@article {2919, title = {Cross-Platform Comparison of Arbitrary Quantum Computations}, year = {2021}, month = {7/27/2021}, abstract = {

As we approach the era of quantum advantage, when quantum computers (QCs) can outperform any classical computer on particular tasks, there remains the difficult challenge of how to validate their performance. While algorithmic success can be easily verified in some instances such as number factoring or oracular algorithms, these approaches only provide pass/fail information for a single QC. On the other hand, a comparison between different QCs on the same arbitrary circuit provides a lower-bound for generic validation: a quantum computation is only as valid as the agreement between the results produced on different QCs. Such an approach is also at the heart of evaluating metrological standards such as disparate atomic clocks. In this paper, we report a cross-platform QC comparison using randomized and correlated measurements that results in a wealth of information on the QC systems. We execute several quantum circuits on widely different physical QC platforms and analyze the cross-platform fidelities.

}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.11387}, author = {Daiwei Zhu and Ze-Pei Cian and Crystal Noel and Andrew Risinger and Debopriyo Biswas and Laird Egan and Yingyue Zhu and Alaina M. Green and Cinthia Huerta Alderete and Nhung H. Nguyen and Qingfeng Wang and Andrii Maksymov and Yunseong Nam and Marko Cetina and Norbert M. Linke and Mohammad Hafezi and Christopher Monroe} } @article {2570, title = {Quantum walks and Dirac cellular automata on a programmable trapped-ion quantum computer}, year = {2020}, month = {2/6/2020}, abstract = {

The quantum walk formalism is a widely used and highly successful framework for modeling quantum systems, such as simulations of the Dirac equation, different dynamics in both the low and high energy regime, and for developing a wide range of quantum algorithms. Here we present the circuit-based implementation of a discrete-time quantum walk in position space on a five-qubit trapped-ion quantum processor. We encode the space of walker positions in particular multi-qubit states and program the system to operate with different quantum walk parameters, experimentally realizing a Dirac cellular automaton with tunable mass parameter. The quantum walk circuits and position state mapping scale favorably to a larger model and physical systems, allowing the implementation of any algorithm based on discrete-time quantum walks algorithm and the dynamics associated with the discretized version of the Dirac equation.

}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02537}, author = {C. Huerta Alderete and Shivani Singh and Nhung H. Nguyen and Daiwei Zhu and Radhakrishnan Balu and Christopher Monroe and C. M. Chandrashekar and Norbert M. Linke} }