Quantum Error Mitigation by Global Randomized Error Cancellation for Adiabatic Evolution in the Schwinger Model

Abstract: We extend the global randomized error cancellation (GREC) method for quantum error mitigation (QEM) in an application to adiabatic evolution of states on a noisy quantum device. We apply the adiabatic GREC method to the evolution of eigenstates in the lattice Schwinger model on a simulated quantum device with custom noise. Our results suggest that the corresponding QEM learned in one parameter regime of the model successfully transfers to a different parameter regime. In particular, our findings indicate that it transfers between different phases of the model. We observe that adiabatic GREC produces a smaller error than zero noise extrapolation (ZNE). Furthermore, in general, adiabatic GREC can be more cost-efficient in terms of the total number of gates used for the simulations. We comment on approaches to further reduce the necessary quantum computational resources. We also outline extensions of the introduced adiabatic GREC QEM method.