Diagnosing and Destroying Non-Markovian Noise
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
Nearly every protocol used to analyze the performance of quantum information processors is based on an assumption that the errors experienced by the device during logical operations are constant in time and are insensitive to external contexts. This assumption is pervasive, rarely stated, and almost always wrong. Quantum devices that do behave this way are termed "Markovian:' but nearly every system we have ever probed has displayed drift or crosstalk or memory effects they are all non-Markovian. Strong non-Markovianity introduces spurious effects in characterization protocols and violates assumptions of the fault-tolerance threshold theorems. This SAND report details a three year laboratory-directed research and development (LDRD) project entitled, "Diagnosing and Destroying non-Markovian Noise in Quantum Information Processors." This program was initiated to build tools to study non-Markovian dynamics and quantum systems and develop robust methodologies for eliminating it. The program achieved a number of notable successes, including the first statistically rigorous protocol for identifying and characterizing drift in quantum systems, a formalism for modeling memory effects in quantum devices, and the successful suppression of drift in a Sandia trapped-ion quantum processor.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States); Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000; NA0003525
- OSTI ID:
- 1671379
- Report Number(s):
- SAND--2020-10396; 691214
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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