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ArticleNature computational science2024

Provable bounds for noise-free expectation values computed from noisy samples.

Samantha V Barron, Daniel J Egger, Elijah Pelofske, Andreas Bärtschi, Stephan Eidenbenz, Matthis Lehmkuehler, Stefan Woerner

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Article in Nature computational science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Samantha V BarronIBM Quantum, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA.
Daniel J EggerIBM Quantum, IBM Research Europe-Zurich, Rueschlikon, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5523-9807
Elijah PelofskeCCS-3 Information Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2673-796X
Andreas BärtschiCCS-3 Information Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9049-0984
Stephan EidenbenzCCS-3 Information Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2628-1854
Matthis LehmkuehlerUniversity of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Stefan WoernerIBM Quantum, IBM Research Europe-Zurich, Rueschlikon, Switzerland. wor@zurich.ibm.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5945-4707

Funding

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Swiss National Science Foundation) SNF grant No.~214919
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantum computing has emerged as a powerful computational paradigm capable of solving problems beyond the reach of classical computers. However, today's quantum computers are noisy, posing challenges to obtaining accurate results. Here, we explore the impact of noise on quantum computing, focusing on the challenges in sampling bit strings from noisy quantum computers and the implications for optimization and machine learning. We formally quantify the sampling overhead to extract good samples from noisy quantum computers and relate it to the layer fidelity, a metric to determine the performance of noisy quantum processors. Further, we show how this allows us to use the conditional value at risk of noisy samples to determine provable bounds on noise-free expectation values. We discuss how to leverage these bounds for different algorithms and demonstrate our findings through experiments on real quantum computers involving up to 127 qubits. The results show strong alignment with theoretical predictions.

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