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Jianming Luo1, Kaihan Lin1, Xing Gao1
1School of Materials, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518107, China.
Abstract:
Quantum simulation of dynamics in open quantum systems is crucial but poses a significant challenge due to the non-Hermitian nature leading to nonunitary evolution and the limited quantum resources on current quantum computers. Here we introduce a variational hybrid quantum-classical algorithm designed for simulating the time evolution governed by the Lindblad master equation. Our approach involves on a stochastic unveiling of the density matrix, transforming the Lindblad equation into a wave function-based quantum state diffusion (QSD) method with the aim of reducing qubit requirements. We then apply variational quantum simulation (VQS) to efficiently capture the nonunitary evolution in QSD. We demonstrate our QSD-VQS algorithm by investigating the quantum dynamics in a two-level system subjected to an amplitude damping channel and a four-level transverse field Ising model within a dissipative environment including time-independent and periodic Hamiltonian cases. The results reveal its promising utility with upcoming hardware in the near future.
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