Leakage in restless quantum gate calibration
arXiv:2304.09297 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.108.022614
Abstract
Quantum computers require high fidelity quantum gates. These gates are obtained by routine calibration tasks that eat into the availability of cloud-based devices. Restless circuit execution speeds-up characterization and calibration by foregoing qubit reset in between circuits. Post-processing the measured data recovers the desired signal. However, since the qubits are not reset, leakage -- typically present at the beginning of the calibration -- may cause issues. Here, we develop a simulator of restless circuit execution based on a Markov Chain to study the effect of leakage. In the context of error amplifying single-qubit gates sequences, we show that restless calibration tolerates up to 0.5% of leakage which is large compared to the gate fidelity of modern single-qubit gates. Furthermore, we show that restless circuit execution with leaky gates reduces by 33% the sensitivity of the ORBIT cost function developed by J. Kelly et al. which is typically used in closed-loop optimal control~[Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 240504 (2014)]. Our results are obtained with standard qubit state discrimination showing that restless circuit execution is resilient against misclassified non-computational states. In summary, the restless method is sufficiently robust against leakage in both standard and closed-loop optimal control gate calibration to provided accurate results.
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