Improving VQE Parameter Quality on Noisy Quantum Processors with Cost-Effective Readout Error Mitigation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15072v1
• Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:14:22 GMT
• Title: Improving VQE Parameter Quality on Noisy Quantum Processors with Cost-Effective Readout Error Mitigation
• Authors: Nacer Eddine Belaloui, Abdellah Tounsi, Abdelmouheymen Rabah Khamadja, Hamza Benkadour, Mohamed Messaoud Louamri, Achour Benslama, Mohamed Taha Rouabah,
• Abstract summary: This study examines the impact of error mitigation strategies on VQE performance.<n>We show that, for small molecular systems, an older-generation 5-qubit quantum processing unit (IBMQ Belem) achieves ground-state energy estimations an order of magnitude more accurate than those obtained from a more advanced 156-qubit device (IBM Fez) without error mitigation.<n>Our results point to the critical role of error mitigation in extending the utility of noisy quantum hardware for molecular simulations.
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• Abstract: The inherent noise in current Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices presents a major obstacle to the accurate implementation of quantum algorithms such as the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) for quantum chemistry applications. This study examines the impact of error mitigation strategies on VQE performance. We show that, for small molecular systems, an older-generation 5-qubit quantum processing unit (IBMQ Belem), when combined with optimized Twirled Readout Error Extinction (T-REx), achieves ground-state energy estimations an order of magnitude more accurate than those obtained from a more advanced 156-qubit device (IBM Fez) without error mitigation. Our findings demonstrate that T-REx, a computationally inexpensive error mitigation technique, substantially improves VQE accuracy not only in energy estimation, but more importantly in optimizing the variational parameters that characterize the molecular ground state. Consequently, state-vector simulated energies suggest that the accuracy of the optimized variational parameters provides a more reliable benchmark of VQE performance than quantum hardware energy estimates alone. Our results point to the critical role of error mitigation in extending the utility of noisy quantum hardware for molecular simulations.

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