Escaping barren plateaus in approximate quantum compiling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.09191v1
• Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 15:44:52 GMT
• Title: Escaping barren plateaus in approximate quantum compiling
• Authors: Niall F. Robertson, Albert Akhriev, Jiri Vala and Sergiy Zhuk
• Abstract summary: Quantum compilation provides a method to translate quantum algorithms at a high level of abstraction into their implementations as quantum circuits on real hardware. One approach to quantum compiling is to design a parameterised circuit and to use techniques from optimisation to find the parameters that minimise the distance between the parameterised circuit and the target circuit of interest. Here we develop and implement a set of related techniques such as they can be applied to classically assisted quantum compiling.
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• Abstract: Quantum compilation provides a method to translate quantum algorithms at a high level of abstraction into their implementations as quantum circuits on real hardware. One approach to quantum compiling is to design a parameterised circuit and to use techniques from optimisation to find the parameters that minimise the distance between the parameterised circuit and the target circuit of interest. While promising, such an approach typically runs into the obstacle of barren plateaus - i.e. large regions of parameter space in which the gradient vanishes. A number of recent works focusing on so-called quantum assisted quantum compiling have developed new techniques to induce gradients in some particular cases. Here we develop and implement a set of related techniques such that they can be applied to classically assisted quantum compiling. We consider both approximate state preparation and approximate circuit preparation and show that, in both cases, we can significantly improve convergence with the approach developed in this work.

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