Improving Performance of an Analog Electronic Device Using Quantum Error Correction

Abstract

The use of analog classical systems for computation is generally thought to be a difficult proposition due to the susceptibility of these devices to noise and the lack of a clear framework for achieving fault-tolerance. We present experimental results for the application of quantum error correction (QEC) techniques to a prototype analog computational device called a quantum emulation device. It is shown that for the gates tested (transversal $Z$, $X$ and $SH$) there is a marked improvement in the performance characteristics of the gate operations following error correction using the 5-Qubit Perfect code. In the case of the $Z$ gate, the median fidelity improved from 0.995 to 0.99998, a reduction in the gate error by over two orders of magnitude. Other transverse gates similarly show strong improvements.

15 pages, 4 figures

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