On the Importance of Error Mitigation for Quantum Computation
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| author | Aharonov, Dorit Alberton, Ori Arad, Itai Atia, Yosi Bairey, Eyal Brakerski, Zvika Cohen, Itsik Golan, Omri Gurwich, Ilya Kenneth, Oded Leviatan, Eyal Lindner, Netanel H. Melcer, Ron Aharon Meyer, Adiel Schul, Gili Shutman, Maor |
| author_facet | Aharonov, Dorit Alberton, Ori Arad, Itai Atia, Yosi Bairey, Eyal Brakerski, Zvika Cohen, Itsik Golan, Omri Gurwich, Ilya Kenneth, Oded Leviatan, Eyal Lindner, Netanel H. Melcer, Ron Aharon Meyer, Adiel Schul, Gili Shutman, Maor |
| contents | Quantum error mitigation (EM) is a family of hybrid quantum-classical methods for eliminating or reducing the effect of noise and decoherence on quantum algorithms run on quantum hardware, without applying quantum error correction (EC). While EM has many benefits compared to EC, specifically that it requires no (or little) qubit overhead, this benefit comes with a painful price: EM seems to necessitate an overhead in quantum run time which grows as a (mild) exponent. Accordingly, recent results show that EM alone cannot enable exponential quantum advantages (QAs), for an average variant of the expectation value estimation problem. These works raised concerns regarding the role of EM in the road map towards QAs.
We aim to demystify the discussion and provide a clear picture of the role of EM in achieving QAs, both in the near and long term. We first propose a clear distinction between finite QA and asymptotic QA, which is crucial to the understanding of the question, and present the notion of circuit volume boost, which we claim is an adequate way to quantify the benefits of EM. Using these notions, we can argue straightforwardly that EM is expected to have a significant role in achieving QAs. Specifically, that EM is likely to be the first error reduction method for useful finite QAs, before EC; that the first such QAs are expected to be achieved using EM in the very near future; and that EM is expected to maintain its important role in quantum computation even when EC will be routinely used - for as long as high-quality qubits remain a scarce resource. |
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| spellingShingle | On the Importance of Error Mitigation for Quantum Computation Aharonov, Dorit Alberton, Ori Arad, Itai Atia, Yosi Bairey, Eyal Brakerski, Zvika Cohen, Itsik Golan, Omri Gurwich, Ilya Kenneth, Oded Leviatan, Eyal Lindner, Netanel H. Melcer, Ron Aharon Meyer, Adiel Schul, Gili Shutman, Maor Quantum Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons Computational Complexity Quantum error mitigation (EM) is a family of hybrid quantum-classical methods for eliminating or reducing the effect of noise and decoherence on quantum algorithms run on quantum hardware, without applying quantum error correction (EC). While EM has many benefits compared to EC, specifically that it requires no (or little) qubit overhead, this benefit comes with a painful price: EM seems to necessitate an overhead in quantum run time which grows as a (mild) exponent. Accordingly, recent results show that EM alone cannot enable exponential quantum advantages (QAs), for an average variant of the expectation value estimation problem. These works raised concerns regarding the role of EM in the road map towards QAs. We aim to demystify the discussion and provide a clear picture of the role of EM in achieving QAs, both in the near and long term. We first propose a clear distinction between finite QA and asymptotic QA, which is crucial to the understanding of the question, and present the notion of circuit volume boost, which we claim is an adequate way to quantify the benefits of EM. Using these notions, we can argue straightforwardly that EM is expected to have a significant role in achieving QAs. Specifically, that EM is likely to be the first error reduction method for useful finite QAs, before EC; that the first such QAs are expected to be achieved using EM in the very near future; and that EM is expected to maintain its important role in quantum computation even when EC will be routinely used - for as long as high-quality qubits remain a scarce resource. |
| title | On the Importance of Error Mitigation for Quantum Computation |
| topic | Quantum Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons Computational Complexity |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17243 |