Spectral quantum tomography

Journal Article (2019)
Author(s)

Jonas Helsen (TU Delft - Quantum Information and Software, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre)

Francesco Battistel (TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre, TU Delft - QCD/Terhal Group)

Barbara M. Terhal (Forschungszentrum Jülich, TU Delft - Quantum Computing, TU Delft - QCD/Terhal Group, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre)

Research Group
QCD/Terhal Group
Copyright
© 2019 J. Helsen, F. Battistel, B.M. Terhal
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-019-0189-0
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Publication Year
2019
Language
English
Copyright
© 2019 J. Helsen, F. Battistel, B.M. Terhal
Research Group
QCD/Terhal Group
Issue number
1
Volume number
5
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Abstract

We introduce spectral quantum tomography, a simple method to extract the eigenvalues of a noisy few-qubit gate, represented by a trace-preserving superoperator, in a SPAM-resistant fashion, using low resources in terms of gate sequence length. The eigenvalues provide detailed gate information, supplementary to known gate-quality measures such as the gate fidelity, and can be used as a gate diagnostic tool. We apply our method to one- and two-qubit gates on two different superconducting systems available in the cloud, namely the QuTech Quantum Infinity and the IBM Quantum Experience. We discuss how cross-talk, leakage and non-Markovian errors affect the eigenvalue data.