Extrapolating Pauli Checks for Expectation Value Estimation on Noisy Quantum Devices

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Autori principali: Langfitt, Quinn, Liu, Ji, Huang, Benchen, Gonzales, Alvin, Smith, Kaitlin N., Hardavellas, Nikos, Saleem, Zain H.
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Langfitt, Quinn
Liu, Ji
Huang, Benchen
Gonzales, Alvin
Smith, Kaitlin N.
Hardavellas, Nikos
Saleem, Zain H.
author_facet Langfitt, Quinn
Liu, Ji
Huang, Benchen
Gonzales, Alvin
Smith, Kaitlin N.
Hardavellas, Nikos
Saleem, Zain H.
contents Pauli Check Sandwiching (PCS) is an error detection scheme that protects quantum circuits by inserting pairs of parity checks and discarding runs that signal errors. However, each additional check introduces noise and exponentially increases sampling costs. To address these limitations, we propose Pauli Check Extrapolation (PCE), an error mitigation technique that obtains measured expectation values from circuits with different numbers of checks and, analogous to ZNE, extrapolates to the ``maximum check'' limit -- the theoretical number of checks required for unit fidelity. We test linear and exponential ansatzes, deriving the exponential form from the Markovian error model. Benchmarking PCE against ZNE on random Clifford circuits with simulated depolarizing noise shows PCE outperforming ZNE for larger circuits. On real IBM hardware, PCE achieves an accuracy of up to 99.2% (56.2% improvement over baseline), compared to ZNE's 82% accuracy (29.1% improvement over baseline), for 4-qubit circuits. To demonstrate a practical use case, we then apply PCE towards mitigating errors in classical shadow measurements. Our results show that PCE can achieve fidelities greater than the state-of-the-art Robust Shadow estimation, while significantly reducing the number of required samples by eliminating the need for a calibration procedure. We validate these findings on both fully connected topologies and simulated IBM hardware backends.
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spellingShingle Extrapolating Pauli Checks for Expectation Value Estimation on Noisy Quantum Devices
Langfitt, Quinn
Liu, Ji
Huang, Benchen
Gonzales, Alvin
Smith, Kaitlin N.
Hardavellas, Nikos
Saleem, Zain H.
Quantum Physics
Pauli Check Sandwiching (PCS) is an error detection scheme that protects quantum circuits by inserting pairs of parity checks and discarding runs that signal errors. However, each additional check introduces noise and exponentially increases sampling costs. To address these limitations, we propose Pauli Check Extrapolation (PCE), an error mitigation technique that obtains measured expectation values from circuits with different numbers of checks and, analogous to ZNE, extrapolates to the ``maximum check'' limit -- the theoretical number of checks required for unit fidelity. We test linear and exponential ansatzes, deriving the exponential form from the Markovian error model. Benchmarking PCE against ZNE on random Clifford circuits with simulated depolarizing noise shows PCE outperforming ZNE for larger circuits. On real IBM hardware, PCE achieves an accuracy of up to 99.2% (56.2% improvement over baseline), compared to ZNE's 82% accuracy (29.1% improvement over baseline), for 4-qubit circuits. To demonstrate a practical use case, we then apply PCE towards mitigating errors in classical shadow measurements. Our results show that PCE can achieve fidelities greater than the state-of-the-art Robust Shadow estimation, while significantly reducing the number of required samples by eliminating the need for a calibration procedure. We validate these findings on both fully connected topologies and simulated IBM hardware backends.
title Extrapolating Pauli Checks for Expectation Value Estimation on Noisy Quantum Devices
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14759