Tailored Error Mitigation for Single-Qubit Magnetometry

TL;DR

This paper introduces a tailored error mitigation technique for single-qubit quantum sensors, improving their accuracy by adapting to environmental noise and achieving optimal sensitivity in magnetometry.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel, adaptive error mitigation method that effectively reverses noise effects in quantum sensors, enhancing their precision in practical applications.

Findings

Achieves optimal sensitivity in noisy single-NV-center magnetometry.

Automatically adapts to the complexity of dissipative evolution.

Demonstrates resilience of the method under environmental noise.

Abstract

Quantum sensing is an emerging field with the potential to outperform classical methods in both precision and spatial resolution. However, the sensitivity of the underlying quantum platform also makes the sensors highly susceptible to their environmental noise. To address this issue, techniques from the field of quantum error mitigation use information about the noise to improve measurement results. We present a novel mitigation technique for quantum sensors to efficiently reverse the effects of any noise that can be described by a completely positive trace preserving map. The method leverages the knowledge acquired by a pre-characterization step of the device to automatically adapt to the complexity of the dissipative evolution and to indicate optimal sensing times $\tau$ to achieve the most accurate results. We demonstrate that our method reaches the best achievable sensitivity in noisy single-NV-center magnetometry. This work marks a further step toward more resilient quantum sensors with the smallest scale of resolution.