Physical Review Research (Oct 2024)

Noise-adapted recovery circuits for quantum error correction

  • Debjyoti Biswas,
  • Gaurav M. Vaidya,
  • Prabha Mandayam

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.043034
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 4
p. 043034

Abstract

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Implementing quantum error correction (QEC) protocols is a challenging task in today's era of noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. We present quantum circuits for a universal, noise-adapted recovery map, often referred to as the Petz map, which is known to achieve close-to-optimal fidelity for arbitrary codes and noise channels. While two of our circuit constructions draw upon algebraic techniques such as isometric extension and block encoding, the third approach breaks down the recovery map into a sequence of two-outcome POVMs. In each of the three cases we improve upon the resource requirements that currently exist in the literature. Apart from Petz recovery circuits, we also present circuits that can directly estimate the fidelity between the encoded state and the recovered state. As a concrete example of our circuit constructions, we implement Petz recovery circuits corresponding to a four-qubit code that is tailor-made to correct for amplitude-damping noise. The efficacy of our noise-adapted recovery circuits is then demonstrated through ideal and noisy simulations on the IBM QasmSimulator.