State of practice: evaluating GPU performance of state vector and tensor network methods

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06188v1
• Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 09:22:21 GMT
• Title: State of practice: evaluating GPU performance of state vector and tensor network methods
• Authors: Marzio Vallero, Flavio Vella, Paolo Rech
• Abstract summary: This article investigates the limits of current state-of-the-art simulation techniques on a test bench made of eight widely used quantum subroutines. We highlight how to select the best simulation strategy, obtaining a speedup of up to an order of magnitude.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: The frontier of quantum computing (QC) simulation on classical hardware is quickly reaching the hard scalability limits for computational feasibility. Nonetheless, there is still a need to simulate large quantum systems classically, as the Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices are yet to be considered fault tolerant and performant enough in terms of operations per second. Each of the two main exact simulation techniques, state vector and tensor network simulators, boasts specific limitations. The exponential memory requirement of state vector simulation, when compared to the qubit register sizes of currently available quantum computers, quickly saturates the capacity of the top HPC machines currently available. Tensor network contraction approaches, which encode quantum circuits into tensor networks and then contract them over an output bit string to obtain its probability amplitude, still fall short of the inherent complexity of finding an optimal contraction path, which maps to a max-cut problem on a dense mesh, a notably NP-hard problem. This article aims at investigating the limits of current state-of-the-art simulation techniques on a test bench made of eight widely used quantum subroutines, each in 31 different configurations, with special emphasis on performance. We then correlate the performance measures of the simulators with the metrics that characterise the benchmark circuits, identifying the main reasons behind the observed performance trend. From our observations, given the structure of a quantum circuit and the number of qubits, we highlight how to select the best simulation strategy, obtaining a speedup of up to an order of magnitude.

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