Symmetry Constrained Quantum Error Mitigation for the Schwinger Model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21103v1
• Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:49:11 GMT
• Title: Symmetry Constrained Quantum Error Mitigation for the Schwinger Model
• Abstract summary: We exploit the parity and fermion-number symmetries of a gauge theory under depolarising noise.<n>We investigate symmetry verification under digital quantum simulation.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Quantum error mitigation (QEM) is at the very heart of near-term quantum simulations and lattice gauge theories are no exceptions, rather their physical symmetries provide natural consistency checks on noise quantum states. In this work, we exploit the parity and fermion-number symmetries of a gauge theory, the (1+1)-dimensional Schwinger model, under depolarising noise and investigate symmetry verification under digital quantum simulation. We investigate two set-ups - symmetry- sector post-selection in adiabatic state preparation followed by real-time measurements of the chiral condensate and symmetry verification within a variational quantum eigensolver (VQE). In the first case, post-selection reduces the bias in the chiral condensate consistently removing up to 60% of the quantum noise induced error in our system. Motivated by the observed regularity of the residual bias (in the low-noise regime), we further introduce a global-noise calibration obtained from classically accessible smaller lattices and implemented on larger lattices recovering noiseless chiral condensate values within statistical uncertainty. However, in VQE, symmetry verification does not seem to generally improve the optimised parameters or the fidelity of the prepared states, although it reduces the bias in the estimated ground-state energy. This demonstates that improving a noisy cost-function estimator in variational algorithms does not necessarily improve the outcome of the algorithm. Our results show the strength of symmetry verification in different approaches while establishing that its usefulness critically depends on where it is applied in the computational workflow, and provide practical guidance for symmetry-assisted quantum error mitigation in quantum simulations of lattice gauge theories.

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