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Effects of Dynamical Decoupling and Pulse-Level Optimizations on IBM Quantum Computers

Currently available quantum computers are prone to errors. Circuit optimization and error mitigation methods are needed to design quantum circuits to achieve better fidelity when executed on NISQ hardware. Dynamical decoupling (DD) is generally used to suppress the decoherence error, and different DD strategies have been proposed. Moreover, the circuit fidelity can be improved by […]

A Hardware-Aware Heuristic for the Qubit Mapping Problem in the NISQ Era

September 24, 2020Siyuan Niu; Adrien Suau; Gabriel Staffelbach; Aida Todri-SanialOpen Access, Quantum InformationCalibration, Error analysis, Hardware, Logic gates, Noise measurement, Quantum computing, Topology

Due to several physical limitations in the realization of quantum hardware, today’s quantum computers are qualified as noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) hardware. NISQ hardware is characterized by a small number of qubits (50 to a few hundred) and noisy operations. Moreover, current realizations of superconducting quantum chips do not have the ideal all-to-all connectivity between […]