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Main Authors: Atif, Touheed Anwar, Tate, Reuben Blake, Eidenbenz, Stephan
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18513
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author Atif, Touheed Anwar
Tate, Reuben Blake
Eidenbenz, Stephan
author_facet Atif, Touheed Anwar
Tate, Reuben Blake
Eidenbenz, Stephan
contents Precise quantum expectation values are crucial for quantum algorithm development, but noise in real-world systems can degrade these estimations. While quantum error correction is resource-intensive, error mitigation strategies offer a practical alternative. This paper presents a framework that combines Virtual Channel Purification (VCP) technique with Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) optimization to improve expectation value estimations in noisy quantum circuits. Our contributions are twofold: first, we derive conditions to compare CVaR values from different probability distributions, offering insights into the reliability of quantum estimations under noise. Second, we apply this framework to VCP, providing analytical bounds that establish its effectiveness in improving expectation values, both when the overhead VCP circuit is ideal (error-free) and when it adds additional noise. By introducing CVaR into the analysis of VCP, we offer a general noise-characterization method that guarantees improved expectation values for any quantum observable. We demonstrate the practical utility of our approach with numerical examples, highlighting how our bounds guide VCP implementation in noisy quantum systems.
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spellingShingle Enhancing Quantum Expectation Values via Exponential Error Suppression and CVaR Optimization
Atif, Touheed Anwar
Tate, Reuben Blake
Eidenbenz, Stephan
Quantum Physics
Precise quantum expectation values are crucial for quantum algorithm development, but noise in real-world systems can degrade these estimations. While quantum error correction is resource-intensive, error mitigation strategies offer a practical alternative. This paper presents a framework that combines Virtual Channel Purification (VCP) technique with Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) optimization to improve expectation value estimations in noisy quantum circuits. Our contributions are twofold: first, we derive conditions to compare CVaR values from different probability distributions, offering insights into the reliability of quantum estimations under noise. Second, we apply this framework to VCP, providing analytical bounds that establish its effectiveness in improving expectation values, both when the overhead VCP circuit is ideal (error-free) and when it adds additional noise. By introducing CVaR into the analysis of VCP, we offer a general noise-characterization method that guarantees improved expectation values for any quantum observable. We demonstrate the practical utility of our approach with numerical examples, highlighting how our bounds guide VCP implementation in noisy quantum systems.
title Enhancing Quantum Expectation Values via Exponential Error Suppression and CVaR Optimization
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18513