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Current hardware for quantum computing suffers from high levels of noise, and so to achieve practical fault-tolerant quantum computing will require powerful and efficient methods to correct for errors in quantum circuits. Here, we explore…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Aditya Jain , Pavithran Iyer , Stephen D. Bartlett , Joseph Emerson

We describe how to use the fidelity decay as a tool to characterize the errors affecting a quantum information processor through a noise generator $G_{\tau}$. For weak noise, the initial decay rate of the fidelity proves to be a simple way…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Benjamin Lévi , Cecilia C. López , Joseph Emerson , D. G. Cory

Quantum computing has significantly advanced in recent years, boasting devices with hundreds of quantum bits (qubits), hinting at its potential quantum advantage over classical computing. Yet, noise in quantum devices poses significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Jinyang Li , Samudra Dasgupta , Yuhong Song , Lei Yang , Travis Humble , Weiwen Jiang

Quantum error correction is essential for reliable quantum computation, where surface codes demonstrate high fault-tolerant thresholds and hardware efficiency. However, noise in single-shot measurements limits logical readout fidelity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Xiao-Yue Xu , Chen Ding , Wan-Su Bao

To make arbitrarily accurate quantum computation possible, practical realization of quantum computers will require suppressing noise in quantum memory and gate operations to make it below a threshold value. A scheme based on realistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lu-Ming Duan , Guang-Can Guo

Neutral atom arrays have recently emerged as a promising platform for quantum information processing. One important remaining roadblock for the large-scale application of these systems is the ability to perform error-corrected quantum…

Spatiotemporally correlated errors are widespread in quantum devices and are particularly adversarial to error correcting schemes. To characterize these errors, we propose and validate a nonparametric quantum noise spectroscopy (QNS)…

Benchmarking is how the performance of a computing system is determined. Surprisingly, even for classical computers this is not a straightforward process. One must choose the appropriate benchmark and metrics to extract meaningful results.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-07 Salonik Resch , Ulya R. Karpuzcu

A critical question for the field of quantum computing in the near future is whether quantum devices without error correction can perform a well-defined computational task beyond the capabilities of state-of-the-art classical computers,…

Quantum computing has the potential to provide solutions to problems that are intractable on classical computers, but the accuracy of the current generation of quantum computers suffer from the impact of noise or errors such as leakage,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Benjamin Harper , Behnam Tonekaboni , Bahar Goldozian , Martin Sevior , Muhammad Usman

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…

Meaningful quantum computing is currently bottlenecked by the error rates of current generation Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices. To improve the fidelity of the quantum logic gates, it is essential to recognize the…

The detrimental effect of noise accumulates as quantum computers grow in size. In the case where devices are too small or noisy to perform error correction, error mitigation may be used. Error mitigation does not increase the fidelity of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Cristina Cirstoiu , Silas Dilkes , Daniel Mills , Seyon Sivarajah , Ross Duncan

Noisy quantum simulation is challenging since one has to take into account the stochastic nature of the process. The dominating method for it is the density matrix approach. In this paper, we evaluate conditions for which this method is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-31 William Berquist , Danylo Lykov , Minzhao Liu , Yuri Alexeev

Error mitigation (EM) methods are crucial for obtaining reliable results in the realm of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers, where noise significantly impacts output accuracy. Some EM protocols are particularly efficient for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Thibault Scoquart , Hugo Perrin , Kyrylo Snizhko

Noise on quantum devices is much more complex than it is commonly given credit. Far from usual models of decoherence, nearly all quantum devices are plagued both by a continuum of environments and temporal instabilities. These induce noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Gregory A. L. White , Petar Jurcevic , Charles D. Hill , Kavan Modi

Quantum noise is conventionally viewed as a fundamental obstacle in near-term quantum computing, motivating extensive error correction and mitigation strategies. We present numerical evidence that challenges this consensus. Through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Linghua Zhu , Yulong Dong , Ziyu Zhang , Xiaosong Li

We point out that realization of quantum communication protocols in programmable quantum computers provides a deep benchmark for capabilities of real quantum hardware. Particularly, it is prospective to focus on measurements of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-07 A. A. Zhukov , E. O. Kiktenko , A. A. Elistratov , W. V. Pogosov , Yu. E. Lozovik

As large-scale quantum computers become a reality, they will likely exist as centralized cloud resources accessible to a broad user base. Securely delegating private quantum computations to untrusted servers is therefore a foundational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Sanidhya Gupta , Ankur Raina

Quantum simulation, the study of strongly correlated quantum matter using synthetic quantum systems, has been the most successful application of quantum computers to date. It often requires determining observables with high precision, for…