Wu, Sau; Sun, Shaojun; Guan, Wen; ... - Physical Review Research
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more » antum machine learning could possibly become a valuable alternative to classical machine learning for applications in high energy physics by offering computational speedups. In this study, we employ a support vector machine with a quantum kernel estimator (QSVM-Kernel method) to a recent LHC flagship physics analysis: (Higgs boson production in association with a top quark pair). In our quantum simulation study using up to 20 qubits and up to events, the QSVM-Kernel method performs as well as its classical counterparts in three different platforms from Google Tensorflow antum, IBM antum, and Amazon Braket. Additionally, using 15 qubits and 100 events, the application of the QSVM-Kernel method on the IBM superconducting quantum hardware approaches the performance of a noiseless quantum simulator. Our study confirms that the QSVM-Kernel method can use the large dimensionality of the quantum Hilbert space to replace the classical feature space in realistic physics data sets.« less
