Open AccessImproving readout in quantum simulations with repetition codes
Author(s) -
Jakob M. Guenther,
Francesco Tacchino,
James R. Wootton,
Ivano Tavernelli,
Panagiotis Kl. Barkoutsos
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
quantum science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2058-9565
DOI - 10.1088/2058-9565/ac3386
Subject(s) - ibm , computer science , quantum computer , repetition (rhetorical device) , quantum , scalability , noise (video) , computer engineering , error detection and correction , code (set theory) , ising model , algorithm , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , optics , linguistics , philosophy , set (abstract data type) , database , image (mathematics) , programming language
Near term quantum computers suffer from the presence of different noise sources. In order to mitigate for this effect and acquire results with significantly better accuracy, there is the urge of designing efficient error correction or error mitigation schemes. The cost of such techniques is usually high in terms of resource requirements, either in hardware or at the algorithmic level. In this work, we follow a pragmatic approach and we use repetition codes as scalable schemes with the potential to provide more accurate solutions to problems of interest in quantum chemistry and physics. We investigate different repetition code layouts and we propose a circular repetition scheme with connectivity requirements that are native on IBM Quantum hardware. We showcase our approach in multiple IBM Quantum devices and validate our results using a simplified theoretical noise model. We highlight the effect of using the proposed scheme in an electronic structure variational quantum eigensolver calculation and in the simulation of time evolution for a quantum Ising model.