Mixer-phaser Ansätze for quantum optimization with hard constraints

Abstract

We introduce multiple parametrized circuit ansätze and present the results of a numerical study comparing their performance with a standard Quantum Alternating Operator Ansatz approach. The ansätze are inspired by mixing and phase separation in the QAOA, and also motivated by compilation considerations with the aim of running on near-term superconducting quantum processors. The methods are tested on random instances of a quadratic binary constrained optimization problem that is fully connected for which the space of feasible solutions has constant Hamming weight.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jun 29, 2022
Source ID
10.1007/s42484-022-00069-x

Entities

People

  • Davide Venturelli
  • Eleanor Rieffel
  • Ryan Larose

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory
  • Ames Research Center
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Programming and Software Development.
  • Operations Research
  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Quantum Computing
  • Space