Error Mitigation in Bosonic Systems via Virtual Distillation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.04914v1
• Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:42:25 GMT
• Title: Error Mitigation in Bosonic Systems via Virtual Distillation
• Abstract summary: We establish a framework for virtual distillation in bosonic quantum information processing and continuous-variable quantum computing.<n>We show how to recover noise-mitigated expectation values of number operators, phase-shift operators, and arbitrary quadratures from multi-copy measurements.<n>Our results extend virtual distillation beyond its original setting and provide a practical route toward error-mitigated measurements in bosonic quantum processors.
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• Abstract: Virtual distillation is a promising error-mitigation technique that exploits multiple copies of a noisy quantum state to estimate observables as if measured on a purified state. Although originally introduced in the context of bosonic many-body systems under the name of virtual cooling, its development and applications have largely focused on qubit-based quantum computation. Here, we establish a framework for virtual distillation in bosonic quantum information processing and continuous-variable quantum computing. Building on a diagonalization of cyclic shift operators implemented with passive linear-optical interferometers, we derive experimentally accessible protocols for estimating virtually distilled expectation values of observables relevant to bosonic architectures. In particular, we show how to recover noise-mitigated expectation values of number operators, phase-shift operators, and arbitrary quadratures from multi-copy measurements. For number operators, we further demonstrate the estimation of virtually distilled correlators of arbitrary order through the characteristic function of the photon-number distribution. We apply the framework to states affected by photon loss and dephasing, two of the dominant noise mechanisms in bosonic quantum computation, and quantify the resulting suppression of noise contributions. Our results extend virtual distillation beyond its original setting and provide a practical route toward error-mitigated measurements in bosonic quantum processors using experimentally available linear-optical resources.

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