Infidelity Analysis of Digital Counter-Diabatic Driving in Simple Two-Qubit System

Abstract

Digitized counter-diabatic (CD) optimization algorithms have been proposed and extensively studied to enhance performance in quantum computing by accelerating adiabatic processes while minimizing energy transitions. While adding approximate counter-diabatic terms can initially introduce adiabatic errors that decrease over time, Trotter errors from decomposition approximation persist. On the other hand, increasing the high-order nested commutators for CD terms may improve adiabatic errors but could also introduce additional Trotter errors. In this article, we examine the two-qubit model to explore the interplay between approximate CD, adiabatic errors, Trotter errors, coefficients, and commutators. Through these analyses, we aim to gain insights into optimizing these factors for better fidelity, a shallower circuit depth, and a reduced gate number in near-term gate-based quantum computing.

Keywords

• counter-diabatic driving
• Suzuki–Trotter decomposition
• error analysis
• optimization