{"title":"Mitigating errors in analog quantum simulation by Hamiltonian reshaping or Hamiltonian rescaling","authors":"Rui-Cheng Guo, Yanwu Gu, Dong E. Liu","doi":"10.1038/s41534-025-00969-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-025-00969-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Simulating quantum many-body systems is crucial for advancing physics but poses substantial challenges for classical computers. Quantum simulations overcome these limitations, with analog simulators offering unique advantages over digital methods, such as lower systematic errors and reduced circuit depth, making them efficient for studying complex quantum phenomena. However, unlike their digital counterparts, analog quantum simulations face significant limitations due to the absence of effective error mitigation techniques. This work introduces two novel error mitigation strategies—Hamiltonian reshaping and Hamiltonian rescaling—in analog quantum simulation for tasks like eigen-energy evaluation. Hamiltonian reshaping uses random unitary transformations to generate new Hamiltonians with identical eigenvalues but varied eigenstates, allowing error reduction through averaging. Hamiltonian rescaling mitigates errors by comparing eigenvalue estimates from energy-scaled Hamiltonians. Numerical calculations validate both methods, demonstrating their significant practical effectiveness in enhancing the accuracy and reliability of analog quantum simulators.</p>","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143049901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Codes for entanglement-assisted classical communication","authors":"Tushita Prasad, Markus Grassl","doi":"10.1038/s41534-024-00954-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-024-00954-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Entanglement-assisted classical communication (EACC) aims to enhance communication systems using entanglement as an additional resource. However, there is a scarcity of explicit protocols designed for finite transmission scenarios, which presents a challenge for real-world implementation. In response, we introduce a new EACC scheme capable of correcting a fixed number of erasures/errors. It can be adjusted to the available amount of entanglement and sends classical information over a quantum channel. We establish a general framework to accomplish such a task by reducing it to a classical problem. Comparing with specific bounds, we identify optimal parameter ranges. The scheme requires only the implementation of super-dense coding which has been demonstrated successfully in experiments. Furthermore, our results show that an adaptable entanglement use confers a communication advantage. Overall, our work sheds light on how entanglement can elevate various finite-length communication protocols, opening new avenues for exploration in the field.</p>","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143049870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Faster-than-Clifford simulations of entanglement purification circuits and their full-stack optimization","authors":"Vaishnavi L. Addala, Shu Ge, Stefan Krastanov","doi":"10.1038/s41534-024-00948-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-024-00948-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Generating quantum entanglement is plagued by decoherence. Distillation and error-correction are employed against such noise, but designing a good distillation circuit, especially on today’s imperfect hardware, is challenging. We develop a simulation algorithm for distillation circuits with per-gate complexity of <span>({mathcal{O}}(1))</span>, drastically faster than <span>({mathcal{O}}(N))</span> Clifford simulators or <span>({mathcal{O}}({2}^{N}))</span> wavefunction simulators over <i>N</i> qubits. This simulator made it possible to optimize distillation circuits much larger than previously feasible. We design distillation circuits from <i>n</i> raw Bell pairs to <i>k</i> purified pairs and study the use of these circuits in the teleportation of logical qubits. The resulting purification circuits are the best-known for finite-size noisy hardware and can be fine-tuned for specific error-models. Furthermore, we design purification circuits that shape the correlations of errors in the purified pairs such that the performance of potential error-correcting codes is greatly improved.</p>","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143020772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anthony P. McFadden, Aranya Goswami, Tongyu Zhao, Teun van Schijndel, Trevyn F. Q. Larson, Sudhir Sahu, Stephen Gill, Florent Lecocq, Raymond Simmonds, Chris Palmstrøm
