Dynamical quantum maps for single-qubit gates under universal non-Markovian noise
Noise is both ubiquitous and generally deleterious in settings where precision is required. This is especially true in the quantum technology sector where system utility typically decays rapidly under its influence. Understanding the noise in quantum devices is thus a prerequisite for efficient stra...
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| author | J. M. Sánchez Velázquez A. Steiner R. Freund M. Guevara-Bertsch Ch. D. Marciniak T. Monz A. Bermudez |
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| description | Noise is both ubiquitous and generally deleterious in settings where precision is required. This is especially true in the quantum technology sector where system utility typically decays rapidly under its influence. Understanding the noise in quantum devices is thus a prerequisite for efficient strategies to mitigate or even eliminate its harmful effects. However, this requires resources that are often prohibitive, such that the typically used noise models rely on simplifications that sometimes depart from experimental reality. Here we derive a compact microscopic error model for single-qubit gates that only requires a single experimental input—the noise power spectral density. Our model goes beyond standard depolarizing or Pauli-twirled noise models, explicitly including non-Clifford and non-Markovian contributions to the dynamical error map. We gauge our predictions for experimentally relevant metrics against established characterization techniques run on a trapped-ion quantum computer. In particular, we find that experimental estimates of average gate errors measured through randomized benchmarking and reconstructed via quantum process tomography are tightly lower-bounded by our analytical estimates, while the depolarizing model overestimates the gate error. Our noise modeling including non-Markovian contributions can be readily applied to established frameworks such as dynamical decoupling and dynamically corrected gates, or to provide more realistic thresholds for quantum error correction. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-32511b66ef5d4913a5845752b16118cc2025-01-03T15:07:21ZengAmerican Physical SocietyPhysical Review Research2643-15642025-01-017101300810.1103/PhysRevResearch.7.013008Dynamical quantum maps for single-qubit gates under universal non-Markovian noiseJ. M. Sánchez VelázquezA. SteinerR. FreundM. Guevara-BertschCh. D. MarciniakT. MonzA. BermudezNoise is both ubiquitous and generally deleterious in settings where precision is required. This is especially true in the quantum technology sector where system utility typically decays rapidly under its influence. Understanding the noise in quantum devices is thus a prerequisite for efficient strategies to mitigate or even eliminate its harmful effects. However, this requires resources that are often prohibitive, such that the typically used noise models rely on simplifications that sometimes depart from experimental reality. Here we derive a compact microscopic error model for single-qubit gates that only requires a single experimental input—the noise power spectral density. Our model goes beyond standard depolarizing or Pauli-twirled noise models, explicitly including non-Clifford and non-Markovian contributions to the dynamical error map. We gauge our predictions for experimentally relevant metrics against established characterization techniques run on a trapped-ion quantum computer. In particular, we find that experimental estimates of average gate errors measured through randomized benchmarking and reconstructed via quantum process tomography are tightly lower-bounded by our analytical estimates, while the depolarizing model overestimates the gate error. Our noise modeling including non-Markovian contributions can be readily applied to established frameworks such as dynamical decoupling and dynamically corrected gates, or to provide more realistic thresholds for quantum error correction.http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.7.013008 |
| spellingShingle | J. M. Sánchez Velázquez A. Steiner R. Freund M. Guevara-Bertsch Ch. D. Marciniak T. Monz A. Bermudez Dynamical quantum maps for single-qubit gates under universal non-Markovian noise Physical Review Research |
| title | Dynamical quantum maps for single-qubit gates under universal non-Markovian noise |
| title_full | Dynamical quantum maps for single-qubit gates under universal non-Markovian noise |
| title_fullStr | Dynamical quantum maps for single-qubit gates under universal non-Markovian noise |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dynamical quantum maps for single-qubit gates under universal non-Markovian noise |
| title_short | Dynamical quantum maps for single-qubit gates under universal non-Markovian noise |
| title_sort | dynamical quantum maps for single qubit gates under universal non markovian noise |
| url | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.7.013008 |
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