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General error mitigation for quantum circuits

Quantum Physics 2020-11-24 v1

Abstract

A general method to mitigate the effect of errors in quantum circuits is outlined. The method is developed in sight of characteristics that an ideal method should possess and to ameliorate an existing method which only mitigates state preparation and measurement errors. The method is tested on different IBM Q quantum devices, using randomly generated circuits with up to four qubits. A large majority of results show significant error mitigation.

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@article{arxiv.2011.10860,
  title  = {General error mitigation for quantum circuits},
  author = {Manpreet Singh Jattana and Fengping Jin and Hans De Raedt and Kristel Michielsen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.10860},
  year   = {2020}
}