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20152026
most citedDirect randomized benchmarking for multi-qubit devices

118 citations · 428 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

quant-ph2026

Gate Synthesis in Dephasing-Limited Nitrogen-Vacancy Ensembles

Ankita Chakravarty, Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, Eva Dupont-Ferrier +1

Ensemble nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers are widely used for quantum sensing and magnetometry, where performance depends on the accurate implementation of microwave pulse sequences.…

quant-ph2026

Digital Predistortion for Flux Control of Tunable Superconducting Qubits

Dharun Venkateswaran, Felice Francesco Tafuri, Yuanzheng Paul Tan +8

Flux-tunable superconducting qubits rely on fast flux control pulses to implement two-qubit entangling quantum gates, a key building block for quantum algorithms. However, distorti…

quant-ph2025

Easier randomizing gates provide more accurate fidelity estimation

Debankan Sannamoth, Kristine Boone, Arnaud Carignan-Dugas +4

Accurate benchmarking of quantum gates is crucial for understanding and enhancing the performance of quantum hardware. A standard method for this is interleaved benchmarking, a tec…

quant-ph2023★ 10 cited

Quasi-Probabilistic Readout Correction of Mid-Circuit Measurements for Adaptive Feedback via Measurement Randomized Compiling

Akel Hashim, Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, Larry Chen +6

Quantum measurements are a fundamental component of quantum computing. However, on modern-day quantum computers, measurements can be more error prone than quantum gates, and are su…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

Extending the Computational Reach of a Superconducting Qutrit Processor

Noah Goss, Samuele Ferracin, Akel Hashim +5

Quantum computing with qudits is an emerging approach that exploits a larger, more-connected computational space, providing advantages for many applications, including quantum simu…

quant-ph2023★ 6 cited

The Error Reconstruction and Compiled Calibration of Quantum Computing Cycles

Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, Dar Dahlen, Ian Hincks +6

Quantum computers are inhibited by physical errors that occur during computation. For this reason, the development of increasingly sophisticated error characterization and error su…

quant-ph2023★ 3 cited

Estimating Coherent Contributions to the Error Profile Using Cycle Error Reconstruction

Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, Shashank Kumar Ranu, Patrick Dreher

Mitigation and calibration schemes are central to maximize the computational reach of today's Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) hardware, but these schemes are often speciali…

quant-ph2023★ 3 cited

A Theory of Direct Randomized Benchmarking

Anthony M. Polloreno, Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, Jordan Hines +3

Randomized benchmarking (RB) protocols are widely used to measure an average error rate for a set of quantum logic gates. However, the standard version of RB is limited because it…

quant-ph2022

Applying NOX Error Mitigation Protocols to Calculate Real-time Quantum Field Theory Scattering Phase Shifts

Zachary Parks, Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, Erik Gustafson +2

Real-time scattering calculations on a Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) quantum computer are disrupted by errors that accumulate throughout the circuits. To improve the accu…

quant-ph2022★ 27 cited

Efficiently improving the performance of noisy quantum computers

Samuele Ferracin, Akel Hashim, Jean-Loup Ville +7

Using near-term quantum computers to achieve a quantum advantage requires efficient strategies to improve the performance of the noisy quantum devices presently available. We devel…

quant-ph2019★ 14 cited

A polar decomposition for quantum channels (with applications to bounding error propagation in quantum circuits)

Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, Matthew Alexander, Joseph Emerson

Inevitably, assessing the overall performance of a quantum computer must rely on characterizing some of its elementary constituents and, from this information, formulate a broader…

quant-ph2018★ 19 cited

Randomized Benchmarking under Different Gatesets

Kristine Boone, Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, Joel J. Wallman +1

We provide a comprehensive analysis of the differences between two important standards for randomized benchmarking (RB): the Clifford-group RB protocol proposed originally in Emers…

quant-ph2018★ 118 cited

Direct randomized benchmarking for multi-qubit devices

Timothy J. Proctor, Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, Kenneth Rudinger +3

Benchmarking methods that can be adapted to multi-qubit systems are essential for assessing the overall or "holistic" performance of nascent quantum processors. The current industr…

quant-ph2018★ 34 cited

From randomized benchmarking experiments to gateset circuit fidelity: how to interpret randomized benchmarking decay parameters

Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, Kristine Boone, Joel J. Wallman +1

Randomized benchmarking (RB) protocols have become an essential tool for providing a meaningful partial characterization of experimental quantum operations. While the RB decay rate…

quant-ph2016★ 43 cited

Bounding the average gate fidelity of composite channels using the unitarity

Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, Joel J. Wallman, Joseph Emerson

There is currently a significant need for robust and efficient methods for characterizing quantum devices. While there has been significant progress in this direction, there remain…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 48 cited

A coupled 22D Babcock-Leighton solar dynamo model. I. Surface magnetic flux evolution

Alexandre Lemerle, Paul Charbonneau, Arnaud Carignan-Dugas

The need for reliable predictions of the solar activity cycle motivates the development of dynamo models incorporating a representation of surface processes sufficiently detailed t…

quant-ph2015★ 99 cited

Characterizing Universal Gate Sets via Dihedral Benchmarking

Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, Joel J. Wallman, Joseph Emerson

We describe a practical experimental protocol for robustly characterizing the error rates of non-Clifford gates associated with dihedral groups, including gates in SU(2) associated…