Scaling Portfolio Diversification with Quantum Circuit Cutting Techniques

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08947v1
• Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:08:29 GMT
• Title: Scaling Portfolio Diversification with Quantum Circuit Cutting Techniques
• Authors: Vicente P. Soloviev, Antonio Márquez Romero, Josh Kirsopp, Michal Krompiec,
• Abstract summary: We introduce QuantCut, an automatic framework for circuit cutting that enables efficient execution of large quantum circuits.<n>We apply QuantCut to a 71-qubit QAOA circuit ansatz for portfolio diversification in the S&P 500 stock market, aiming to maximize asset diversification.
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• Abstract: Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithms (QAOA) have demonstrated a strong potential in addressing graph-based optimization problems. However, the execution of large-scale quantum circuits remains constrained by the limitations of current quantum hardware. In this work, we introduce QuantCut, an automatic framework for circuit cutting that enables efficient execution of large quantum circuits by decomposing entangling two-qubit gates into manageable sub-circuits. Specifically, we focus on gate-cutting techniques. We apply QuantCut to a 71-qubit QAOA circuit ansatz for portfolio diversification in the S&P 500 stock market, aiming to maximize asset diversification. Our approach iteratively optimizes the expectation value while leveraging circuit-cutting strategies to reduce the qubit register size. To validate our framework, we first conduct experiments on a toy model using quantum noise simulations for the Max-Cut problem, analyzing performance improvements with an increasing number of layers. Subsequently, we extend our methodology to a real-world financial optimization scenario, showing competitive results. The results suggest that QuantCut effectively facilitates large-scale quantum computations with circuit-cutting technologies.

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