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Andisheh Khedri

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The impact of noise on the simulation of NMR spectroscopy on NISQ devices

With the surge of quantum computing platforms that continue to push the boundaries of capabilities of noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers, there is a growing interest in finding relevant applications and quantifying the corresponding error budgets. We present a simulation of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy of small organic molecules on publicly available cloud quantum computers. We are using two quantum computing platforms, namely IBM's quantum processors based on superconducting qubits and IonQ's Aria trapped ion quantum computer addressed via Amazon Braket. We analyze the impact of noise on the obtained NMR spectra, and we formulate an effective decoherence rate that quantifies the threshold noise that our proposed algorithm can tolerate. We show that the effective decoherence rate can be calculated using simple fidelity metrics that are available by cloud quantum computing providers. Our investigation paves the way to better employ such application-driven quantum tasks on current noisy quantum devices.

quant-ph

Demonstration of system-bath physics on a gate-based quantum computer

Algorithmic cooling can be used to find correlated states of many-body quantum systems. It is based on quantum circuits that perform nonunitary operations, whose implementation can be challenging on near-term quantum computers. In this work we develop a method that uses inherent qubit noise to implement nonunitary operations and algorithmic cooling. In our approach, qubit decay during quantum computation is used to simulate dissipation of auxiliary-spin bath, which cools down a simulated system towards its ground state. We test the algorithm on IBM-Q devices and demonstrate the relaxation of system spins to ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic ordering, controlled by the definition of the system Hamiltonian. The ordering is stable as long as the algorithm is run. We are able to perform cooling and state stabilization for global systems of up to three system spins and four auxiliary spins. Our work paves the way for useful quantum simulations of many-body quantum systems on near-term quantum computers.

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Fate of exceptional points in the presence of nonlinearities

The non-Hermitian dynamics of open systems deal with how intricate coherent effects of a closed system intertwine with the impact of coupling to an environment. The system-environment dynamics can then lead to so-called exceptional points, which are the open-system marker of phase transitions, i.e., the closing of spectral gaps in the complex spectrum. Even in the ubiquitous example of the damped harmonic oscillator, the dissipative environment can lead to an exceptional point, separating between under-damped and over-damped dynamics at a point of critical damping. Here, we examine the fate of this exceptional point in the presence of strong correlations, i.e., for a nonlinear oscillator. By employing a functional renormalization group approach, we identify non-perturbative regimes of this model where the nonlinearity makes the system more robust against the influence of dissipation and can remove the exceptional point altogether. The melting of the exceptional point occurs above a critical nonlinearity threshold. Interestingly, the exceptional point melts faster with increasing temperatures, showing a surprising flow to coherent dynamics when coupled to a warm environment.

cond-mat.str-el

A Luttinger Liquid coupled to Ohmic-class environments

We investigate the impact of an Ohmic-class environment on the conduction and correlation properties of one-dimensional interacting systems. Interestingly, we reveal that inter-particle interactions can be engineered by the environment's noise statistics. Introducing a backscattering impurity to the system, we address Kane-Fisher's metal-to-insulator quantum phase transition in this noisy and realistic setting. Within a perturbative renormalization group approach, we show that the Ohmic environments keep the phase transition intact, while sub- and super-Ohmic environments, modify it into a smooth crossover at a scale that depends on the interaction strength within the wire. The system still undergoes a metal-to-insulator-like transition when moving from sub-Ohmic to super-Ohmic environment noise. We cover a broad range of realistic experimental conditions, by exploring the impact of a finite wire length and temperature on transport through the system.

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