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A long-standing challenge in quantum computing is developing technologies to overcome the inevitable noise in qubits. To enable meaningful applications in the early stages of fault-tolerant quantum computing, devising methods to suppress…

We investigate the problem of predicting the output behavior of unknown quantum channels. Given query access to an $n$-qubit channel $E$ and an observable $O$, we aim to learn the mapping \begin{equation*} \rho \mapsto \mathrm{Tr}(O…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Sitan Chen , Jaume de Dios Pont , Jun-Ting Hsieh , Hsin-Yuan Huang , Jane Lange , Jerry Li

In quantum error correction, the description of noise channel cannot be completely accurate, and fluctuation always appears in noise channel. It is found that when fluctuation of physical noise channel is considered, the average effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Long Huang , Xiaohua Wu , Tao Zhou

Modeling and simulation is essential for predicting and verifying the behavior of fabricated quantum circuits, but existing simulation methods are either impractically costly or require an unrealistic simplification of error processes. We…

Quantum error mitigation (QEM) is critical in reducing the impact of noise in the pre-fault-tolerant era, and is expected to complement error correction in fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC). In this paper, we propose a novel QEM…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Hrushikesh Pramod Patil , Dror Baron , Huiyang Zhou

Randomized compiling reduces the effects of errors on quantum computers by tailoring arbitrary Markovian errors into stochastic Pauli noise. Here we prove that randomized compiling also tailors non-Markovian errors into local stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-16 Adam Winick , Joel J. Wallman , Dar Dahlen , Ian Hincks , Egor Ospadov , Joseph Emerson

Coherent noise can be much more damaging than incoherent (probabilistic) noise in the context of quantum error correction. One solution is to use twirling to turn coherent noise into incoherent Pauli channels. In this Article, we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 Zhenyu Cai , Xiaosi Xu , Simon C. Benjamin

Correlated noise is a critical failure mode in quantum error correction (QEC), as temporal memory and spatial structure concentrate faults into error bursts that undermine standard threshold assumptions. Yet, a fundamental gap persists…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 John F Kam , Angus Southwell , Spiro Gicev , Muhammad Usman , Kavan Modi

Recently, a lot of effort has been devoted towards designing erasure qubits in which dominant physical noise excites leakage states whose population can be detected and returned to the qubit subspace. Interest in these erasure qubits has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Kathleen Chang , Shraddha Singh , Jahan Claes , Kaavya Sahay , James Teoh , Shruti Puri

In this article, based on some simple and reasonable assumptions, we derive a Gaussian noise model for quantum amplitude estimation. We provide results from quantum amplitude estimation run on various IBM superconducting quantum computers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Steven Herbert , Ifan Williams , Roland Guichard , Darren Ng

We analyse a model for fault-tolerant quantum computation with low overhead suitable for situations where the noise is biased. The basis for this scheme is a gadget for the fault-tolerant preparation of magic states that enable universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-07 Paul Webster , Stephen D. Bartlett , David Poulin

Recently Shor showed how to perform fault tolerant quantum computation when the error probability is logarithmically small. We improve this bound and describe fault tolerant quantum computation when the error probability is smaller than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Dorit Aharonov , Michael Ben-Or

We discuss the estimation of channel parameters for a noisy quantum channel - the so-called Pauli channel - using finite resources. It turns out that prior entanglement considerably enhances the fidelity of the estimation when we compare it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dietmar G. Fischer , Holger Mack , Markus A. Cirone , Matthias Freyberger

A quantum algorithm for the calculation of $\pi$ is proposed and implemented on the five-qubit IBM quantum computer with superconducting qubits. We find $\pi=3.157\pm0.017$. The error is due to the noise of quantum one-qubit operations and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-16 G. A. Bochkin , S. I. Doronin , E. B. Fel'dman , A. I. Zenchuk

We provide analytic, numerical and experimental evidence that the amount of noise in digital quantum simulation of local observables can be independent of system size in a number of situations. We provide a microscopic explanation of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Etienne Granet , Henrik Dreyer

Group twirling is crucial in quantum information processing, particularly in randomized benchmarking and random compiling. While protocols based on Pauli twirling have been effectively crafted to transform arbitrary noise channels into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Guoding Liu , Ziyi Xie , Zitai Xu , Xiongfeng Ma

Stabilizer simulation of Clifford quantum circuits - error-correction circuits, Clifford subroutines, etc. - on classical computers has played a central role in our understanding of circuit performance. The stabilizer description, however,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Mark Myers , Mariesa H. Teo , Rajesh Mishra , Jing Hao Chai , Hui Khoon Ng

This letter further explores the recent scheme of switched quantum channels with indefinite causal order applied to the reference metrological task of quantum phase estimation in the presence of noise. We especially extend the explorations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Francois Chapeau-Blondeau

Quantum error mitigation is a promising route to achieving quantum utility, and potentially quantum advantage in the near-term. Many state-of-the-art error mitigation schemes use knowledge of the errors in the quantum processor, which opens…

We prove new upper bounds on the tolerable level of noise in a quantum circuit. We consider circuits consisting of unitary k-qubit gates each of whose input wires is subject to depolarizing noise of strength p, as well as arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-12 Julia Kempe , Oded Regev , Falk Unger , Ronald de Wolf