{"title":"Quantum Assertion Scheme for Assuring Qudit Robustness","authors":"Navnil Choudhury;Chao Lu;Kanad Basu","doi":"10.1109/LCA.2024.3483840","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers are impeded by constraints such as limited qubit count and susceptibility to noise, hindering the progression towards fault-tolerant quantum computing for intricate and practical applications. To augment the computational capabilities of quantum computers, research is gravitating towards qudits featuring more than two energy levels. This paper presents the inaugural examination of the repercussions of errors in qudit circuits. Subsequently, we introduce an innovative qudit-based assertion framework aimed at automatically detecting and reporting errors and warnings during the quantum circuit design and compilation process. Our proposed framework, when subjected to evaluation on existing quantum computing platforms, can detect both new and existing bugs with up to 100% coverage of the bugs mentioned in this paper.","PeriodicalId":51248,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Computer Architecture Letters","volume":"23 2","pages":"247-250"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Computer Architecture Letters","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10742470/","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, HARDWARE & ARCHITECTURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers are impeded by constraints such as limited qubit count and susceptibility to noise, hindering the progression towards fault-tolerant quantum computing for intricate and practical applications. To augment the computational capabilities of quantum computers, research is gravitating towards qudits featuring more than two energy levels. This paper presents the inaugural examination of the repercussions of errors in qudit circuits. Subsequently, we introduce an innovative qudit-based assertion framework aimed at automatically detecting and reporting errors and warnings during the quantum circuit design and compilation process. Our proposed framework, when subjected to evaluation on existing quantum computing platforms, can detect both new and existing bugs with up to 100% coverage of the bugs mentioned in this paper.
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