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Generation and Coherent Control of Pulsed Quantum Frequency Combs
Published on: June 8, 2018
Implementation of quantum compression on IBM quantum computers
Matej Pivoluska1,2, Martin Plesch3,4
1Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 04, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
Abstract:
Advances in development of quantum computing processors brought ample opportunities to test the performance of various quantum algorithms with practical implementations. In this paper we report on implementations of quantum compression algorithm that can efficiently compress unknown quantum information. We restricted ourselves to compression of three pure qubits into two qubits, as the complexity of even such a simple implementation is barely within the reach of today's quantum processors. We implemented the algorithm on IBM quantum processors with two different topological layouts-a fully connected triangle processor and a partially connected line processor. It turns out that the incomplete connectivity of the line processor affects the performance only minimally. On the other hand, it turns out that the transpilation, i.e. compilation of the circuit into gates physically available to the quantum processor, crucially influences the result. We also have seen that the compression followed by immediate decompression is, even for such a simple case, on the edge or even beyond the capabilities of currently available quantum processors.
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