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most citedNoise-Induced Barren Plateaus in Variational Quantum Algorithms

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quant-ph2023

Effect of non-unital noise on random circuit sampling

Bill Fefferman, Soumik Ghosh, Michael Gullans +2

In this work, drawing inspiration from the type of noise present in real hardware, we study the output distribution of random quantum circuits under practical non-unital noise sour…

quant-ph2023★ 5 cited

Locality and Error Mitigation of Quantum Circuits

Minh C. Tran, Kunal Sharma, Kristan Temme

In this work, we study and improve two leading error mitigation techniques, namely Probabilistic Error Cancellation (PEC) and Zero-Noise Extrapolation (ZNE), for estimating the exp…

quant-ph2022★ 12 cited

Continuous-variable quantum state designs: theory and applications

Joseph T. Iosue, Kunal Sharma, Michael J. Gullans +1

We generalize the notion of quantum state designs to infinite-dimensional spaces. We first prove that, under the definition of continuous-variable (CV) state -designs from Comm.…

quant-ph2022

Quantum Non-Demolition Photon Counting in a 2d Rydberg Atom Array

Christopher Fechisin, Kunal Sharma, Przemyslaw Bienias +4

Rydberg arrays merge the collective behavior of ordered atomic arrays with the controllability and optical nonlinearities of Rydberg systems, resulting in a powerful platform for r…

quant-ph2022★ 57 cited

Analytic theory for the dynamics of wide quantum neural networks

Junyu Liu, Khadijeh Najafi, Kunal Sharma +3

Parameterized quantum circuits can be used as quantum neural networks and have the potential to outperform their classical counterparts when trained for addressing learning problem…

quant-ph2021★ 485 cited

Generalization in quantum machine learning from few training data

Matthias C. Caro, Hsin-Yuan Huang, M. Cerezo +4

Modern quantum machine learning (QML) methods involve variationally optimizing a parameterized quantum circuit on a training data set, and subsequently making predictions on a test…

quant-ph2021★ 34 cited

Estimating distinguishability measures on quantum computers

Soorya Rethinasamy, Rochisha Agarwal, Kunal Sharma +1

The performance of a quantum information processing protocol is ultimately judged by distinguishability measures that quantify how distinguishable the actual result of the protocol…

quant-ph2021★ 228 cited

Diagnosing Barren Plateaus with Tools from Quantum Optimal Control

Martin Larocca, Piotr Czarnik, Kunal Sharma +3

Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) have received considerable attention due to their potential for achieving near-term quantum advantage. However, more work is needed to underst…

quant-ph2021★ 627 cited

Connecting ansatz expressibility to gradient magnitudes and barren plateaus

Zoë Holmes, Kunal Sharma, M. Cerezo +1

Parameterized quantum circuits serve as ansätze for solving variational problems and provide a flexible paradigm for programming near-term quantum computers. Ideally, such ansätze…

quant-ph2020★ 15 cited

Optimal tests for continuous-variable quantum teleportation and photodetectors

Kunal Sharma, Barry C. Sanders, Mark M. Wilde

Quantum teleportation is a primitive in several important applications, including quantum communication, quantum computation, error correction, and quantum networks. In this work,…

quant-ph2020★ 806 cited

Noise-Induced Barren Plateaus in Variational Quantum Algorithms

Samson Wang, Enrico Fontana, M. Cerezo +4

Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) may be a path to quantum advantage on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers. A natural question is whether noise on NISQ devices p…

quant-ph2020★ 68 cited

Reformulation of the No-Free-Lunch Theorem for Entangled Data Sets

Kunal Sharma, M. Cerezo, Zoë Holmes +3

The no-free-lunch (NFL) theorem is a celebrated result in learning theory that limits one's ability to learn a function with a training data set. With the recent rise of quantum ma…

quant-ph2020★ 176 cited

Trainability of Dissipative Perceptron-Based Quantum Neural Networks

Kunal Sharma, M. Cerezo, Lukasz Cincio +1

Several architectures have been proposed for quantum neural networks (QNNs), with the goal of efficiently performing machine learning tasks on quantum data. Rigorous scaling result…

quant-ph2020★ 148 cited

Variational Quantum State Eigensolver

M. Cerezo, Kunal Sharma, Andrew Arrasmith +1

Extracting eigenvalues and eigenvectors of exponentially large matrices will be an important application of near-term quantum computers. The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) t…

quant-ph2019★ 190 cited

Noise Resilience of Variational Quantum Compiling

Kunal Sharma, Sumeet Khatri, M. Cerezo +1

Variational hybrid quantum-classical algorithms (VHQCAs) are near-term algorithms that leverage classical optimization to minimize a cost function, which is efficiently evaluated o…

quant-ph2019★ 3 cited

Information-theoretic aspects of the generalized amplitude damping channel

Sumeet Khatri, Kunal Sharma, Mark M. Wilde

The generalized amplitude damping channel (GADC) is one of the sources of noise in superconducting-circuit-based quantum computing. It can be viewed as the qubit analogue of the bo…

quant-ph2018★ 13 cited

Characterizing the performance of continuous-variable Gaussian quantum gates

Kunal Sharma, Mark M. Wilde

The required set of operations for universal continuous-variable quantum computation can be divided into two primary categories: Gaussian and non-Gaussian operations. Furthermore,…

quant-ph2018★ 26 cited

Entanglement-assisted private communication over quantum broadcast channels

Haoyu Qi, Kunal Sharma, Mark M. Wilde

We consider entanglement-assisted (EA) private communication over a quantum broadcast channel, in which there is a single sender and multiple receivers. We divide the receivers int…

quant-ph2017★ 58 cited

Bounding the energy-constrained quantum and private capacities of phase-insensitive bosonic Gaussian channels

Kunal Sharma, Mark M. Wilde, Sushovit Adhikari +1

We establish several upper bounds on the energy-constrained quantum and private capacities of all single-mode phase-insensitive bosonic Gaussian channels. The first upper bound, wh…

quant-ph2017★ 23 cited

Conditional quantum one-time pad

Kunal Sharma, Eyuri Wakakuwa, Mark M. Wilde

Suppose that Alice and Bob are located in distant laboratories, which are connected by an ideal quantum channel. Suppose further that they share many copies of a quantum state $ρ_{…

quant-ph2015★ 7 cited

Distribution of Bell inequality violation vs. multiparty quantum correlation measures

Kunal Sharma, Tamoghna Das, Aditi Sen De +1

Violation of a Bell inequality guarantees the existence of quantum correlations in a quantum state. A pure bipartite quantum state, having nonvanishing quantum correlation, always…