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Scalable mitigation of measurement errors on quantum computers

Quantum Physics 2021-11-11 v1

Abstract

We present a method for mitigating measurement errors on quantum computing platforms that does not form the full assignment matrix, or its inverse, and works in a subspace defined by the noisy input bit-strings. This method accommodates both uncorrelated and correlated errors, and allows for computing accurate error bounds. Additionally, we detail a matrix-free preconditioned iterative solution method that converges in O(1)\mathcal{O}(1) steps that is performant and uses orders of magnitude less memory than direct factorization. We demonstrate the validity of our method, and mitigate errors in a few seconds on numbers of qubits that would otherwise be intractable.

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@article{arxiv.2108.12518,
  title  = {Scalable mitigation of measurement errors on quantum computers},
  author = {Paul D. Nation and Hwajung Kang and Neereja Sundaresan and Jay M. Gambetta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.12518},
  year   = {2021}
}

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9 pages, 8 figures, 1 table

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