Learning Mid-circuit Measurement Backaction from Three Repeated Measurements

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00433v1
• Date: Fri, 29 May 2026 23:47:39 GMT
• Title: Learning Mid-circuit Measurement Backaction from Three Repeated Measurements
• Abstract summary: We introduce a self-consistent protocol for learning a single-qubit Z-twirled MCM instrument.<n>The learned instrument improves Pauli-observable prediction by $sim100times$ over a conventional confusion-matrix model.<n>Our protocol provides a compact characterization layer for SPAM error separation, reset optimization, and noise-aware quantum error correction.
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• Abstract: Accurate modeling of mid-circuit measurements (MCMs) is essential for dynamic-circuit operations such as syndrome extraction, measurement-based reset, and the separation of state-preparation and measurement (SPAM) error. Unlike terminal measurement, a noisy MCM both produces a classical outcome and alters the incoming quantum state, thereby influencing subsequent circuit operations. This makes conventional confusion-matrix or fidelity-level characterization insufficient. Here we introduce an efficient, self-consistent protocol for learning a single-qubit Z-twirled MCM instrument, retaining the readout-backaction correlations and excitation-decay asymmetry that are erased in Pauli-error descriptions. Remarkably, readout bit strings from only three repeated MCMs on a maximally mixed input determine all learnable parameters of the reduced instrument, up to a single unidentifiable gauge degree of freedom. Physicality constraints convert this non-identifiability into narrow, gauge-aware error intervals. Implemented on IBM superconducting processors, the learned instrument improves Pauli-observable prediction by ${\sim}100\times$ over a conventional confusion-matrix model and reveals a $T_1$-decay dominated backaction. Our protocol provides a compact characterization layer for SPAM error separation, reset optimization, and noise-aware quantum error correction.

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