TY - JOUR
T1 - Calculation of Gibbs partition function with imaginary time evolution on near-term quantum computers
AU - Matsumoto, Keisuke
AU - Shingu, Yuta
AU - Endo, Suguru
AU - Kawabata, Shiro
AU - Watabe, Shohei
AU - Nikuni, Tetsuro
AU - Hakoshima, Hideaki
AU - Matsuzaki, Yuichiro
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers MEXT Japan and JST presto (Grant No. JPMJPR1919) Japan. S.W. was supported by Nanotech CUPAL, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). This paper was partly based on results obtained from a project, JPNP16007, commissioned by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Japan. We performed the numerical calculations in Figs. –, Figs. , and by using Qiskit, an open-source library for numerical simulations of quantum algorithms provided by Ref. .
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PY - 2022/4
Y1 - 2022/4
N2 - The Gibbs partition function is an important quantity in describing statistical properties of a system in thermodynamic equilibrium. There are several proposals to calculate the partition functions on near-term quantum computers. However, the existing schemes require many copies of the Gibbs states to perform an extrapolation for the calculation of the partition function, which could be costly performed on the near-term quantum computers. We propose a scheme to calculate the Gibbs function with the imaginary time evolution. After preparing Gibbs states with different temperatures by using the imaginary time evolution, we measure the overlap between them on a quantum circuit, which allows us to calculate the Gibbs partition function. Our scheme requires only 2N qubits to calculate the Gibbs function of N qubits.
AB - The Gibbs partition function is an important quantity in describing statistical properties of a system in thermodynamic equilibrium. There are several proposals to calculate the partition functions on near-term quantum computers. However, the existing schemes require many copies of the Gibbs states to perform an extrapolation for the calculation of the partition function, which could be costly performed on the near-term quantum computers. We propose a scheme to calculate the Gibbs function with the imaginary time evolution. After preparing Gibbs states with different temperatures by using the imaginary time evolution, we measure the overlap between them on a quantum circuit, which allows us to calculate the Gibbs partition function. Our scheme requires only 2N qubits to calculate the Gibbs function of N qubits.
KW - Gibbs partition function
KW - NISQ
KW - quantum computer
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U2 - 10.35848/1347-4065/ac5152
DO - 10.35848/1347-4065/ac5152
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85127249176
VL - 61
JO - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers & Short Notes
JF - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers & Short Notes
SN - 0021-4922
IS - 4
M1 - 042002
ER -