amazon-braket / Braket.jl

Experimental Julia implementation of the Amazon Braket SDK
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Implement shadows-, grouping-, and POVM-based measurement estimation schemes #61

Open kshyatt-aws opened 11 months ago

kshyatt-aws commented 11 months ago

Describe the feature you'd like Implementation of classical shadows or POVMs in Braket.jl.

Is this feature already present in the Python SDK? No, although shadows can be used in the Python SDK via PennyLane.

How would this feature be used? Please describe. These schemes allow estimation of observables (especially observables of many non-commuting Pauli words) more efficiently than naively measuring each term in the operator,.

Describe alternatives you've considered The alternative would be not implementing these.

Additional context TO DO: add some paper references.