Differentiation of Linear Optical Circuits

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07997v2
• Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 19:06:12 GMT
• Title: Differentiation of Linear Optical Circuits
• Authors: Giovanni de Felice and Christopher Cortlett
• Abstract summary: Experimental setups based on linear optical circuits and single photon sources offer a promising platform for near-term quantum machine learning. We show that the derivative of the expectation values of a linear optical circuit can be computed by sampling from a larger circuit. In order to express derivative in terms of expectation values, we develop a circuit extraction procedure based on unitary dilation.
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• Abstract: Experimental setups based on linear optical circuits and single photon sources offer a promising platform for near-term quantum machine learning. However, current applications are all based on support vector machines and gradient-free optimization methods. Differentiating an optical circuit over a phase parameter poses difficulty because it results in an operator on the Fock space which is not unitary. In this paper, we show that the derivative of the expectation values of a linear optical circuit can be computed by sampling from a larger circuit, using one additional photon. In order to express the derivative in terms of expectation values, we develop a circuit extraction procedure based on unitary dilation. We end by showing that the full gradient of a universal programmable interferometer can be estimated using polynomially many queries to a boson sampling device. This is in contrast to the qubit setting, where exponentially many parameters are needed to cover the space of unitaries. Our algorithm enables applications of photonic technologies to machine learning, quantum chemistry and optimization, powered by gradient descent.

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