paper

Probabilistic error cancellation with sparse Pauli-Lindblad models on noisy quantum processors

arXiv:2201.09866 · doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02042-2

Abstract

Noise in pre-fault-tolerant quantum computers can result in biased estimates of physical observables. Accurate bias-free estimates can be obtained using probabilistic error cancellation (PEC), which is an error-mitigation technique that effectively inverts well-characterized noise channels. Learning correlated noise channels in large quantum circuits, however, has been a major challenge and has severely hampered experimental realizations. Our work presents a practical protocol for learning and inverting a sparse noise model that is able to capture correlated noise and scales to large quantum devices. These advances allow us to demonstrate PEC on a superconducting quantum processor with crosstalk errors, thereby providing an important milestone in opening the way to quantum computing with noise-free observables at larger circuit volumes.

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