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Classical shadows of fermions with particle number symmetry

Quantum Physics 2024-07-26 v2

Abstract

We consider classical shadows of fermion wavefunctions with η\eta particles occupying nn modes. We prove that all kk-Reduced Density Matrices (RDMs) may be simultaneously estimated to an average variance of ϵ2\epsilon^{2} using at most (ηk)(1ηkn)k1+n1+nk/ϵ2\binom{\eta}{k}\big(1-\frac{\eta-k}{n}\big)^{k}\frac{1+n}{1+n-k}/\epsilon^{2} measurements in random single-particle bases that conserve particle number, and provide an estimator for any kk-RDM with O(k2η)\mathcal{O}(k^2\eta) classical complexity. Our sample complexity is a super-exponential improvement over the O((nk)kϵ2)\mathcal{O}(\binom{n}{k}\frac{\sqrt{k}}{\epsilon^{2}}) scaling of prior approaches as nn can be arbitrarily larger than η\eta, which is common in natural problems. Our method, in the worst-case of half-filling, still provides a factor of 4k4^{k} advantage in sample complexity, and also estimates all η\eta-reduced density matrices, applicable to estimating overlaps with all single Slater determinants, with at most O(1ϵ2)\mathcal{O}(\frac{1}{\epsilon^{2}}) samples, which is additionally independent of η\eta.

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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