%0 Journal Article %D 2020 %T Quantum walks and Dirac cellular automata on a programmable trapped-ion quantum computer %A C. Huerta Alderete %A Shivani Singh %A Nhung H. Nguyen %A Daiwei Zhu %A Radhakrishnan Balu %A Christopher Monroe %A C. M. Chandrashekar %A Norbert M. Linke %X
The quantum walk formalism is a widely used and highly successful framework for modeling quantum systems, such as simulations of the Dirac equation, different dynamics in both the low and high energy regime, and for developing a wide range of quantum algorithms. Here we present the circuit-based implementation of a discrete-time quantum walk in position space on a five-qubit trapped-ion quantum processor. We encode the space of walker positions in particular multi-qubit states and program the system to operate with different quantum walk parameters, experimentally realizing a Dirac cellular automaton with tunable mass parameter. The quantum walk circuits and position state mapping scale favorably to a larger model and physical systems, allowing the implementation of any algorithm based on discrete-time quantum walks algorithm and the dynamics associated with the discretized version of the Dirac equation.
%8 2/6/2020 %G eng %U https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02537 %0 Journal Article %D 2020 %T Universal one-dimensional discrete-time quantum walks and their implementation on near term quantum hardware %A Shivani Singh %A Cinthia H. Alderete %A Radhakrishnan Balu %A Christopher Monroe %A Norbert M. Linke %A C. M. Chandrashekar %XQuantum walks are a promising framework for developing quantum algorithms and quantum simulations. Quantum walks represent an important test case for the application of quantum computers. Here we present different forms of discrete-time quantum walks and show their equivalence for physical realizations. Using an appropriate digital mapping of the position space on which a walker evolves onto the multi-qubit states in a quantum processor, we present different configurations of quantum circuits for the implementation of discrete-time quantum walks in one-dimensional position space. With example circuits for a five qubit machine we address scalability to higher dimensions and larger quantum processors.
%8 1/30/2020 %G eng %U https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11197