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most citedA Practical Introduction to Benchmarking and Characterization of Quantum Computers

21 citations · 78 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

quant-ph2026

Logical gate set tomography

Piper C. Wysocki, Juan Gonzalez De Mendoza, Karl Mayer +11

Quantum error correction (QEC) can strongly suppress noise, but predicting whether a computation succeeds requires understanding not only how much effective noise persists after QE…

quant-ph2026

Benchmarking the computational power of quantum computers

Timothy Proctor, Oliver Hart, Oliver Widzowski Maupin +27

Quantum computing hardware is advancing rapidly toward utility-scale machines that will enable scientific breakthroughs. Many teams are pursuing distinct and difficult-to-compare r…

quant-ph2026

Scalable linearized gate set tomography

Ashe Miller, Corey Ostrove, Jordan Hines +4

Characterizing errors on many-qubit quantum computers remains a key challenge to understanding and improving the performance of these devices. Current characterization methods eith…

quant-ph2026

Simulating Quantum Error Correction beyond Pauli Stochastic Errors

Jordan Hines, Corey Ostrove, Kenneth Rudinger +4

Quantum error correction (QEC), the lynchpin of fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC), is designed and validated against well-behaved Pauli stochastic error models. But in real-w…

quant-ph2025

Helios: A 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer

Anthony Ransford, M. S. Allman, Jake Arkinstall +183

We report on Quantinuum Helios, a 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum processor based on the quantum charge-coupled device (QCCD) architecture. Helios features Ba hyperfine…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Efficient simulation of Clifford circuits with small Markovian errors

Ashe Miller, Corey Ostrove, Jordan Hines +3

Classical simulation of noisy quantum circuits is essential for understanding quantum computing experiments. It enables scalable error characterization, analysis of how noise impac…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

When Clifford benchmarks are sufficient; estimating application performance with scalable proxy circuits

Seth Merkel, Timothy Proctor, Samuele Ferracin +4

The goal of benchmarking is to determine how far the output of a noisy system is from its ideal behavior; this becomes exceedingly difficult for large quantum systems where classic…

quant-ph2024

Measuring error rates of mid-circuit measurements

Daniel Hothem, Jordan Hines, Charles Baldwin +3

High-fidelity mid-circuit measurements, which read out the state of specific qubits in a multiqubit processor without destroying them or disrupting their neighbors, are a critical…

quant-ph2024★ 21 cited

A Practical Introduction to Benchmarking and Characterization of Quantum Computers

Akel Hashim, Long B. Nguyen, Noah Goss +16

Rapid progress in quantum technology has transformed quantum computing and quantum information science from theoretical possibilities into tangible engineering challenges. Breakthr…

quant-ph2024★ 8 cited

Pauli Noise Learning for Mid-Circuit Measurements

Jordan Hines, Timothy Proctor

Current benchmarks for mid-circuit measurements (MCMs) are limited in scalability or the types of error they can quantify, necessitating new techniques for quantifying their perfor…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Scalable Full-Stack Benchmarks for Quantum Computers

Jordan Hines, Timothy Proctor

Quantum processors are now able to run quantum circuits that are infeasible to simulate classically, creating a need for benchmarks that assess a quantum processor's rate of errors…

quant-ph2023★ 12 cited

Fully scalable randomized benchmarking without motion reversal

Jordan Hines, Daniel Hothem, Robin Blume-Kohout +2

We introduce binary randomized benchmarking (BiRB), a protocol that streamlines traditional RB by using circuits consisting almost entirely of i.i.d. layers of gates. BiRB reliably…

quant-ph2023

Predictive Models from Quantum Computer Benchmarks

Daniel Hothem, Jordan Hines, Karthik Nataraj +2

Holistic benchmarks for quantum computers are essential for testing and summarizing the performance of quantum hardware. However, holistic benchmarks -- such as algorithmic or rand…

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★ 21 cited

Demonstrating scalable randomized benchmarking of universal gate sets

Jordan Hines, Marie Lu, Ravi K. Naik +12

Randomized benchmarking (RB) protocols are the most widely used methods for assessing the performance of quantum gates. However, the existing RB methods either do not scale to many…

quant-ph2019★ 9 cited

Novel Trotter formulas for digital quantum simulation

Yi-Xiang Liu, Jordan Hines, Zhi Li +2

Quantum simulation promises to address many challenges in fields ranging from quantum chemistry to material science, and high-energy physics, and could be implemented in noisy inte…