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Quantum error detection can produce unbiased expectation values that exponentially converge to noiseless results as the code distance is increased. Despite this, its performance as an error mitigation technique is relatively understudied on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Yanis Le Fur , Ethan Egger , Hong-Ye Hu , Vincent Russo , William J. Zeng , Ryan LaRose

We study the problem of efficiently learning an unknown $n$-qubit unitary channel in diamond distance given query access. We present a general framework showing that if Pauli operators remain low-complexity under conjugation by a unitary,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Sabee Grewal , Daniel Liang

A striking feature of quantum error correcting codes is that they can sometimes be used to correct more errors than they can uniquely identify. Such degenerate codes have long been known, but have remained poorly understood. We provide a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Graeme Smith , John A. Smolin

Recently, a purely quantum version of polar codes has been proposed in [1] based on a quantum channel combining and splitting procedure, where a randomly chosen two-qubit Clifford unitary acts as channel combining operation. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Ashutosh Goswami , Mehdi Mhalla , Valentin Savin

We discuss a method to adapt the codeword stabilized (CWS) quantum code framework to the problem of finding asymmetric quantum codes. We focus on the corresponding Pauli error models for amplitude damping noise and phase damping noise. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-31 Tyler Jackson , Markus Grassl , Bei Zeng

Accurate modeling of noise in realistic quantum processors is critical for constructing fault-tolerant quantum computers. While a full simulation of actual noisy quantum circuits provides information about correlated noise among all qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 F. Setiawan , Alexander V. Gramolin , Elisha S. Matekole , Hari Krovi , Jacob M. Taylor

Fidelity estimation is essential for the quality control of entanglement distribution networks. Because measurements collapse quantum states, we consider a setup in which nodes randomly sample a subset of the entangled qubit pairs to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-10 Liangzhong Ruan

Noise forms a central obstacle to effective quantum information processing. Recent experimental advances have enabled the tailoring of noise properties through Pauli twirling, transforming arbitrary noise channels into Pauli channels. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Joris Kattemölle , Balázs Gulácsi , Guido Burkard

Quantum classification faces two key challenges. First, the difficulty of distinguishing between different classes varies: some class pairs are easy to separate, while others are more challenging. Second, practical execution is affected by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yuhang Tu , Shengmei Zhao , Le Wang , Anqi Zhang

Benchmarking physical devices and verifying logical algorithms are important tasks for scalable fault-tolerant quantum computing. Numerous protocols exist for benchmarking devices before running actual algorithms. In this work, we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Xiao Xiao , Dominik Hangleiter , Dolev Bluvstein , Mikhail D. Lukin , Michael J. Gullans

Pauli Check Sandwiching (PCS) is an error detection scheme that protects quantum circuits by inserting pairs of parity checks and discarding runs that signal errors. However, each additional check introduces noise and exponentially…

Decoherence severely limits the performance of quantum processors, posing challenges to reliable quantum computation. Probabilistic error cancellation, a quantum error mitigation method, counteracts noise by quasiprobabilistically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Tian-Ren Jin , Kai Xu , Yu-Ran Zhang , Heng Fan

Laboratory hardware is rapidly progressing towards a state where quantum error-correcting codes can be realised. As such, we must learn how to deal with the complex nature of the noise that may occur in real physical systems. Single qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Naomi H. Nickerson , Benjamin J. Brown

Characterising the performance of noisy quantum circuits is central to the production of prototype quantum computers and can enable improved quantum error correction that exploits noise biases identified in a quantum device. We develop a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Evan T. Hockings , Andrew C. Doherty , Robin Harper

Effective methods for characterizing the noise in quantum computing devices are essential for programming and debugging circuit performance. Existing approaches vary in the information obtained as well as the amount of quantum and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-10 Megan L. Dahlhauser , Travis S. Humble

To address the challenge posed by noise in real quantum devices, quantum error mitigation techniques play a crucial role. These techniques are resource-efficient, making them suitable for implementation in noisy intermediate-scale quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Jordi Pérez-Guijarro , Alba Pagès-Zamora , Javier R. Fonollosa

Fidelity is one of the most valuable and commonly used metrics for assessing the performance of quantum circuits on error-prone quantum processors. Several approaches have been proposed to estimate circuit fidelity without executing it on…

We develop an error mitigation method for the control-free phase estimation. We prove a theorem that under the first-order correction, the noise channels with only Hermitian Kraus operators do not change the phases of a unitary operator,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-23 Yanwu Gu , Yunheng Ma , Nicolo Forcellini , Dong E. Liu

We propose a hybrid protocol to classify quantum noises using supervised classical machine learning models and simple quantum key distribution protocols. We consider the quantum bit error rates (QBERs) generated in QKD schemes under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Shreya Banerjee , Ashmi A. , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

Quantum error correction protocols have been developed to offset the high sensitivity to noise inherent in quantum systems. However, much is still unknown about the behaviour of a quantum error-correcting code under general noise, including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Stefanie J. Beale , Joel J. Wallman