Quantum-Error-Mitigation Circuit Groups for Noisy Quantum Metrology

Abstract: Quantum technologies work by utilizing properties inherent in quantum systems such as quantum coherence and quantum entanglement and are expected to be superior to classical counterparts for solving certain problems in science and engineering. The quantum technologies are, however, fragile against an interaction with an environment (decoherence) and in order to utilize them with high accuracy we need to develop error mitigation techniques which reduce decoherence effects. In this work, we analyze quantum error mitigation (QEM) protocol for quantum metrology in the presence of quantum noise. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our QEM protocol by analyzing three types of quantum Fisher information (QFI), ideal (error-free) QFI, noisy (erroneous) QFI, and quantum-error-mitigated QFI, and show both analytically and numerically that the scaling behaviors of quantum-error-mitigated QFI with respect to the number of probes become restored to the those exhibited in the ideal quantum metrology. Our QEM protocol is constructed by an ensemble of quantum circuits, namely QEM circuit groups, and has advantages such that it can be applied to noisy quantum metrology for any type of initial state as well as any type of the probe-system Hamiltonian, and it can be physically implemented in any type of quantum device. Furthermore, the quantum-error-mitigated QFI become approximately equal to the ideal QFI for almost any values of physical quantities to be sensed. Our protocol enables us to use quantum entanglement as a resource to perform high-sensitive quantum metrology even under the influence of quantum noise.