%0 Journal Article %D 2019 %T Toward convergence of effective field theory simulations on digital quantum computers %A Omar Shehab %A Kevin A. Landsman %A Yunseong Nam %A Daiwei Zhu %A Norbert M. Linke %A Matthew J. Keesan %A Raphael C. Pooser %A Christopher R. Monroe %X

We report results for simulating an effective field theory to compute the binding energy of the deuteron nucleus using a hybrid algorithm on a trapped-ion quantum computer. Two increasingly complex unitary coupled-cluster ansaetze have been used to compute the binding energy to within a few percent for successively more complex Hamiltonians. By increasing the complexity of the Hamiltonian, allowing more terms in the effective field theory expansion and calculating their expectation values, we present a benchmark for quantum computers based on their ability to scalably calculate the effective field theory with increasing accuracy. Our result of E4=−2.220±0.179MeV may be compared with the exact Deuteron ground-state energy −2.224MeV. We also demonstrate an error mitigation technique using Richardson extrapolation on ion traps for the first time. The error mitigation circuit represents a record for deepest quantum circuit on a trapped-ion quantum computer. 

%8 04/18/2019 %G eng %U https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04338