Data-driven characterization of latent dynamics on quantum testbeds

Abstract

This paper presents a data-driven approach to learn latent dynamics in superconducting quantum computing hardware. To this end, we augment the dynamical equation of quantum systems described by the Lindblad master equation with a parameterized source term that is trained from experimental data to capture unknown system dynamics, such as environmental interactions and system noise. We consider a structure preserving augmentation that learns and distinguishes unitary from dissipative latent dynamics parameterized by a basis of linear operators, as well as an augmentation given by a nonlinear feed-forward neural network. Numerical results are presented using data from two different quantum processing units (QPUs) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Quantum Device and Integration Testbed. We demonstrate that our interpretable, structure preserving, and nonlinear models are able to improve the prediction accuracy of the Lindblad master equation and accurately model the latent dynamics of the QPUs.