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Quantum Resources for Pure Thermal Shadows

2024/09/09 by Sharma, Arnav, Kevin Obenland, Obenland, Kevin
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2409.05777

openalex publication_date 2024/09/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Calculating the properties of Gibbs states is an important task in Quantum Chemistry and Quantum Machine Learning. Previous work has proposed a quantum algorithm which predicts Gibbs state expectation values for M observables from only logM measurements, by combining classical shadows and quantum signal processing for a new estimator called Pure Thermal Shadows. In this work, we perform resource analysis for the circuits used in this algorithm, finding that quantum signal processing contributes most significantly to gate count and depth as system size increases. The implementation we use for this also features an improvement to the algorithm in the form of more efficient random unitary generation steps. Moreover, given the ramifications of the resource analysis, we argue that its potential utility could be constrained to Fault Tolerant devices sampling from the Gibbs state of a large, cool system.

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