QuICS Special Seminar: Louis Paletta

Date
Mon, Nov 18, 2024 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Location
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: To be announced

Description

Title:  Robust sparse IQP sampling in constant depth
Speaker:  Louis Paletta (Inria)
Time:  Monday, November 18, 2024 - 2:30pm
Location:  ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: To be announced

Between NISQ (noisy intermediate scale quantum) approaches without any proof of robust quantum advantage and fully fault-tolerant quantum computation, we propose a scheme to achieve a provable superpolynomial quantum advantage (under some widely accepted complexity conjectures) that is robust to noise with minimal error correction requirements. We choose a class of sampling problems with commuting gates known as sparse IQP (Instantaneous Quantum Polynomial-time) circuits and we ensure its fault-tolerant implementation by introducing the tetrahelix code. This new code is obtained by merging several tetrahedral codes (3D color codes) and has the following properties: each sparse IQP gate admits a transversal implementation, and the depth of the logical circuit can be traded for its width. Combining those, we obtain a depth-1 implementation of any sparse IQP circuit up to the preparation of encoded states. This comes at the cost of a space overhead which is only polylogarithmic in the width of the original circuit. We furthermore show that the state preparation can also be performed in constant depth with a single step of feed-forward from classical computation. Our construction thus exhibits a robust superpolynomial quantum advantage for a sampling problem implemented on a constant depth circuit with a single round of measurement and feed-forward.
Reference: https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2024-05-06-1337/

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