2017/02/13 by Combes, Joshua, Granade, Christopher, Ferrie, Christopher +1 · 8 citations
#FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1702.03688
Extrapolating physical error rates to logical error rates requires many assumptions and thus can radically under- or overestimate the performance of an error correction implementation. We introduce logical randomized benchmarking, a characterization procedure that directly assesses the performance of a quantum error correction implementation at the logical level, and is motivated by a reduction to the well-studied case of physical randomized benchmarking. We show that our method reliably reports logical performance and can estimate the average probability of correctable and uncorrectable errors for a given code and physical channel.