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Measuring All Compatible Operators in One Series of Single-Qubit Measurements Using Unitary Transformations

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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
卷 16, 期 4, 页码 2400-2409

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00008

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  1. Zapata Computing Inc.
  2. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
  3. Google Quantum Research Program
  4. Mitacs Globalink Program

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The Variational Quantum Eigensolver approach to the electronic structure problem on a quantum computer involves measurement of the Hamiltonian expectation value. Formally, quantum mechanics allows one to measure all mutually commuting or compatible operators simultaneously. Unfortunately, the current hardware permits measuring only a much more limited subset of operators that share a common tensor product eigen-basis. We introduce unitary transformations that transform any fully commuting group of operators to a group that can be measured on current hardware. These unitary operations can be encoded as a sequence of Clifford gates and let us not only measure much larger groups of terms but also to obtain these groups efficiently on a classical computer. The problem of finding the minimum number of fully commuting groups of terms covering the whole Hamiltonian is found to be equivalent to the minimum clique cover problem for a graph representing Hamiltonian terms as vertices and commutativity between them as edges. Tested on a set of molecular electronic Hamiltonians with up to SO thousand terms, the introduced technique allows for the reduction of the number of separately measurable operator groups down to few hundreds, thus achieving up to 2 orders of magnitude reduction. Based on the test set results, the obtained gain scales at least linearly with the number of qubits.

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