Beyond unital noise in variational quantum algorithms: noise-induced barren plateaus and fixed points

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08721v4
• Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 06:40:35 GMT
• Title: Beyond unital noise in variational quantum algorithms: noise-induced barren plateaus and fixed points
• Authors: P. Singkanipa, D. A. Lidar,
• Abstract summary: Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) hold much promise but face the challenge of exponentially small gradients. Noise-induced barren plateaus (NIBPs) are a type of unavoidable BP arising from open system effects. We identify the associated phenomenon of noise-induced fixed points (NIFP) of the VQA cost function and prove its existence for both unital and HS-contractive non-unital noise maps.
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• Abstract: Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) hold much promise but face the challenge of exponentially small gradients. Unmitigated, this barren plateau (BP) phenomenon leads to an exponential training overhead for VQAs. Perhaps the most pernicious are noise-induced barren plateaus (NIBPs), a type of unavoidable BP arising from open system effects, which have so far been shown to exist for unital noise maps. Here, we generalize the study of NIBPs to more general completely positive, trace-preserving maps, establishing the existence of NIBPs in the unital case and a class of non-unital maps we call Hilbert-Schmidt (HS)-contractive. The latter includes amplitude damping. We tighten to logarithmic earlier bounds on the circuit depth at which an NIBP appears. We identify the associated phenomenon of noise-induced fixed points (NIFP) of the VQA cost function and prove its existence for both unital and HS-contractive non-unital noise maps. Along the way, we extend the parameter shift rule of VQAs to the noisy setting. We provide rigorous bounds in terms of the relevant parameters that give rise to NIBPs and NIFPs, along with numerical simulations of the depolarizing and amplitude-damping maps that illustrate our analytical results.

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