Energy-Consumption Advantage of Quantum Computation
Abstract
Energy consumption in solving computational problems has been gaining growing attention as one of the key performance measures for computers. Quantum computation offers advantages over classical computation in terms of various computational resources; however, proving its energy-consumption advantage has been challenging due to the lack of a theoretical foundation linking the physical concept of energy with the computer-scientific notion of complexity for quantum computation. To bridge this gap, we introduce a general framework for studying the energy consumption of quantum and classical computation, based on a computational model conventionally used for studying query complexity in computational complexity theory. Within this framework, we derive an upper bound for the achievable energy consumption of quantum computation, accounting for imperfections in implementation appearing in practice. As part of this analysis, we construct a protocol for Landauer erasure with finite precision in a finite number of steps, which constitutes a contribution of independent interest. Additionally, we develop techniques for proving a nonzero lower bound of energy consumption of classical computation, based on the energy-conservation law and Landauer’s principle. Using these general bounds, we rigorously prove that quantum computation achieves an exponential energy-consumption advantage over classical computation for solving a paradigmatic computational problem—Simon’s problem. Furthermore,…
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