16 research outputs found
Complex Paths for Regular-to-Chaotic Tunneling Rates
Tunneling is a fundamental effect of quantum mechanics, which allows waves to penetrate into regions that are inaccessible by classical dynamics. We study this phenomenon for generic non-integrable systems with a mixed phase space, where tunneling occurs between the classically separated phase-space regions of regular and chaotic motion. We derive a semiclassical prediction for the corresponding tunneling rates from the regular region to the chaotic sea. This prediction is based on paths which connect the regular and the chaotic region in complexified phase space. We show that these complex paths can be constructed despite the obstacle of natural boundaries. For the standard map we demonstrate that tunneling rates can be predicted with high accuracy, by using only a few dominant complex paths. This gives the semiclassical foundation for the long-conjectured and often-observed exponential scaling with Planck's constant of regular-to-chaotic tunneling rates
Complex-Path Prediction of Resonance-Assisted Tunneling in Mixed Systems
We present a semiclassical prediction of regular-to-chaotic tunneling in
systems with a mixed phase space, including the effect of a nonlinear resonance
chain. We identify complex paths for direct and resonance-assisted tunneling in
the phase space of an integrable approximation with one nonlinear resonance
chain. We evaluate the resonance-assisted contribution analytically and give a
prediction based on just a few properties of the classical phase space. For the
standard map excellent agreement with numerically determined tunneling rates is
observed. The results should similarly apply to ionization rates and quality
factors.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure
Integrable approximation of regular regions with a nonlinear resonance chain
Generic Hamiltonian systems have a mixed phase space where regions of regular
and chaotic motion coexist. We present a method for constructing an integrable
approximation to such regular phase-space regions including a nonlinear
resonance chain. This approach generalizes the recently introduced iterative
canonical transformation method. In the first step of the method a normal-form
Hamiltonian with a resonance chain is adapted such that actions and frequencies
match with those of the non-integrable system. In the second step a sequence of
canonical transformations is applied to the integrable approximation to match
the shape of regular tori. We demonstrate the method for the generic standard
map at various parameters.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figure
Uniform hyperbolicity of a class of scattering maps
In recent years fractal Weyl laws and related quantum eigenfunction
hypothesis have been studied in a plethora of numerical model systems, called
quantum maps. In some models studied there one can easily prove uniform
hyperbolicity. Yet, a numerically sound method for computing quantum resonance
states, did not exist. To address this challenge, we recently introduced a new
class of quantum maps. For these quantum maps, we showed that, quantum
resonance states can numerically be computed using theoretically grounded
methods such as complex scaling or weak absorbing potentials. However, proving
uniform hyperbolicty for this class of quantum maps was not straight forward.
Going beyond that work this article generalizes the class of scattering maps
and provides mathematical proofs for their uniform hyperbolicity. In
particular, we show that the suggested class of two-dimensional symplectic
scattering maps satisfies the topological horseshoe condition and uniform
hyperbolicity. In order to prove these properties, we follow the procedure
developed in the paper by Devaney and Nitecki. Specifically, uniform
hyperbolicity is shown by identifying a proper region in which the
non-wandering set satisfies a sufficient condition to have the so-called sector
bundle or cone field. Since no quantum map is known where both a proof of
uniform hyperbolicity and a methodologically sound method for numerically
computing quantum resonance states exist simultaneously, the present result
should be valuable to further test fractal Weyl laws and related topics such as
chaotic eigenfunction hypothesis.Comment: 50 pages, 23 figure
Consequences of Flooding on Spectral Statistics
We study spectral statistics in systems with a mixed phase space, in which
regions of regular and chaotic motion coexist. Increasing their density of
states, we observe a transition of the level-spacing distribution P(s) from
Berry-Robnik to Wigner statistics, although the underlying classical
phase-space structure and the effective Planck constant remain unchanged. This
transition is induced by flooding, i.e., the disappearance of regular states
due to increasing regular-to-chaotic couplings. We account for this effect by a
flooding-improved Berry-Robnik distribution, in which an effectively reduced
size of the regular island enters. To additionally describe power-law level
repulsion at small spacings, we extend this prediction by explicitly
considering the tunneling couplings between regular and chaotic states. This
results in a flooding- and tunneling-improved Berry-Robnik distribution which
is in excellent agreement with numerical data.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figure
Fractional-Power-Law Level-Statistics due to Dynamical Tunneling
For systems with a mixed phase space we demonstrate that dynamical tunneling
universally leads to a fractional power law of the level-spacing distribution
P(s) over a wide range of small spacings s. Going beyond Berry-Robnik
statistics, we take into account that dynamical tunneling rates between the
regular and the chaotic region vary over many orders of magnitude. This results
in a prediction of P(s) which excellently describes the spectral data of the
standard map. Moreover, we show that the power-law exponent is proportional to
the effective Planck constant h.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Dynamic-ADAPT-QAOA: An algorithm with shallow and noise-resilient circuits
The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is an appealing
proposal to solve NP problems on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ)
hardware. Making NISQ implementations of the QAOA resilient to noise requires
short ansatz circuits with as few CNOT gates as possible. Here, we present
Dynamic-ADAPT-QAOA. Our algorithm significantly reduces the circuit depth and
the CNOT count of standard ADAPT-QAOA, a leading proposal for near-term
implementations of the QAOA. Throughout our algorithm, the decision to apply
CNOT-intensive operations is made dynamically, based on algorithmic benefits.
Using density-matrix simulations, we benchmark the noise resilience of
ADAPT-QAOA and Dynamic-ADAPT-QAOA. We compute the gate-error probability
below which these algorithms provide, on average, more
accurate solutions than the classical, polynomial-time approximation algorithm
by Goemans and Williamson. For small systems with qubits, we show that
for Dynamic-ADAPT-QAOA. Compared to standard
ADAPT-QAOA, this constitutes an order-of-magnitude improvement in noise
resilience. This improvement should make Dynamic-ADAPT-QAOA viable for
implementations on superconducting NISQ hardware, even in the absence of error
mitigation.Comment: 15 pages, 9 figure
Variational quantum chemistry requires gate-error probabilities below the fault-tolerance threshold
The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a leading contender for useful
quantum advantage in the NISQ era. The interplay between quantum processors and
classical optimisers is believed to make the VQE noise resilient. Here, we
probe this hypothesis. We use full density-matrix simulations to rank the noise
resilience of leading gate-based VQE algorithms in ground-state computations on
a range of molecules. We find that, in the presence of noise: (i) ADAPT-VQEs
that construct ansatz circuits iteratively outperform VQEs that use "fixed"
ansatz circuits; and (ii) ADAPT-VQEs perform better when circuits are
constructed from gate-efficient elements rather than physically-motivated ones.
Our results show that, for a wide range of molecules, even the best-performing
VQE algorithms require gate-error probabilities on the order of to
to reach chemical accuracy. This is significantly below the
fault-tolerance thresholds of most error-correction protocols. Further, we
estimate that the maximum allowed gate-error probability scales inversely with
the number of noisy (two-qubit) gates. Our results indicate that useful
chemistry calculations with current gate-based VQEs are unlikely to be
successful on near-term hardware without error correction.Comment: 17 pages, 8 figure