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The work tackles a practical bottleneck in characterizing quantum hardware: learning a system's Hamiltonian at Heisenberg-limited precision without ultra-short control pulses. For logarithmically sparse Hamiltonians, the authors show the optimal 1/ε scaling in total evolution time holds under any constant minimum evolution time, which matters for experimental platforms with limited control bandwidth. Readers should weigh this as a theoretical result whose gains depend on sparsity assumptions and on how well the auxiliary-operation scheme performs on real devices.
Sparse Hamiltonians can be learned with slower quantum controls
Learning the underlying Hamiltonians of quantum systems, even sparse ones, can achieve Heisenberg-limited accuracy—without requiring arbitrarily short control pulses.
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have demonstrated Heisenberg-limited Hamiltonian learning without relying on access to arbitrarily short-time dynamics, a previously critical requirement for efficient quantum system characterization. The work introduces a framework where queries to a quantum system’s dynamics have a minimum duration of time T, yet still achieve optimal scaling for learning the system’s Hamiltonian. For logarithmically sparse Hamiltonians, the algorithm achieves the information-theoretically optimal 1/ε scaling in total evolution time for any arbitrary constant minimum evolution time T. The results reveal that high-bandwidth, ultra-short…
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