Utilizing counterdiabatic (CD) driving - aiming at suppression of diabatic
transition - in digitized adiabatic evolution have garnered immense interest in
quantum protocols and algorithms. However, improving the approximate CD terms
with a nested commutator ansatz is a challenging task. In this work, we propose
a technique of finding optimal coefficients of the CD terms using a variational
quantum circuit. By classical optimizations routines, the parameters of this
circuit are optimized to provide the coefficients corresponding to the CD
terms. Then their improved performance is exemplified in
Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state preparation on nearest-neighbor Ising model.
Finally, we also show the advantage over the usual quantum approximation
optimization algorithm, in terms of fidelity with bounded time.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in the upcoming theme
issue of Philosophical Transactions