{"title":"Fabrication and characterization of low-loss Al/Si/Al parallel plate capacitors for superconducting quantum information applications","authors":"Anthony P. McFadden, Aranya Goswami, Tongyu Zhao, Teun van Schijndel, Trevyn F. Q. Larson, Sudhir Sahu, Stephen Gill, Florent Lecocq, Raymond Simmonds, Chris Palmstrøm","doi":"10.1038/s41534-025-00967-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-025-00967-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Increasing the density of superconducting circuits requires compact components, however, superconductor-based capacitors typically perform worse as dimensions are reduced due to loss at surfaces and interfaces. Here, parallel plate capacitors composed of aluminum-contacted, crystalline silicon fins are shown to be a promising technology for use in superconducting circuits by evaluating the performance of lumped element resonators and transmon qubits. High aspect ratio Si-fin capacitors having widths below 300 nm with an approximate total height of 3 <i>μ</i>m are fabricated using anisotropic wet etching of Si(110) substrates followed by aluminum metallization. The single-crystal Si capacitors are incorporated in lumped element resonators and transmons by shunting them with lithographically patterned aluminum inductors and conventional <i>A</i><i>l</i>/<i>A</i><i>l</i><i>O</i><sub><i>x</i></sub>/<i>A</i><i>l</i> Josephson junctions respectively. Microwave characterization of these devices suggests state-of-the-art performance for superconducting parallel plate capacitors with low power internal quality factor of lumped element resonators greater than 500 k and qubit <i>T</i><sub>1</sub> times greater than 25 μs. These results suggest that Si-Fins are a promising technology for applications that require low-loss, compact, superconductor-based capacitors with minimal stray capacitance.</p>","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143020773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brian Rost, Lorenzo Del Re, Nathan Earnest, Alexander F. Kemper, Barbara Jones, James K. Freericks
{"title":"Long-time error-mitigating simulation of open quantum systems on near term quantum computers","authors":"Brian Rost, Lorenzo Del Re, Nathan Earnest, Alexander F. Kemper, Barbara Jones, James K. Freericks","doi":"10.1038/s41534-025-00964-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-025-00964-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study an open quantum system simulation on quantum hardware, which demonstrates robustness to hardware errors even with deep circuits containing up to two thousand entangling gates. We simulate two systems of electrons coupled to an infinite thermal bath: 1) a system of dissipative free electrons in a driving electric field; and 2) the thermalization of two interacting electrons in a single orbital in a magnetic field—the Hubbard atom. These problems are solved using IBM quantum computers, showing no signs of decreasing fidelity at long times. Our results demonstrate that algorithms for simulating open quantum systems are able to far outperform similarly complex non-dissipative algorithms on noisy hardware. Our two examples show promise that the driven-dissipative quantum many-body problem can eventually be solved on quantum computers.</p>","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142990934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dephasing enabled fast charging of quantum batteries","authors":"Rahul Shastri, Chao Jiang, Guo-Hua Xu, B. Prasanna Venkatesh, Gentaro Watanabe","doi":"10.1038/s41534-025-00959-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-025-00959-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We propose and analyze a universal method to obtain fast charging of a quantum battery by a driven charger system using controlled, pure dephasing of the charger. While the battery displays coherent underdamped oscillations of energy for weak charger dephasing, the quantum Zeno freezing of the charger energy at high dephasing suppresses the rate of transfer of energy to the battery. Choosing an optimum dephasing rate between the regimes leads to a fast charging of the battery. We illustrate our results with the charger and battery modeled by either two-level systems or harmonic oscillators. Apart from the fast charging, the dephasing also renders the charging performance more robust to detuning between the charger, drive, and battery frequencies for the two-level systems case.</p>","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142989358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Manwen Liao, Yan Zhu, Giulio Chiribella, Yuxiang Yang
{"title":"Noise-agnostic quantum error mitigation with data augmented neural models","authors":"Manwen Liao, Yan Zhu, Giulio Chiribella, Yuxiang Yang","doi":"10.1038/s41534-025-00960-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-025-00960-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Quantum error mitigation, a data processing technique for recovering the statistics of target processes from their noisy version, is a crucial task for near-term quantum technologies. Most existing methods require prior knowledge of the noise model or the noise parameters. Deep neural networks have the potential to lift this requirement, but current models require training data produced by ideal processes in the absence of noise. Here we build a neural model that achieves quantum error mitigation without any prior knowledge of the noise and without training on noise-free data. To achieve this feature, we introduce a quantum augmentation technique for error mitigation. Our approach applies to quantum circuits and to the dynamics of many-body and continuous-variable quantum systems, accommodating various types of noise models. We demonstrate its effectiveness by testing it both on simulated noisy circuits and on real quantum hardware.</p>","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142989360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Takis Angelides, Pranay Naredi, Arianna Crippa, Karl Jansen, Stefan Kühn, Ivano Tavernelli, Derek S. Wang
