Lao, Lingling;
Korotkov, Alexander;
Jiang, Zhang;
Mruczkiewicz, Wojciech;
O'Brien, Thomas E;
Browne, Dan E;
(2022)
Software mitigation of coherent two-qubit gate errors.
Quantum Science and Technology
, 7
(2)
, Article 025021. 10.1088/2058-9565/ac57f1.
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Abstract
Two-qubit gates are important components of quantum computing. However, unwanted interactions between qubits (so-called parasitic gates) can be particularly problematic and degrade the performance of quantum applications. In this work, we present two software methods to mitigate parasitic two-qubit gate errors. The first approach is built upon the Cartan's KAK decomposition and keeps the original unitary decomposition for the error-free native two-qubit gate. It counteracts a parasitic two-qubit gate by only applying single-qubit rotations and therefore has no two-qubit gate overhead. We show the optimal choice of single-qubit mitigation gates. The second approach applies a numerical optimisation algorithm to re-compile a target unitary into the error-parasitic two-qubit gate plus single-qubit gates. We demonstrate these approaches on the CPhase-parasitic iSWAP-like gates. The KAK-based approach helps decrease unitary infidelity by a factor of 3 compared to the noisy implementation without error mitigation. When arbitrary single-qubit rotations are allowed, recompilation could completely mitigate the effect of parasitic errors but may require more native gates than the KAK-based approach. We also compare their average gate fidelity under realistic noise models, including relaxation and depolarising errors. Numerical results suggest that different approaches are advantageous in different error regimes, providing error mitigation guidance for near-term quantum computers.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Software mitigation of coherent two-qubit gate errors |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1088/2058-9565/ac57f1 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/ac57f1 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 IOP Publishing. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10146812 |
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