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Alibaba Cloud Quantum Development Platform: Surface Code Simulations with Crosstalk

Quantum Physics 2020-02-21 v1

Abstract

We report, in a sequence of notes, our work on the Alibaba Cloud Quantum Development Platform (AC-QDP). AC-QDP provides a set of tools for aiding the development of both quantum computing algorithms and quantum processors, and is powered by a large-scale classical simulator deployed on Alibaba Cloud. In this note, we simulate a distance-3 logical qubit encoded in the 17-qubit surface code using experimental noise parameters for transmon qubits in a planar circuit QED architecture. Our simulation features crosstalk induced by ZZ-interactions. We show that at the current-stage noise levels, crosstalk contributes significantly to the dephasing of the logical qubit. This results in a total phase-flip probability of 0.6%\sim 0.6\%, about 60%60\% higher than expected without considering crosstalk. This indicates that for the code considered, the current noise parameters approach, but do not yet meet, the break-even fault-tolerance regime.

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@article{arxiv.2002.08918,
  title  = {Alibaba Cloud Quantum Development Platform: Surface Code Simulations with Crosstalk},
  author = {Cupjin Huang and Xiaotong Ni and Fang Zhang and Michael Newman and Dawei Ding and Xun Gao and Tenghui Wang and Hui-Hai Zhao and Feng Wu and Gengyan Zhang and Chunqing Deng and Hsiang-Sheng Ku and Jianxin Chen and Yaoyun Shi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.08918},
  year   = {2020}
}

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23 pages, 6 figures

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