Effect of Nonunital Noise on Random-Circuit Sampling
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 nonunital noise sources with constant noise rates. We show that even in the presence of unital sources such as the depolarizing channel, the distribution, under the combined noise channel, never resembles a maximally entropic distribution at any depth. To show this, we prove that the output distribution of such circuits never anticoncentrates—meaning that it is never too “flat”—regardless of the depth of the circuit. This is in stark contrast to the behavior of noiseless random quantum circuits or those with only unital noise, both of which anticoncentrate at sufficiently large depths. As a consequence, our results shows that the complexity of random-circuit sampling under realistic noise is still an open question, since anticoncentration is a critical property exploited by both state-of-the-art classical hardness and easiness results. Published by the American Physical Society 2024
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0020360
- OSTI ID:
- 2406691
- Journal Information:
- PRX Quantum, Journal Name: PRX Quantum Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 5; ISSN 2691-3399; ISSN PQRUAG
- Publisher:
- American Physical SocietyCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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