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Optimizing quantum circuit parameters via SDP

Quantum Physics 2022-09-05 v1

Abstract

In recent years, parameterized quantum circuits have become a major tool to design quantum algorithms for optimization problems. The challenge in fully taking advantage of a given family of parameterized circuits lies in finding a good set of parameters in a non-convex landscape that can grow exponentially to the number of parameters. We introduce a new framework for optimizing parameterized quantum circuits: round SDP solutions to circuit parameters. Within this framework, we propose an algorithm that produces approximate solutions for a quantum optimization problem called Quantum Max Cut. The rounding algorithm runs in polynomial time to the number of parameters regardless of the underlying interaction graph. The resulting 0.562-approximation algorithm for generic instances of Quantum Max Cut improves on the previously known best algorithms, which give approximation ratios of less than 0.54.

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@article{arxiv.2209.00789,
  title  = {Optimizing quantum circuit parameters via SDP},
  author = {Eunou Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.00789},
  year   = {2022}
}