Extending the computational reach of a superconducting qutrit processor

Goss, Noah; Ferracin, Samuele; Hashim, Akel; Carignan-Dugas, Arnaud; Kreikebaum, John Mark; Naik, Ravi K.; Santiago, David I.; Siddiqi, Irfan

doi:10.1038/s41534-024-00892-z

Title: Extending the computational reach of a superconducting qutrit processor

Journal Article · 14 October 2024 · npj Quantum Information

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-024-00892-z · OSTI ID:2479284

^[1]; Ferracin, Samuele ^[2];

^[3]; Carignan-Dugas, Arnaud ^[2];

^[4]; Naik, Ravi K. ^[4];

^[1]; Siddiqi, Irfan ^[1]

University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Keysight Technologies Canada, Kanata, ON (Canada)
University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Quantum computing with qudits is an emerging approach that exploits a larger, more connected computational space, providing advantages for many applications, including quantum simulation and quantum error correction. Nonetheless, qudits are typically afflicted by more complex errors and suffer greater noise sensitivity which renders their scaling difficult. In this work, we introduce techniques to tailor arbitrary qudit Markovian noise to stochastic Weyl–Heisenberg channels and mitigate noise that commutes with our Clifford and universal two-qudit gate in generic qudit circuits. We experimentally demonstrate these methods on a superconducting transmon qutrit processor, and benchmark their effectiveness for multipartite qutrit entanglement and random circuit sampling, obtaining up to 3× improvement in our results. To the best of our knowledge, this constitutes the first-ever error mitigation experiment performed on qutrits. Our work shows that despite the intrinsic complexity of manipulating higher-dimensional quantum systems, noise tailoring and error mitigation can significantly extend the computational reach of today’s qudit processors.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 2479284

Journal Information:: npj Quantum Information, Journal Name: npj Quantum Information Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 10; ISSN 2056-6387

Publisher:: Nature Partner JournalsCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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