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Scalable Bayesian Hamiltonian learning

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arxiv 1912.07636 v1 pith:H6CSW5DG submitted 2019-12-16 quant-ph cond-mat.mes-hallcond-mat.quant-gascond-mat.str-el

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As the size of quantum devices continues to grow, the development of scalable methods to characterise and diagnose noise is becoming an increasingly important problem. Recent methods have shown how to efficiently estimate Hamiltonians in principle, but they are poorly conditioned and can only characterize the system up to a scalar factor, making them difficult to use in practice. In this work we present a Bayesian methodology, called Bayesian Hamiltonian Learning (BHL), that addresses both of these issues by making use of any or all, of the following: well-characterised experimental control of Hamiltonian couplings, the preparation of multiple states, and the availability of any prior information for the Hamiltonian. Importantly, BHL can be used online as an adaptive measurement protocol, updating estimates and their corresponding uncertainties as experimental data become available. In addition, we show that multiple input states and control fields enable BHL to reconstruct Hamiltonians that are neither generic nor spatially local. We demonstrate the scalability and accuracy of our method with numerical simulations on up to 100 qubits. These practical results are complemented by several theoretical contributions. We prove that a $k$-body Hamiltonian $H$ whose correlation matrix has a spectral gap $\Delta$ can be estimated to precision $\varepsilon$ with only $\tilde{O}\bigl(n^{3k}/(\varepsilon \Delta)^{3/2}\bigr)$ measurements. We use two subroutines that may be of independent interest: First, an algorithm to approximate a steady state of $H$ starting from an arbitrary input that converges factorially in the number of samples; and second, an algorithm to estimate the expectation values of $m$ Pauli operators with weight $\le k$ to precision $\epsilon$ using only $O(\epsilon^{-2} 3^k \log m)$ measurements, which quadratically improves a recent result by Cotler and Wilczek.

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