Quantum computers, if fully realized, promise to be a revolutionary technology. As a result,
quantum computing has become one of the hottest areas of research in the last few years …

Quantum computers are poised to radically outperform their classical counterparts by
manipulating coherent quantum systems. A realistic quantum computer will experience …

Experimental implementation of the surface code will be a significant milestone for quantum
computing. We develop a circuit and a decoder targeted for near-term implementation of a …

Quantum gate set tomography (GST) has emerged as a promising method for the full
characterization of quantum logic gates. In contrast to quantum process tomography (QPT) …

Contemporary methods for benchmarking noisy quantum processors typically measure
average error rates or process infidelities. However, thresholds for fault-tolerant quantum …

Remarkable experimental advances in quantum computing are exemplified by recent
announcements of impressive average gate fidelities exceeding 99.9% for single-qubit …

This book targets computer scientists and engineers who are familiar with concepts in
classical computer systems but are curious to learn the general architecture of quantum …

Surface codes are building blocks of quantum computing platforms based on 2D arrays of
qubits responsible for detecting and correcting errors. The error suppression achieved by …

We describe a practical experimental protocol for robustly characterizing the error rates of
non-Clifford gates associated with dihedral groups, including small single-qubit rotations …

We explore the feasibility of implementing a small surface code with 9 data qubits and 8
ancilla qubits, commonly referred to as surface-17, using a linear chain of 171 Yb+ ions. Two …