Mitigating Depolarizing Noise on Quantum Computers with Noise-Estimation Circuits
Abstract
A significant problem for current quantum computers is noise. While there are many distinct noise channels, the depolarizing noise model often appropriately describes average noise for large circuits involving many qubits and gates. We present a method to mitigate the depolarizing noise by first estimating its rate with a noise-estimation circuit and then correcting the output of the target circuit using the estimated rate. The method is experimentally validated on a simulation of the Heisenberg model. We find that our approach in combination with readout-error correction, randomized compiling, and zero-noise extrapolation produces close to exact results even for circuits containing hundreds of CNOT gates. We also show analytically that zero-noise extrapolation is improved when it is applied to the output of our method.
- Authors:
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR); USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1773720
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1922812
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; KA2401032; AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 127; Journal Issue: 27; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS
Citation Formats
Urbanek, Miroslav, Nachman, Benjamin, Pascuzzi, Vincent R., He, Andre, Bauer, Christian W., and de Jong, Wibe A. Mitigating Depolarizing Noise on Quantum Computers with Noise-Estimation Circuits. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.127.270502.
Urbanek, Miroslav, Nachman, Benjamin, Pascuzzi, Vincent R., He, Andre, Bauer, Christian W., & de Jong, Wibe A. Mitigating Depolarizing Noise on Quantum Computers with Noise-Estimation Circuits. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.127.270502
Urbanek, Miroslav, Nachman, Benjamin, Pascuzzi, Vincent R., He, Andre, Bauer, Christian W., and de Jong, Wibe A. Mon .
"Mitigating Depolarizing Noise on Quantum Computers with Noise-Estimation Circuits". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.127.270502. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1773720.
@article{osti_1773720,
title = {Mitigating Depolarizing Noise on Quantum Computers with Noise-Estimation Circuits},
author = {Urbanek, Miroslav and Nachman, Benjamin and Pascuzzi, Vincent R. and He, Andre and Bauer, Christian W. and de Jong, Wibe A.},
abstractNote = {A significant problem for current quantum computers is noise. While there are many distinct noise channels, the depolarizing noise model often appropriately describes average noise for large circuits involving many qubits and gates. We present a method to mitigate the depolarizing noise by first estimating its rate with a noise-estimation circuit and then correcting the output of the target circuit using the estimated rate. The method is experimentally validated on a simulation of the Heisenberg model. We find that our approach in combination with readout-error correction, randomized compiling, and zero-noise extrapolation produces close to exact results even for circuits containing hundreds of CNOT gates. We also show analytically that zero-noise extrapolation is improved when it is applied to the output of our method.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.127.270502},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 27,
volume = 127,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Dec 27 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Mon Dec 27 00:00:00 EST 2021}
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