Correcting Coherent Errors by Random Operation on Actual Quantum Hardware
arXiv:2211.16114 · doi:10.3390/e25020324
Abstract
Characterizing and mitigating errors in current noisy intermediate-scale devices is important to improve performance of next generations of quantum hardware. In order to investigate the importance of the different noise mechanisms affecting quantum computation, we perform full quantum process tomography of single qubits in a real quantum processor in which echo experiments are implemented. Besides error sources already included in standard models, the obtained results show the dominant role of coherent errors, which we practically correct by inserting random single-qubit unitaries in the quantum circuit, significantly increasing the circuit length over which quantum computations on actual quantum hardware produce reliable results.
7 pages, 5 figures
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