Abstract

We introduce Mitiq, a Python package for error mitigation on noisy quantum computers. Error mitigation techniques can reduce the impact of noise on near-term quantum computers with minimal overhead in quantum resources by relying on a mixture of quantum sampling and classical post-processing techniques. Mitiq is an extensible toolkit of different error mitigation methods, including zero-noise extrapolation, probabilistic error cancellation, and Clifford data regression. The library is designed to be compatible with generic backends and interfaces with different quantum software frameworks.

Citation

LaRose, Ryan, et al. 2022. “Mitiq: A Software Package for Error Mitigation on Noisy Quantum Computers.” Quantum 6: 774.

@article{LaRose2022,
author = {Ryan LaRose and Andrea Mari and Sarah Kaiser and Peter J. Karalekas and Andre A. Alves and Piotr Czarnik and Mohamed El Mandouh and Max H. Gordon and Yousef Hindy and Aaron Robertson and Purva Thakre and Misty Wahl and Danny Samuel and Rahul Mistri and Maxime Tremblay and Nick Gardner and Nathaniel T. Stemen and Nathan Shammah and William J. Zeng},
year = {2022},
title = {Mitiq: A Software Package for Error Mitigation on Noisy Quantum Computers},
journal = {Quantum},
volume = {6},
pages = {774},
doi = {10.22331/q-2022-08-11-774},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04417}}