Benchmarking Quantum Instruments
Darian McLaren, Matthew A. Graydon, Ali Assem Mahmoud, Joel J. Wallman

TL;DR
This paper introduces a benchmarking method for quantum instruments with feed-forward, enabling direct error rate estimation from a single sequence of measurements, simplifying the characterization process for quantum computing components.
Contribution
It presents a novel benchmarking protocol that estimates measurement error rates from a single measurement sequence, differing from traditional methods requiring multiple experiments.
Findings
Error rate can be estimated from a single measurement sequence.
Generalized Pauli fidelities are invariant under randomized compiling.
The method characterizes errors up to a gauge transformation.
Abstract
Quantum measurements with feed-forward are crucial components of fault-tolerant quantum computers. We show how the error rate of such a measurement can be directly estimated by fitting the probability that successive randomly compiled measurements all return the ideal outcome. Unlike conventional randomized benchmarking experiments and alternative measurement characterization protocols, all the data can be obtained using a single sufficiently large number of successive measurements. We also prove that generalized Pauli fidelities are invariant under randomized compiling and can be combined with the error rate to characterize the underlying errors up to a gauge transformation that introduces an ambiguity between errors happening before or after measurements.
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