Journal
PRX QUANTUM
Volume 2, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PRXQuantum.2.020332
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Funding
- Science Foundation Ireland [15/CDA/3240]
- Schrodinger Fellowship
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network (SHARCNET)
- Compute Canada
- Google Quantum Research Award
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) AI chair program
- Department of Energy [DOE desc0020165]
- Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) [15/CDA/3240] Funding Source: Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
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In this study, we optimized the transport of Majorana zero modes in superconducting nanowires using differentiable programming and natural evolution strategies, revealing novel and efficient motion strategies with the successful implementation of the jump-move-jump protocol. Our results demonstrate that machine learning can be efficiently applied to quantum many-body dynamical systems for the development of large-scale quantum technology.
Quantum control, which refers to the active manipulation of physical systems described by the laws of quantum mechanics, constitutes an essential ingredient for the development of quantum technology. Here we apply differentiable programming (DP) and natural evolution strategies (NES) to the optimal transport of Majorana zero modes in superconducting nanowires, a key element to the success of Majorana-based topological quantum computation. We formulate the motion control of Majorana zero modes as an optimization problem for which we propose a new categorization of four different regimes with respect to the critical velocity of the system and the total transport time. In addition to correctly recovering the anticipated smooth protocols in the adiabatic regime, our algorithms uncover efficient but strikingly counterintuitive motion strategies in the nonadiabatic regime. The emergent picture reveals a simple but high-fidelity strategy that makes use of pulselike jumps at the beginning and the end of the protocol with a period of constant velocity in between the jumps, which we dub the jump-move-jump protocol. We provide a transparent semianalytical picture, which uses the sudden approximation and a reformulation of the Majorana motion in a moving frame, to illuminate the key characteristics of the jump-move-jump control strategy. We verify that the jump-move-jump protocol remains robust against the presence of interactions or disorder, and corroborate its high efficacy on a realistic proximity-coupled nanowire model. Our results demonstrate that machine learning for quantum control can be applied efficiently to quantum many-body dynamical systems with performance levels that make it relevant to the realization of large-scale quantum technology.
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