Classical shadows of fermions with particle number symmetry
Abstract
We consider classical shadows of fermion wavefunctions with particles occupying modes. We prove that all -Reduced Density Matrices (RDMs) may be simultaneously estimated to an average variance of using at most measurements in random single-particle bases that conserve particle number, and provide an estimator for any -RDM with classical complexity. Our sample complexity is a super-exponential improvement over the scaling of prior approaches as can be arbitrarily larger than , which is common in natural problems. Our method, in the worst-case of half-filling, still provides a factor of advantage in sample complexity, and also estimates all -reduced density matrices, applicable to estimating overlaps with all single Slater determinants, with at most samples, which is additionally independent of .
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@article{arxiv.2208.08964,
title = {Classical shadows of fermions with particle number symmetry},
author = {Guang Hao Low},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.08964},
year = {2024}
}
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26 pages. V2: Faster estimator