Our paper “Mitigating coherent errors through a decoherence-resistant variational framework employing stabilizer states” published on Quantum Science and Technology.
Stabilizer states are a central resource in quantum information processing, underpinning a wide range of applications. While they can be efficiently generated via Clifford circuits, the presence of coherent errors-such as small-angle miscalibrations in native gate implementations-can significantly impact their quality. In this work, we introduce Variational Coherent Error Mitigation (VCEM), a method that employs the stabilizer formalism to suppress coherent errors through variational optimization of native gates parameters. VCEM demonstrates robust performance, remaining largely unaffected by incoherent noise, enabling pre-compensation of coherent errors prior to the application of standard incoherent error mitigation techniques. We demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of VCEM through numerical simulations.