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arxiv 2504.15356 v1 pith:CWM4EFGM submitted 2025-04-21 quant-ph

Efficiently learning fermionic unitaries with few non-Gaussian gates

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Fermionic Gaussian unitaries are known to be efficiently learnable and simulatable. In this paper, we present a learning algorithm that learns an $n$-mode circuit containing $t$ parity-preserving non-Gaussian gates. While circuits with $t = \textrm{poly}(n)$ are unlikely to be efficiently learnable, for constant $t$, we present a polynomial-time algorithm for learning the description of the unknown fermionic circuit within a small diamond-distance error. Building on work that studies the state-learning version of this problem, our approach relies on learning approximate Gaussian unitaries that transform the circuit into one that acts non-trivially only on a constant number of Majorana operators. Our result also holds for the case where we have a qubit implementation of the fermionic unitary.

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