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Main Authors: Brillant, Antoine, Rajmohan, Rohan N, Groszkowski, Peter, Seif, Alireza, Koch, Jens, Clerk, Aashish
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12054
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author Brillant, Antoine
Rajmohan, Rohan N
Groszkowski, Peter
Seif, Alireza
Koch, Jens
Clerk, Aashish
author_facet Brillant, Antoine
Rajmohan, Rohan N
Groszkowski, Peter
Seif, Alireza
Koch, Jens
Clerk, Aashish
contents Randomized compiling (RC) is an established tool to tailor arbitrary quantum noise channels into Pauli errors. The effect of both spatial and temporal noise correlations in randomly compiled circuits, however, is not fully understood. Here, we show that for a broad class of correlated Gaussian noise, RC reduces both the strength and temporal range of correlations. For Clifford circuits, we derive a simple analytical expression for the circuit fidelity of randomly compiled circuits. Surprisingly, we show that this fidelity is always increased by the presence of correlations, suggesting that correlations are a resource in randomly compiled circuits. To leading order in system-bath coupling, we also show that RC suppresses the quantum component of bath correlations, implying that one can safely treat weak noise as being classical. Finally, through extensive numerical simulations, we show that our results remain valid for many relevant non-Clifford circuits. These results clarify how RC mitigates memory effects and enhances circuit robustness.
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spellingShingle Noise Correlations as a Resource in Pauli-Twirled Circuits
Brillant, Antoine
Rajmohan, Rohan N
Groszkowski, Peter
Seif, Alireza
Koch, Jens
Clerk, Aashish
Quantum Physics
Randomized compiling (RC) is an established tool to tailor arbitrary quantum noise channels into Pauli errors. The effect of both spatial and temporal noise correlations in randomly compiled circuits, however, is not fully understood. Here, we show that for a broad class of correlated Gaussian noise, RC reduces both the strength and temporal range of correlations. For Clifford circuits, we derive a simple analytical expression for the circuit fidelity of randomly compiled circuits. Surprisingly, we show that this fidelity is always increased by the presence of correlations, suggesting that correlations are a resource in randomly compiled circuits. To leading order in system-bath coupling, we also show that RC suppresses the quantum component of bath correlations, implying that one can safely treat weak noise as being classical. Finally, through extensive numerical simulations, we show that our results remain valid for many relevant non-Clifford circuits. These results clarify how RC mitigates memory effects and enhances circuit robustness.
title Noise Correlations as a Resource in Pauli-Twirled Circuits
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12054