CrossBench: Generalized Crosstalk Benchmark Generation for Quantum Computers

TL;DR

CrossBench is a customizable benchmarking system that generates crosstalk metrics for quantum computers with arbitrary topologies, aiding error mitigation and security efforts.

Contribution

It introduces a graph labeling algorithm to generate crosstalk benchmarks applicable to various quantum device topologies and gate sets.

Findings

CrossBench effectively identifies gates with significant crosstalk.

Benchmarks generated correlate with observed error rates.

System works across multiple IBM quantum devices.

Abstract

As quantum computers continue to increase in size and topological complexity, benchmarking crosstalk becomes more complex and resource-intensive. This limits the ability to obtain relevant crosstalk metrics for applications such as error mitigation, quantum computer security, and circuit transpilation. There applications benefit from accessible metrics on how each gate contributes to crosstalk. However, crosstalk metrics are rarely provided by quantum computer providers and can be expensive to obtain on modern large NISQ devices. In this work, we propose CrossBench, a customizable system that generates crosstalk benchmarks for finitely large NISQ devices with arbitrary topologies. CrossBench uses a custom graph labeling algorithm to generate crosstalk benchmarks for a given quantum topology and gate set. These benchmarks can be used to estimate the average contribution of each gate's crosstalk to qubit error rates. We evaluate the effectiveness of CrossBench by generating and running benchmarks on multiple IBM quantum computers with different topologies. Our results show that CrossBench can identify gates that introduce significant crosstalk across all tested devices, with strong statistical significance (p < 0.05). These promising results show that CrossBench can give simple and accessible crosstalk benchmarks for modern NISQ systems.