Tuning Quantum Information Scrambling on a 53-Qubit Processor
Jeffrey Marshall
Salvatore Mandra
Masoud Mohseni
Andrew Dunsworth
Alan Ho
Matt Trevithick
Eric Ostby
Alan Derk
Rami Barends
Bálint Pató
Josh Mutus
Trevor Mccourt
Thomas E O'Brien
Sergei Isakov
Jamie Yao
Sean Harrington
Jeremy Patterson Hilton
Fedor Kostritsa
Trent Huang
Vladimir Shvarts
Nicholas Redd
Anthony Megrant
Charles Neill
Nicholas Bushnell
Wojtek Mruczkiewicz
Xiao Mi
Brooks Riley Foxen
Frank Carlton Arute
Marco Szalay
Orion Martin
Michael Newman
Alex Opremcak
William Courtney
Pavel Laptev
Vadim Smelyanskiy
Benjamin Chiaro
Jimmy Chen
Michael Blythe Broughton
Juan Atalaya
Daniel Eppens
Roberto Collins
Igor Aleiner
Yu Chen
Doug Strain
Dave Landhuis
Ping Yeh
Kunal Arya
Cody Jones
Edward Farhi
Andre Gregory Petukhov
Alexander Korotkov
Kostyantyn Kechedzhi
Alexandre Bourassa
arXiv (2021)
Abstract
As entanglement in a quantum system grows, initially localized quantum information is spread into the exponentially many degrees of freedom of the entire system. This process, known as quantum scrambling, is computationally intensive to study classically and lies at the heart of several modern physics conundrums. Here, we characterize scrambling of different quantum circuits on a 53-qubit programmable quantum processor by measuring their out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs). We observe that the spatiotemporal spread of OTOCs, as well as their circuit-to-circuit fluctuation, unravel in detail the time-scale and extent of quantum scrambling. Comparison with numerical results indicates a high OTOC measurement accuracy despite the large size of the quantum system. Our work establishes OTOC as an experimental tool to diagnose quantum scrambling at the threshold of being classically inaccessible.
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