Simulation of Thermal Relaxation in Spin Chemistry Systems on a Quantum Computer Using Inherent Qubit Decoherence
Simulation of Thermal Relaxation in Spin Chemistry Systems on a Quantum Computer Using Inherent Qubit Decoherence
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使用固有量子位退相干在量子计算机上模拟自旋化学系统中的热弛豫
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2020
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J. Nabrzyski
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Brian Rost;B. Jones;M. Vyushkova;Aaila Ali;Charlotte Cullip;A. Vyushkov;J. Nabrzyski
Current and near term quantum computers (i.e. NISQ devices) are limited in their computational power in part due to qubit decoherence. Here we seek to take advantage of qubit decoherence as a resource in simulating the behavior of real world quantum systems, which are always subject to decoherence, with no additional computational overhead. As a first step toward this goal we simulate the thermal relaxation of quantum beats in radical ion pairs (RPs) on a quantum computer as a proof of concept of the method. We present three methods for implementing the thermal relaxation, one which explicitly applies the relaxation Kraus operators, one which combines results from two separate circuits in a classical post-processing step, and one which relies on leveraging the inherent decoherence of the qubits themselves. We use our methods to simulate two real world systems and find excellent agreement between our results, experimental data, and the theoretical prediction.