The Exponential Deviation Induced by Quantum Readout Error Mitigation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08687v1
• Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:00:05 GMT
• Title: The Exponential Deviation Induced by Quantum Readout Error Mitigation
• Authors: Yibin Guo, Yi Fan, Pei Liu, Shoukuan Zhao, Yirong Jin, Xiaoxia Cai, Xiongzhi Zeng, Zhenyu Li, Wengang Zhang, Hai-Feng Yu,
• Abstract summary: We show that the conventional measurement error mitigation methods will introduce systematic errors that grow exponentially with the increase of qubit number.<n>We demonstrated that the fidelity of large-scale entangled states will be significantly overestimated at presence of the state preparation error.<n>We also showed that the outcome results of prevalent quantum algorithms such as variational quantum eigensolver and time evolution methods severe deviate from the ideal results as the system scale grows.
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• Abstract: The error mitigation techniques are indispensable for the noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices to obtain the experimental data with reasonable precision. The method based on taking the inverse of the measurement error matrix is widely used in quantum computing experiment to mitigate readout errors. In principle, the state preparation and measurement (SPAM) error are fundamentally hard to distinguish. This implies that while readout calibration matrices mitigate readout errors, they simultaneously introduce extra initialization errors to the experimental data. In this work, we show that the conventional measurement error mitigation methods will introduce systematic errors that grow exponentially with the increase of qubit number. To illustrate their specific impact, we take large-scale entangled state preparation and measurement as examples, which are usually used for characterizing the performance of quantum processors. We demonstrated that the fidelity of large-scale entangled states will be significantly overestimated at presence of the state preparation error. Besides, we also showed that the outcome results of prevalent quantum algorithms such as variational quantum eigensolver and time evolution methods severe deviate from the ideal results as the system scale grows. These evidences indicate that state preparation error should be benchmarked and treated more carefully than it is recently. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the readout error mitigation technique at a given qubit scale, we have calculated an upper bound of the acceptable state preparation error rate.

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