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Title: Noisy-Intermediate-Scale Quantum Electromagnetic Transients Program

Abstract

Quantum-empowered electromagnetic transients program (QEMTP) is a promising paradigm for tackling EMTP's computational burdens. Nevertheless, no existing studies truly achieve a practical and scalable QEMTP operable on today's noisy-intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers. The strong reliance on noise-free and fault-tolerant quantum devices--which appears to be decades away--hinder practical applications of current QEMTP methods. Here, we devise a NISQ-QEMTP methodology which for the first time transitions the QEMTP operations from ideal, noise-free quantum simulators to real, noisy quantum computers. The main contributions lie in: (1) a shallow-depth QEMTP quantum circuit for mitigating noises on NISQ quantum devices; (2) practical QEMTP linear solvers incorporating executable quantum state preparation and measurements for nodal voltage computations; (3) a noise-resilient QEMTP algorithm leveraging quantum resources logarithmically scaled with power system dimension; (4) a quantum shifted frequency analysis (QSFA) for accelerating QEMTP by exploiting dynamic phasor simulations with larger time steps; (5) a systematical analysis on QEMTPs performance under various noisy quantum environments. Extensive experiments systematically verify the accuracy, efficacy, universality and noise-resilience of QEMTP on both noise-free simulators and IBM real quantum computers.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Electricity (OE), Advanced Grid Research & Development. Power Systems Engineering Research; National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1890220
Report Number(s):
BNL-223500-2022-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 0885-8950
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012704; ECCS-2018492; OIA-2040599; OIA-2134840; TE1103000-05300-3123785
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 38; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 0885-8950
Publisher:
IEEE
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; grid modeling; quantum electromagnetic transients program (QEMTP); quantum shifted frequency analysis (QSFA); quantum computing; variational quantum linear solver; noisy-intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era; EMTP; computers; noise measurement; voltage; qubit; quantum circuit; power system dynamics

Citation Formats

Zhou, Yifan, Zhang, Peng, and Feng, Fei. Noisy-Intermediate-Scale Quantum Electromagnetic Transients Program. United States: N. p., 2022. Web. doi:10.1109/tpwrs.2022.3172655.
Zhou, Yifan, Zhang, Peng, & Feng, Fei. Noisy-Intermediate-Scale Quantum Electromagnetic Transients Program. United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/tpwrs.2022.3172655
Zhou, Yifan, Zhang, Peng, and Feng, Fei. Thu . "Noisy-Intermediate-Scale Quantum Electromagnetic Transients Program". United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/tpwrs.2022.3172655. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1890220.
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abstractNote = {Quantum-empowered electromagnetic transients program (QEMTP) is a promising paradigm for tackling EMTP's computational burdens. Nevertheless, no existing studies truly achieve a practical and scalable QEMTP operable on today's noisy-intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers. The strong reliance on noise-free and fault-tolerant quantum devices--which appears to be decades away--hinder practical applications of current QEMTP methods. Here, we devise a NISQ-QEMTP methodology which for the first time transitions the QEMTP operations from ideal, noise-free quantum simulators to real, noisy quantum computers. The main contributions lie in: (1) a shallow-depth QEMTP quantum circuit for mitigating noises on NISQ quantum devices; (2) practical QEMTP linear solvers incorporating executable quantum state preparation and measurements for nodal voltage computations; (3) a noise-resilient QEMTP algorithm leveraging quantum resources logarithmically scaled with power system dimension; (4) a quantum shifted frequency analysis (QSFA) for accelerating QEMTP by exploiting dynamic phasor simulations with larger time steps; (5) a systematical analysis on QEMTPs performance under various noisy quantum environments. Extensive experiments systematically verify the accuracy, efficacy, universality and noise-resilience of QEMTP on both noise-free simulators and IBM real quantum computers.},
doi = {10.1109/tpwrs.2022.3172655},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Power Systems},
number = 2,
volume = 38,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu May 05 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Thu May 05 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
}

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