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we analyze an algorithm that can be easily verified via the
measurement statistics in an experiment, can be scaled
with system size, is compatible with NISQ devices from
the expected fidelity, and generates an amount of entan-
glement compatible with simulations on a classical com-
puter. The preparation of large GHZ states fulfills these
characteristics. Moreover, the GHZ state is becoming a
standard benchmark of the ability to control highly non-
classical properties of quantum hardware. Since the sem-
inal demonstration of 14-qubit GHZ states in a trapped
ion quantum computer [37], other platforms have ac-
cepted the challenge as well [38–40]. Recently, six-qubit
GHZ states have been realized in a Rydberg quantum
processor [41]. Therefore, this problem serves as an ex-
ample of how to use the digital twin from the problem
statement to the statistics of projective measurements
comparable to an actual experimental setup.
The digital twin allows one to establish the opti-
mal radius beyond which gates can run in parallel
without significant crosstalk on the 88Sr Rydberg plat-
form [36, 43, 44]. In particular, we characterize the trade-
off between higher parallelization versus smaller errors
due to crosstalk: on the one hand, a lower circuit depth
comes with higher error rates induced by the Rydberg in-
teraction; on the other hand, we pay for higher precision
gates with larger circuit depths and an increasing vulner-
ability to decoherence. As sketched in Fig. 1a), we com-
pile the circuit with a dedicated compiler RydberGHZ-C
targeting the GHZ state in a two-dimensional geometry.
Then, we use realistic and conservative parameters for
the simulation of an 8×8strontium-88 setup [44], for
example, taking into account long-range Rydberg inter-
actions. For a 64-qubit GHZ state, we obtain a state
infidelity of a 10−2level for the closed quantum system
and controllable crosstalk. The circuit depth is only 15%
above the theoretical minimum for a 2D square system
with nearest-neighbor connectivity and the same gate set.
Finally, we demonstrate an application of the digital twin
on parallel GHZ states generation, e.g., encountered in
the initial preparation of quantum error-correcting five-
qubit repetition code [45–47].
The numerical workhorse behind the ab-initio
Hamiltonian-based emulation of a parallel quantum com-
putation is a tree tensor network (TTN) simulating a
square lattice of qutrits taking into account the states
|0⟩,|1⟩, and the Rydberg state |r⟩[48]. Within the
family of tensor network algorithms [49–52], the TTN
is a powerful ansatz for two-dimensional systems. The
simulation of the system time evolution is implemented
by exploiting recent progress in tensor network meth-
ods [11–14]: in particular, the time-dependent variational
principle which supports the long-range interactions re-
quired for picturing crosstalk and the scheduling of par-
allel gates [11, 13]. On the one hand, the combination of
the many-body simulations with optimal control results
to include time-optimal gates and a compiler requires to
master and merge all the existing state-of-the-art build-
ing blocks. On the other hand, exactly this overarch-
ing approach distinguishes it from independently carried
out analysis by the insight that can be gained: with an
equivalent size of 101 qubits, the digital twins sets the
standard for emulating a QPU at the Hamiltonian level
on a classical computer.
The structure of the manuscript is the following: we
focus on the prospect of running quantum algorithms
in parallel on the Rydberg platform by constructing a
global GHZ state and preparing multiple GHZ states on
five qubits in Sec. I. A detailed description of the Ryd-
berg system including open quantum system effects fol-
lows in Sec. II. Afterward, we explain the technical as-
pects of the tensor network simulations in Sec. III and
the RydberGHZ-C designed for the parallel GHZ prepa-
ration in Sec. IV. We conclude with a brief summary and
outlook.
I. PARALLEL QUANTUM ALGORITHMS
The digital twin relies on an ab-initio Hamiltonian
description of the platform. We consider that there is
the potential to study all qubit platforms in the way
we demonstrate the simulations here for Rydberg atoms.
The most challenging numerical aspects, i.e., the two-
dimensional layout of superconducting hardware and the
long-range interactions of trapped ions, are combined in
the Rydberg platform. The two-dimensional structures
in superconducting QPUs are continuously scaled up and
achieve 127 qubits [53], which is already twice the size of
the 64-qubit system studied here. Although trapped ions
systems are one-dimensional, their strong long-range in-
teractions allow an all-to-all connectivity [54] which can
lead to a rapid growth of entanglement and the classical
resources needed for the digital twin. In the following,
we consider solely Rydberg systems, i.e., neutral atoms.
For the Rydberg platform, the physics required to un-
derstand the parallelization of the GHZ state preparation
can be summarized according to Fig. 1. We focus on the
crosstalk in a closed quantum system in this section and
discuss open system effects in Sec. II. Figure 1a) shows a
sketch of a 4×4setup of Rydberg atoms in optical tweez-
ers; the lattice constant of the grid aintroduces the first
relevant length scale. Within the Rydberg blockade ra-
dius rB, only a single atom can be excited to the Rydberg
state due to the van der Waals interactions. We work at
a fixed Rydberg blockade radius rB= 4.98µm=1.66ain
accordance with the experimental parameters proposed
in Ref. [44], which also provides the time-optimal CZ gate
used in the simulation here as well as the parameters for
a Strontium-88 setup; the pulse sequence for the time-
optimal CZ gate stems from optimal control. On the one
hand, the van der Waals interaction is giving rise to the
Rydberg blockade which is exploited to implement an
entangling gate between two atoms; on the other hand,
the van der Waals interaction leads to possible crosstalk
if multiple entangling gates act in parallel and atoms of
two different CZ gates interact via van der Waals inter-