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Resource-efficient fully randomized benchmarking

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Abstract

Randomized benchmarking is a commonly used technique for estimating the average fidelity of quantum logic operations, measuring the decay of probability of returning to a final fiducial state as a function of the length of a sequence of randomly selected gates. Typically, repeated trials of specific pre-computed random gate sequences are used to reduce the memory requirements on control hardware, limiting the randomness of sequences. By generating pseudorandom numbers on the control hardware itself we can construct gate sequences on the fly; only the instantaneous ideal stabilizers are tracked, reducing memory requirements substantially and enabling gate sequences of arbitrary length. The just-in-time sequence generation allows each sequence to be independently random, which enforces the assumption of depolarizing error channels. Sequence lengths are chosen to extract maximum information in an allotted wall time, making the most efficient use of experiment resources.

Presenters

  • Laurent Stephenson

    National Institute of Standards and Tech, National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305, USA and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

Authors

  • Laurent Stephenson

    National Institute of Standards and Tech, National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305, USA and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

  • Alex Kwiatkowski

    University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Hannah M Knaack

    University of Colorado, Boulder, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305, USA and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

  • Alejandra L Collopy

    National Institute of Standards and Tech, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305, USA

  • Emanuel Knill

    National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder

  • Scott Glancy

    National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder

  • Andrew C Wilson

    National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305, USA

  • Dietrich Leibfried

    National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, National Institute of Standards and Tech, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Boulder, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305, USA

  • Daniel H Slichter

    National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80305, USA