Categorizing Readout Error Correlations on Near Term Quantum Computers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04607v1
• Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2021 21:19:46 GMT
• Title: Categorizing Readout Error Correlations on Near Term Quantum Computers
• Authors: Benjamin Nachman and Michael R. Geller
• Abstract summary: Readout errors are a significant source of noise for near term quantum computers. Recent proposals to use sub-exponential approximations rely on small and/or short-ranged error correlations. We introduce and demonstrate a methodology to categorize and quantify multiqubit readout error correlations.
• Score: 2.0813318162800707
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Readout errors are a significant source of noise for near term quantum computers. A variety of methods have been proposed to mitigate these errors using classical post processing. For a system with $n$ qubits, the entire readout error profile is specified by a $2^n\times 2^n$ matrix. Recent proposals to use sub-exponential approximations rely on small and/or short-ranged error correlations. In this paper, we introduce and demonstrate a methodology to categorize and quantify multiqubit readout error correlations. Two distinct types of error correlations are considered: sensitivity of the measurement of a given qubit to the state of nearby "spectator" qubits, and measurement operator covariances. We deploy this methodology on IBMQ quantum computers, finding that error correlations are indeed small compared to the single-qubit readout errors on IBMQ Melbourne (15 qubits) and IBMQ Manhattan (65 qubits), but that correlations on IBMQ Melbourne are long-ranged and do not decay with inter-qubit distance.

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