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DA-CASE: reusable measurements for adaptive quantum subspaces

Aug 2026 · 0 citations · 5 references
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Abstract

Quantum subspace methods are often compared by basis dimension or energyerror, although their dominant experimental costs arise from different statepreparations, measurement settings, and shot allocations. We present theDyadic Adaptive Clifford-Algebra Subspace Eigensolver (DA-CASE), whose basisstates are virtual directions $A_i|\psi\rangle$ generated from one reference.Overlap, Hamiltonian, and observable matrices are reconstructed from onecached set of Pauli expectations on that reference. The method thereforetrades multiple prepared basis states for a potentially wide measurement bank.We make that trade explicit on a frozen eight-qubit H$_4$ Hamiltonian. Twogenerator resolutions reach the same nine-dimensional subspace and the sameenergy to machine precision, while the retained bank changes from 7371 to 2240Pauli words. A reference-conditioned symmetry test certifies the narrower spanwithout asserting that its individual Pauli words conserve the sector asabstract operators. Independently, a dyadic commuting hierarchy reduces thedeterminant bank from 913 qubit-wise-commuting settings to 64 fully commutingsettings, while exposing the added logical-CX cost. In a separate four-qubitfinite-shot diagnostic, covariance-aware allocation reduces theprojected-matrix variance target by 68.9%. Mode-wise overlap regularizationremoves the observed catastrophic energy estimates and lowers RMSE, butdoubles the median error relative to a fixed cutoff. These are small-instanceexact and Monte Carlo results, not a hardware demonstration, scaling result,or quantum advantage claim. The contribution is a single-referencemeasurement architecture and a resource ledger that keeps contexts, settings,shots, circuit depth, and post-selection retries in their proper units.

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