Witnessing entanglement in trapped-ion quantum error correction under realistic noise

Quantum error correction (QEC) exploits redundancy by encoding logical information into multiple physical qubits. In current implementations of QEC, sequences of nonperfect two-qubit entangling gates are used to codify the information redundantly into multipartite entangled states. Also, to extract...

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Autores: Rodriguez-Blanco, A., Shahandeh, F., Bermudez, A.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/388314
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/388314
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Palabra clave:Error correction
Quantum entanglement
Qubits
'current
Encodings
Entangled state
Error modeling
Error syndrome
Physical qubits
Quantum error corrections
Trapped ion
Two-qubit
Two-qubit gates
Trapped ions
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Sumario:Quantum error correction (QEC) exploits redundancy by encoding logical information into multiple physical qubits. In current implementations of QEC, sequences of nonperfect two-qubit entangling gates are used to codify the information redundantly into multipartite entangled states. Also, to extract the error syndrome, a series of two-qubit gates are used to build parity-check readout circuits. In the case of noisy gates, both steps cannot be performed perfectly, and an error model needs to be provided to assess the performance of QEC. We present a detailed microscopic error model to estimate the average gate infidelity of two-qubit light-shift gates used in trapped-ion platforms. We analytically derive leading-error contributions in terms of microscopic parameters and present effective error models that connect the error rates typically used in phenomenological accounts to the microscopic gate infidelities hereby derived. We then apply this realistic error model to quantify the multipartite entanglement generated by circuits that act as QEC building blocks. We do so by using entanglement witnesses, complementing in this way the recent studies in Ref. [Phys. Rev. X 12, 011032 (2022)2160-330810.1103/PhysRevX.12.011032; PRX Quantum 2, 020304 (2021)2691-339910.1103/PRXQuantum.2.020304] by exploring the effects of a more realistic microscopic noise. © 2024 American Physical Society.