Experimental demonstration of a high-fidelity virtual two-qubit gate

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate a virtual two-qubit gate and characterize it using quantum process tomography~(QPT). The virtual two-qubit gate decomposes an actual two-qubit gate into single-qubit unitary gates and projection gates in quantum circuits for expectation-value estimation. We implement projection gates via mid-circuit measurements. The deterministic sampling scheme reduces the number of experimental circuit evaluations required for decomposing a virtual two-qubit gate. We also apply quantum error mitigation to suppress the effect of measurement errors and improve the average gate fidelity of a virtual controlled-$Z$ (CZ) gate to $f_{\mathrm{av}}=0.9938\pm 0.0002$. Our results highlight a practical approach to implement virtual two-qubit gates with high fidelities, which are useful for simulating quantum circuits using fewer qubits and implementing two-qubit gates on a distant pair of qubits.

arXiv comment10 pages, 4 figures

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