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Statistical modeling of quantum error propagation

Quantum Physics 2024-08-29 v1

Abstract

In this paper, I design a new statistical abstract model for studying quantum error propagation. For each circuit, I give the algorithm to construct the Error propagation space-time graph(\textbf{EPSTG}) graph as well as the bipartite reverse spanning graph (\textbf{RSG}). Then I prove that the problem of finding an error pattern is P\mathcal{P} while calculate the error number distribution is NP-complete\textit{NP-complete}. I invent the new measure for error propagation and show that for widely used transversal CNOTCNOT circuit in parallel, the shift of distribution is bounded by n27\frac{n}{27}, where nn is the number of physical qubits. The consistency between the result of qiskit simulation and my algorithm justify the correctness of my model. Applying the framework to random circuit, I show that there is severe unbounded error propagation when circuit has global connection. We also apply my framework on parallel transversal logical CNOTCNOT gate in surface code, and demonstrate that the error threshold will decrease from 0.2310.231 to 0.1340.134 per cycle.

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@article{arxiv.2408.15459,
  title  = {Statistical modeling of quantum error propagation},
  author = {Zhuoyang Ye},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.15459},
  year   = {2024}
}
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