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Chin. Phys. B, 2022, Vol. 31(9): 090306    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ac7b1e
Special Issue: TOPICAL REVIEW — Celebrating 30 Years of Chinese Physics B
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An overview of quantum error mitigation formulas

Dayue Qin(秦大粤), Xiaosi Xu(徐晓思), and Ying Li(李颖)
Graduate School of China Academy of Engineering Physics, Beijing 100193, China
Abstract  Minimizing the effect of noise is essential for quantum computers. The conventional method to protect qubits against noise is through quantum error correction. However, for current quantum hardware in the so-called noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, noise presents in these systems and is too high for error correction to be beneficial. Quantum error mitigation is a set of alternative methods for minimizing errors, including error extrapolation, probabilistic error cancellation, measurement error mitigation, subspace expansion, symmetry verification, virtual distillation, etc. The requirement for these methods is usually less demanding than error correction. Quantum error mitigation is a promising way of reducing errors on NISQ quantum computers. This paper gives a comprehensive introduction to quantum error mitigation. The state-of-art error mitigation methods are covered and formulated in a general form, which provides a basis for comparing, combining and optimizing different methods in future work.
Keywords:  quantum error mitigation      quantum computing      quantum error correction      noisy intermediate-scale quantum  
Received:  24 April 2022      Revised:  21 June 2022      Accepted manuscript online:  22 June 2022
PACS:  03.67.Pp (Quantum error correction and other methods for protection against decoherence)  
Fund: This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11875050 and 12088101) and NSAF (Grant No. U1930403).
Corresponding Authors:  Ying Li     E-mail:  yli@gscaep.ac.cn

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Dayue Qin(秦大粤), Xiaosi Xu(徐晓思), and Ying Li(李颖) An overview of quantum error mitigation formulas 2022 Chin. Phys. B 31 090306

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