Design of Fault-Tolerant Protocol and Variational Quantum Algorithms for Resource-Efficient Quantum Computation
Shiro Tamiya · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2024
Quantum computing offers promising potential for faster computation compared to classical computing, with the advantage of improved scaling as the problem size increases.Many fast quantum algorithms have been developed to solve specific problems using quantum computation, and they are expected to be applied to a wide range of fields, including quantum chemistry, condensed matter physics, and machine learning.However, the high cost of realizing physical systems to perform quantum computations makes resource-efficient implementation methods indispensable.In the first part of this thesis, we study the resource-efficient design of a fault-tolerant protocol based on quantum low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes.Scalable quantum computation to achieve the speed-ups over classical computation requires fault tolerance due to the vulnerability of quantum systems to noise.Fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC) expenses significant space and time overheads to achieve fault-tolerant quantum circuits from the original circuits intended to simulate.An FTQC protocol based on quantum LDPC codes has the attractive advantage of constant-space overhead, but has the disadvantage of requiring a long polynomial-time overhead.In this thesis, we present a polylogarithmic time overhead FTQC protocol based on quantum LDPC code, which is exponentially time efficient compared to conventional protocols while maintaining the advantage of the constant space overhead.This overhead is enjoyed even if the non-zero classical computation performing the decoding algorithms is considered.The second part of this thesis investigates the resource-efficient design of variational quantum algorithms (VQAs).The VQAs are a heuristic algorithm with promising applications in various fields.The VQAs can be performed by minimizing task-specific cost functions, typically defined as the expectation values of observables.However, it is known that the execution of variational quantum algorithms requires numerous quantum measurements, and their reduction is a significant challenge in algorithm implementation.In the first study of this part, we propose a new algorithm for calculating nonadiabatic couplings (NACs), which are important quantities in simulating molecular