Steane Code Analysis by Randomized Benchmarking

  • Anderson de Souza Barbosa UFRJ
  • Franklin de Lima Marquezino UFRJ
  • Renato Portugal LNCC

Abstract


Randomized Benchmarking (RB) is a protocol that allows to partially characterize the quality of the implementation of a set of quantum gates. In this work, we use the RB protocol to analyze the performance of the Steane code, an important quantum error correction code, and we present a scenario in which its use is advantageous when compared to the situation in which no quantum code is used.

Keywords: quantum error correction, Steane code, randomized benchmarking

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Published
2022-07-31
BARBOSA, Anderson de Souza; MARQUEZINO, Franklin de Lima; PORTUGAL, Renato. Steane Code Analysis by Randomized Benchmarking. In: PROCEEDINGS OF THE THEORY OF COMPUTATION MEETING (ETC), 7. , 2022, Niterói. Anais [...]. Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2022 . p. 93-96. ISSN 2595-6116. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/etc.2022.223133.