Demonstrating Noise-adapted Quantum Error Correction With Break-Even Performance

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04564v1
• Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:50:16 GMT
• Title: Demonstrating Noise-adapted Quantum Error Correction With Break-Even Performance
• Authors: Vismay Joshi, Anubhab Rudra, Sourav Dutta, Siddharth Dhomkar, Prabha Mandayam,
• Abstract summary: We develop a noise-adapted 3-qubit quantum error correction scheme for IBM quantum hardware.<n>We show that the scheme can break-even against native amplitude-damping (AD) noise.<n>Our analysis suggests that the performance of our protocol is limited primarily by the measurement readout fidelity.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The promise of quantum computing is closer to reality today than ever before, thanks to rapid progress in the development of quantum hardware. Even as qubit lifetimes and gate fidelities continue to improve, realizing robust, fault-tolerant quantum computers is contingent upon the successful implementation of quantum error correction (QEC). Conventional QEC schemes have rather high resource overheads and low threshold requirements, making them challenging to implement on present day hardware. Here, we use a recently developed noise-adapted 3-qubit QEC scheme to demonstrate break-even performance against native amplitude-damping (AD) noise on IBM quantum hardware. We use variational quantum circuits to construct hardware-efficient encoding and decoding circuits. This scheme is probabilistic due to the non-unitary nature of the recovery operators, which are implemented via the block-encoding technique. We demonstrate logical qubit lifetimes exceeding those of the physical qubits by performing multiple rounds of QEC. To further protect the qubits from dephasing due to crosstalk, we incorporate dynamical decoupling into our noise-adapted QEC scheme in a seamless fashion. To account for the post-selection overhead, we define a measure of gain, that allows for faithful performance benchmarking of the protocol. Our analysis suggests that the performance of our protocol is limited primarily by the measurement readout fidelity, and is bound to improve with successive generations of quantum processors.

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