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Main Authors: Crupi, Marianna, Cirac, J. Ignacio, Baccari, Flavio
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02030
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author Crupi, Marianna
Cirac, J. Ignacio
Baccari, Flavio
author_facet Crupi, Marianna
Cirac, J. Ignacio
Baccari, Flavio
contents We present a quantum process-tomography protocol based on a low-degree ansatz for the quantum channel, i.e. when it can be expressed as a fixed-degree polynomial in terms of Pauli operators. We demonstrate how to perform tomography of such channels with a logarithmic amount of effort relative to the size of the system, by employing random state preparation and measurements in the Pauli basis. We extend the applicability of the protocol to channels consisting of a layer of quantum gates with a polylogarithmic number of non-Clifford gates, followed by a low-degree noise channel. Rather than inverting the layer of quantum gates on the hardware-which would introduce additional errors-we instead carry out the inversion in classical postprocessing, while adding to the sample complexity a factor at most polynomial in system size. Numerical simulations support our theoretical findings and demonstrate the feasibility of our method.
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spellingShingle Efficient Characterization of Coherent and Correlated Low-Degree Noise in Layers of Gates
Crupi, Marianna
Cirac, J. Ignacio
Baccari, Flavio
Quantum Physics
We present a quantum process-tomography protocol based on a low-degree ansatz for the quantum channel, i.e. when it can be expressed as a fixed-degree polynomial in terms of Pauli operators. We demonstrate how to perform tomography of such channels with a logarithmic amount of effort relative to the size of the system, by employing random state preparation and measurements in the Pauli basis. We extend the applicability of the protocol to channels consisting of a layer of quantum gates with a polylogarithmic number of non-Clifford gates, followed by a low-degree noise channel. Rather than inverting the layer of quantum gates on the hardware-which would introduce additional errors-we instead carry out the inversion in classical postprocessing, while adding to the sample complexity a factor at most polynomial in system size. Numerical simulations support our theoretical findings and demonstrate the feasibility of our method.
title Efficient Characterization of Coherent and Correlated Low-Degree Noise in Layers of Gates
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02030