Coherently mitigating boson samplers with stochastic errors

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00102v1
• Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:16:22 GMT
• Title: Coherently mitigating boson samplers with stochastic errors
• Authors: Deepesh Singh, Ryan J. Marshman, Nathan Walk, Jens Eisert, Timothy C. Ralph, Austin P. Lund,
• Abstract summary: Quantum devices such as boson samplers are susceptible to various errors, including fabrication imperfections.<n>We propose a unitary averaging protocol which employs multiple boson samplers to generate a distribution that approximates the ideal boson sampler distribution.<n>This results in a rigorous upper bound on the trace distance between the output probability induced by invertible vacuum-heralded networks.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Sampling experiments provide a viable route to show quantum advantages of quantum devices over classical computers in well-defined computational tasks. However, quantum devices such as boson samplers are susceptible to various errors, including stochastic errors due to fabrication imperfections. These cause the implemented unitary operations to deviate randomly from their intended targets, following distributions with finite variance. Whilst full-scale quantum error correction remains challenging in the near term, quantum error mitigation schemes have been devised to estimate expectation values, but it is unclear how these schemes would work for sampling experiments. In this work, we demonstrate that, given access to multiple stochastic unitaries, it is possible to mitigate the effect of these errors in sampling experiments. We adopt the unitary averaging protocol which employs multiple stochastic boson samplers to generate a distribution that approximates the ideal boson sampler distribution as the number of samplers increases. We derive a rigorous upper bound on the trace distance between the output probability distributions induced by invertible vacuum-heralded networks based on the Schur-Weyl duality. This result can be seen concretely as an error mitigation scheme in sampling experiments against stochastic errors. On a broader level, it suggests a path towards understanding error mitigation for sampling experiments and developing analysis tools for photonic circuits incorporating measurements and feed-forward. We further provide other applications of unitary averaging, including its use in implementing the linear combination of unitaries and benchmarking fabrication repeatability in linear optics.

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