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Quantum Goemans-Williamson Algorithm with the Hadamard Test and Approximate Amplitude Constraints

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Taylor L. Patti1,2, Jean Kossaifi2, Anima Anandkumar3,2, and Susanne F. Yelin1

1Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
2NVIDIA, Santa Clara, California 95051, USA
3Department of Computing + Mathematical Sciences (CMS), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

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Abstract

Semidefinite programs are optimization methods with a wide array of applications, such as approximating difficult combinatorial problems. One such semidefinite program is the Goemans-Williamson algorithm, a popular integer relaxation technique. We introduce a variational quantum algorithm for the Goemans-Williamson algorithm that uses only $n{+}1$ qubits, a constant number of circuit preparations, and $text{poly}(n)$ expectation values in order to approximately solve semidefinite programs with up to $N=2^n$ variables and $M sim O(N)$ constraints. Efficient optimization is achieved by encoding the objective matrix as a properly parameterized unitary conditioned on an auxilary qubit, a technique known as the Hadamard Test. The Hadamard Test enables us to optimize the objective function by estimating only a single expectation value of the ancilla qubit, rather than separately estimating exponentially many expectation values. Similarly, we illustrate that the semidefinite programming constraints can be effectively enforced by implementing a second Hadamard Test, as well as imposing a polynomial number of Pauli string amplitude constraints. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our protocol by devising an efficient quantum implementation of the Goemans-Williamson algorithm for various NP-hard problems, including MaxCut. Our method exceeds the performance of analogous classical methods on a diverse subset of well-studied MaxCut problems from the GSet library.

Semidefinite programs allow us to approximate a wide array of hard problems, including NP-hard problems. One such semidefinite program is the Goemans-Williamson algorithm, which can solve hard problems, such as MaxCut. We introduce a variational quantum algorithm for the Goemans-Williamson algorithm that uses only $n{+}1$ qubits, a constant number of circuit preparations, and a polynomial number of expectation values in order to approximately solve semidefinite programs with an exponential number of variables and constraints. We encode the problem into a quantum circuit (or unitary) and read it out on a single auxilary qubit, a technique known as the Hadamard Test. Similarly, we illustrate that the problem constraints can be enforced by 1) a second Hadamard Test and 2) a polynomial number of Pauli string constraints. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our protocol by devising an efficient quantum implementation of the Goemans-Williamson algorithm for various NP-hard problems, including MaxCut. Our method exceeds the performance of analogous classical methods on a diverse subset of well-studied MaxCut problems.

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