A new class of efficient randomized benchmarking protocols

Journal Article (2019)
Author(s)

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

Xiao Xue (Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft, TU Delft - QCD/Vandersypen Lab, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre)

Lieven M.K. Vandersypen (TU Delft - QN/Vandersypen Lab, TU Delft - QCD/Vandersypen Lab, Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre)

S. Wehner (TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre, TU Delft - Quantum Internet Division, TU Delft - Quantum Information and Software)

Research Group
QCD/Vandersypen Lab
Copyright
© 2019 J. Helsen, X. Xue, L.M.K. Vandersypen, S.D.C. Wehner
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-019-0182-7
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Publication Year
2019
Language
English
Copyright
© 2019 J. Helsen, X. Xue, L.M.K. Vandersypen, S.D.C. Wehner
Research Group
QCD/Vandersypen Lab
Issue number
1
Volume number
5
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Abstract

Randomized benchmarking is a technique for estimating the average fidelity of a set of quantum gates. However, if this gateset is not the multi-qubit Clifford group, robustly extracting the average fidelity is difficult. Here, we propose a new method based on representation theory that has little experimental overhead and robustly extracts the average fidelity for a broad class of gatesets. We apply our method to a multi-qubit gateset that includes the T-gate, and propose a new interleaved benchmarking protocol that extracts the average fidelity of a two-qubit Clifford gate using only single-qubit Clifford gates as reference.