Use Alibaba Cloud Quantum Development Platform to Simulate Quantum Error Correction Performance

Although significant progresses have been made in the direction of simulating large-scale quantum circuits in the past few years, simulating the behavior of a small quantum chip accurately to aid the system design is still challenging. In this talk, we report our result on simulating a distance-3 logical qubit encoded in the 17-qubit surface code using experimental noise parameters for transmon qubits in a planar circuit QED architecture. By using Alibaba Cloud Quantum Development Platform, we are able to evaluate the quantum error correction performance with different noise parameters and code implementations. Our simulation also features crosstalk induced by ZZ-interactions, which has never done before due to high computation cost.