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arXiv:2604.27648

Effective Noise Mitigation via Quantum Circuit Learning in Quantum Simulation of Integrable Spin Chains

Wenlong Zhao, Yimeng Zhang, Yan Guo, Yufan Cui, Zhuohang Wang, Rui-Dong Zhu

quant-phcond-mat.stat-mechcond-mat.str-elhep-thSubmitted Apr 30, 2026• Announced May 1, 2026• 0 citations• Revised Jul 15, 2026 (v3)
v1 · Apr 30, 2026v2 · Jul 14, 2026v3 · Jul 15, 2026
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Abstract

We propose a noise-mitigation quantum simulation strategy for near-term quantum devices based on Quantum Circuit Learning (QCL), which is in particular effective for integrable quantum spin chains. The method trains a shallow variational circuit to approximate a deeper time-evolution circuit by learning the conserved charges and only a small amount of dynamical information in the system. Under realistic noise models, the learned circuit maintains both conserved quantities and dynamical observables significantly closer to their true values than the noisy simulation of the original circuit. We demonstrate, on small-scale prototypes, that QCL can act as an effective, physics-informed error mitigation strategy, producing shorter, more robust circuits without exponential sampling overhead.

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