The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
Workshop: Third International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software
Authors: Gideon Uchehara, Tor Aamodt, and Olivia Di Matteo (University of British Columbia)
Abstract: Recent works have demonstrated that large quantum circuits can be cut and decomposed into smaller clusters of quantum circuits with fewer qubits that can be executed independently on a small quantum computer. Classical post-processing then combines the results from each cluster to reconstruct the output of the original quantum circuit. However, the runtime for such hybrid quantum-classical algorithms is exponential in the number of cuts on a circuit. We propose Rotation-Inspired Circuit Cut Optimization (RICCO), an alternative method which reduces the post-processing overhead of circuit cutting, at the cost of solving optimization problem. RICCO introduces unitary rotations at cut locations to rotate the quantum state such that expectation values with respect to one set of observables are maximized and others are set to zero. We demonstrate practical application of RICCO to VQE by classically simulating a small instance of VQE and comparing it to one of the existing circuit-cutting methods.
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