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Phases and phase transition in Grover's algorithm with systematic noise

Quantum Physics 2025-04-15 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

While limitations on quantum computation by Markovian environmental noise are well-understood in generality, their behavior for different quantum circuits and noise realizations can be less universal. Here we consider a canonical quantum algorithm - Grover's algorithm for unordered search on LL qubits - in the presence of systematic noise. This allows us to write the behavior as a random Floquet unitary, which we show is well-characterized by random matrix theory (RMT). The RMT analysis enables analytical predictions for phases and phase transitions of the many-body dynamics. We find two separate transitions. At moderate disorder δc,gapL1\delta_{c,\mathrm{gap}}\sim L^{-1}, there is a ergodicity breaking transition such that a finite-dimensional manifold remains non-ergodic for δ<δc,gap\delta < \delta_{c,\mathrm{gap}}. Computational power is lost at a much smaller disorder, δc,compL1/22L/2\delta_{c,\mathrm{comp}} \sim L^{-1/2}2^{-L/2}. We comment on relevance to non-systematic noise in realistic quantum computers, including cold atom, trapped ion, and superconducting platforms.

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@article{arxiv.2406.10344,
  title  = {Phases and phase transition in Grover's algorithm with systematic noise},
  author = {Sasanka Dowarah and Chuanwei Zhang and Vedika Khemani and Michael H. Kolodrubetz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.10344},
  year   = {2025}
}

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14 pages, 11 figures

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