Quantum autoencoders to denoise quantum data

Abstract

Entangled states are an important resource for quantum computation, communication, metrology, and the simulation of many-body systems. However, noise limits the experimental preparation of such states. Classical data can be efficiently denoised by autoencoders---neural networks trained in unsupervised manner. We develop a novel quantum autoencoder that successfully denoises Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states subject to spin-flip errors and random unitary noise. Various emergent quantum technologies could benefit from the proposed unsupervised quantum neural networks.