{"title":"First-order phase transition of the Schwinger model with a quantum computer","authors":"Takis Angelides, Pranay Naredi, Arianna Crippa, Karl Jansen, Stefan Kühn, Ivano Tavernelli, Derek S. Wang","doi":"10.1038/s41534-024-00950-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-024-00950-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We explore the first-order phase transition in the lattice Schwinger model in the presence of a topological <i>θ</i>-term by means of the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE). Using two different fermion discretizations, Wilson and staggered fermions, we develop parametric ansatz circuits suitable for both discretizations, and compare their performance by simulating classically an ideal VQE optimization in the absence of noise. The states obtained by the classical simulation are then prepared on the IBM’s superconducting quantum hardware. Applying state-of-the art error-mitigation methods, we show that the electric field density and particle number, observables which reveal the phase structure of the model, can be reliably obtained from the quantum hardware. To investigate the minimum system sizes required for a continuum extrapolation, we study the continuum limit using matrix product states, and compare our results to continuum mass perturbation theory. We demonstrate that taking the additive mass renormalization into account is vital for enhancing the precision that can be obtained with smaller system sizes. Furthermore, for the observables we investigate we observe excellent agreement in the continuum limit of both fermion discretizations.</p>","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142989361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Practical security of twin-field quantum key distribution with optical phase-locked loop under wavelength-switching attack","authors":"Qingquan Peng, Jiu-Peng Chen, Tianyi Xing, Dongyang Wang, Yizhi Wang, Yang Liu, Anqi Huang","doi":"10.1038/s41534-025-00963-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-025-00963-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The twin-field class quantum key distribution (TF-class QKD) has experimentally demonstrated the ability to surpass the fundamental rate-distance limit without requiring a quantum repeater, as a revolutional milestone. In TF-class QKD implementation, an optical phase-locked loop (OPLL) structure is commonly employed to generate a reference light with correlated phase, ensuring coherence of optical fields between Alice and Bob. In this configuration, the reference light, typically located in the untrusted station Charlie, solely provides wavelength reference for OPLL and does not participate in quantum-state encoding. However, the reference light may open a door for Eve to enter the source stations that are supposed to be well protected. Here, by identifying vulnerabilities of an acousto-optic modulator (AOM) in the OPLL scheme, we propose and demonstrate a wavelength-switching attack on a TF-class QKD system. This attack involves Eve deliberately manipulating the wavelength of the reference light to increase mean photon number of prepared quantum states, while maintaining stable interference between Alice and Bob as required by TF-class QKD protocols. The maximum observed increase in mean photon number is 8.7%, which has been theoretically proven to compromise the security of a TF-class QKD system. Moreover, we have shown that with well calibration of the modulators, the attack can be eliminated. Through this study, we highlight the importance of system calibration in the practical security in TF-class QKD implementation.</p>","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142989366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Benjamin Harpt, J. Corrigan, Nathan Holman, Piotr Marciniec, D. Rosenberg, D. Yost, R. Das, Rusko Ruskov, Charles Tahan, William D. Oliver, R. McDermott, Mark Friesen, M. A. Eriksson
{"title":"Ultra-dispersive resonator readout of a quantum-dot qubit using longitudinal coupling","authors":"Benjamin Harpt, J. Corrigan, Nathan Holman, Piotr Marciniec, D. Rosenberg, D. Yost, R. Das, Rusko Ruskov, Charles Tahan, William D. Oliver, R. McDermott, Mark Friesen, M. A. Eriksson","doi":"10.1038/s41534-025-00962-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-025-00962-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We perform readout of a quantum-dot hybrid qubit coupled to a superconducting resonator through a parametric, longitudinal interaction mechanism. Our experiments are performed with the qubit and resonator frequencies detuned by ~10 GHz, demonstrating that longitudinal coupling can facilitate semiconductor qubit operation in the ‘ultra-dispersive’ regime of circuit quantum electrodynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142989367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}