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Hamiltonian singular value transformation and inverse block encoding

Quantum Physics 2021-06-01 v2

Abstract

The quantum singular value transformation is a powerful quantum algorithm that allows one to apply a polynomial transformation to the singular values of a matrix that is embedded as a block of a unitary transformation. This paper shows how to perform the quantum singular value transformation for a matrix that can be embedded as a block of a Hamiltonian. The transformation can be implemented in a purely Hamiltonian context by the alternating application of Hamiltonians for chosen intervals: it is an example of the Quantum Alternating Operator Ansatz (generalized QAOA). We also show how to use the Hamiltonian quantum singular value transformation to perform inverse block encoding to implement a unitary of which a given Hamiltonian is a block. Inverse block encoding leads to novel procedures for matrix multiplication and for solving differential equations on quantum information processors in a purely Hamiltonian fashion.

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@article{arxiv.2104.01410,
  title  = {Hamiltonian singular value transformation and inverse block encoding},
  author = {Seth Lloyd and Bobak T. Kiani and David R. M. Arvidsson-Shukur and Samuel Bosch and Giacomo De Palma and William M. Kaminsky and Zi-Wen Liu and Milad Marvian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.01410},
  year   = {2021}
}

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11 pages, plain TeX

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