)内的氢分子基态能量预测。
- 适合资源受限的NISQ设备,为分子模拟提供可扩展的轻量级方案。
量子相位估计(QPE)是分子基态能量计算的核心算法,但其深层电路结构难以在噪声中等规模量子(NISQ)设备上直接运行。本文提出一种基于解析理论的变分代理框架:用浅层变分量子电路(VQC)直接拟合QPE测量分布,无需任何量子电路仿真。训练目标完全由经典方法计算,利用全组态相互作用(FCI)基态能量、辅助量子比特数和时间演化参数,通过Dirichlet核表达,彻底规避了以往代理方法的指数级模拟开销。我们以对称缩减的氢分子哈密顿量为例,在IBM Quantum硬件上开展四阶段实验:第一阶段对比线性与全连接纠缠器拓扑结构,结合与不结合XpXm动态退耦(DD),在四种分布距离度量下(海林格距离、保真度误差、总变差距离、Jensen-Shannon散度),确定线性纠缠器更优;第二阶段测试线性纠缠器在不同深度(p=1至5)下的表现,发现单层深度在硬件噪声下最优;第三阶段将该配置应用于简化型R_Y-CZ ansatz,比较理想与噪声模拟器训练参数的性能;第四阶段补充分析在p=8、64时深度与退耦效果的依赖关系。最终,该框架仅用线性尺度的VQC即实现了对QPE的忠实模拟,成功将基态能量恢复至化学精度(1 kcal/mol)以内,为NISQ设备上的分子能量估算提供了可扩展、高效率的新范式。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE) is a foundational algorithm for molecular ground-state energy estimation, but its deep circuit requirements make direct hardware execution impractical on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices. We present an analytically grounded variational surrogate framework in which a shallow Variational Quantum Circuit (VQC) is trained to reproduce the QPE measurement distribution without any quantum circuit simulation. The training target is computed entirely classically via the Dirichlet kernel, evaluated directly from the Full Configuration Interaction (FCI) ground-state energy, the ancilla qubit count, and the time evolution parameter, eliminating the exponentially scaling simulation bottleneck of prior surrogate approaches. We apply this framework to the hydrogen molecule (H$_2$) with a symmetry-tapered Hamiltonian, conducting a four-stage experimental investigation on IBM Quantum hardware. Stage 1 compares linear and full entangler topologies for the $R_Y$-$R_Z$-$CZ$ ansatz, with and without XpXm Dynamical Decoupling (DD), across four distributional metrics (Hellinger distance, fidelity error, total variation distance, Jensen-Shannon divergence), identifying the linear entangler as optimal. Stage 2 varies VQC layers ($p=1$ to $5$) for the linear-entangler ansatz, identifying single-layer depth as optimal under hardware noise. Stage 3 applies this configuration to the reduced $R_Y$-$CZ$ ansatz, comparing ideal and noisy simulator-trained parameters. A supplementary noise analysis at $p \in \{8,64\}$ characterizes the depth-dependent interplay between circuit depth and DD effectiveness. The framework enables faithful QPE mimicry using a linearly scaling VQC, recovering the ground-state energy within the chemical accuracy threshold (1 kcal/mol), constituting a scalable, hardware-efficient paradigm for QPE-based molecular energy estimation on NISQ devices.
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