APS March Meeting 2022
Volume 67, Number 3
Monday–Friday, March 14–18, 2022;
Chicago
Session W37: Quantum Machine Learning III
3:00 PM–5:48 PM,
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Room: McCormick Place W-194B
Sponsoring
Units:
DQI GDS
Chair: Pranav Rao, UIUC
Abstract: W37.00009 : Quantum reservoir neural network implementation on a Josephson parametric converter
5:00 PM–5:12 PM
Abstract
Presenter:
Danijela Markovic
(CNRS/THALES)
Authors:
Danijela Markovic
(CNRS/THALES)
Julien Dudas
(CNRS/Thales)
Julie Grollier
(CNRS/Thales)
Neuromorphic computing implements neural networks in hardware to make their training more time and energy efficient. However, addressing state-of-the-art machine learning tasks requires coupling large numbers of neurons, which is challenging with physical nano-devices. It has been proposed to solve this problem using quantum hardware and encoding neurons in the basis states, whose number is exponential in the number of coupled qubits. In this work, in order to obtain an even larger number of basis states, we use quantum oscillators instead of qubits. To go towards an experimental realization, we simulate a reservoir neural network implemented on a Josephson parametric converter. This circuit couples two superconducting oscillators through a three-wave-mixing interaction, implemented using a ring of four Josephson junctions. We encode the input data in the resonant oscillators' drives and numerically integrate quantum master equation to find the occupation probabilities of a subset of basis states that represent neural network outputs. We show that this system of two coupled quantum oscillators can solve a sine and square waveform classification task that otherwise requires 25 classical oscillators. Furthermore, we train this network to perform chaotic Mackey-Glass series prediction and show that with typical experimental parameters for a Josephson parametric converter we can obtain memory and performance comparable to other physical neural networks.These results show that a simple and well known quantum circuit can realize non-trivial machine learning tasks when its dynamics is exploited. Neuromorphic computing thus promises to leverage the full computing capabilities of even small quantum systems. These simulations will guide experimental realization of a reservoir neural network on the Josephson parametric converter.