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Publication
ICCD 2020
Conference paper
Special Session: Noise Characterization and Error Mitigation in Near-Term Quantum Computers
Abstract
A detailed understanding of the noise processes and errors in near-term quantum computers is essential for accurate calibration of gates, and for achieving optimal performance when executing near-term applications such as quantum chemistry, optimization, or machine learning problems. This paper introduces several sources of noise in superconducting qubit based quantum computers such as those deployed by IBM, describes some of the main techniques for characterizing the resulting errors, and for mitigating the effects of certain errors without access to quantum error correction. We demonstrate experimental application of these techniques on an IBM Quantum system using the open source Qiskit software library.