Mitiq is a Python toolkit for implementing error mitigation techniques on quantum computers.

Current quantum computers are noisy due to interactions with the environment, imperfect gate applications, state preparation and measurement errors, etc. Error mitigation seeks to reduce these effects at the software level by compiling quantum programs in clever ways.

Want to know more? Check out our documentation.

Mitiq can be installed from PyPi via

pip install mitiq

To test installation, run

import mitiq
mitiq.about()

This prints out version information about core requirements and optional quantum software packages which Mitiq can interface with.

If you'd prefer to clone and install from source, our would like to develop Mitiq, check out the contribution guidelines for more information.

Mitiq can currently interface with:

• Cirq,
• Qiskit,
• pyQuil.

Cirq is a core requirement of Mitiq and is automatically installed. To use Mitiq with other quantum programming libraries, install the optional package(s) following the instructions linked above.

Mitiq can be used on any quantum processor which can be accessed by supported quantum programming libraries and is available to the user.

See the getting started guide in Mitiq's documentation for a complete walkthrough of how to use mitiq. For a quick preview, check out the following snippet for a simple example of Mitiq in action:

import numpy as np
from cirq import depolarize, Circuit, DensityMatrixSimulator, LineQubit, X
from mitiq import execute_with_zne

def noisy_simulation(circ: Circuit) -> float:
    """Simulates a circuit with depolarizing noise.

    Args:
        circ: The quantum program as a Cirq Circuit.

    Returns:
        The expectation value of the |0><0| observable.
    """
    circuit = circ.with_noise(depolarize(p=0.001))
    rho = DensityMatrixSimulator().simulate(circuit).final_density_matrix
    return np.real(np.trace(rho @ np.diag([1, 0])))

# simple circuit that should compose to the identity when noiseless
circ = Circuit(X(LineQubit(0)) for _ in range(80))

# run the circuit using a density matrix simulator with depolarizing noise
unmitigated = noisy_simulation(circ)
print(f"Error in simulation (w/o  mitigation): {1.0 - unmitigated:.{3}}")

# run again, but using mitiq's zero-noise extrapolation to mitigate errors
mitigated = execute_with_zne(circ, noisy_simulation)
print(f"Error in simulation (with mitigation): {1.0 - mitigated:.{3}}")

Sample output:

Error in simulation (w/o  mitigation): 0.0506
Error in simulation (with mitigation): 0.000519

Mitiq currently implements:

• Zero-Noise Extrapolation,
• Probabilistic Error Cancellation,

and is designed to support additional techniques.

Mitiq's documentation is hosted at mitiq.readthedocs.io. A PDF version of the latest release can be found here.

We welcome contributions to Mitiq including bug fixes, feature requests, etc. Please see the contribution guidelines for more details. To contribute to the documentation, please see these documentation guidelines.

An up-to-date list of authors can be found here.

We are looking forward to adding new features to Mitiq. If you have a proposal for implementing a new quantum error mitigation technique, or adding an example used in your research, please read our guidelines for contributing.

If you use Mitiq in your research, please reference the Mitiq preprint as follows:

@misc{larose2020mitiq,
    title={Mitiq: A software package for error mitigation on noisy quantum computers},
    author={Ryan LaRose and Andrea Mari and Peter J. Karalekas
            and Nathan Shammah and William J. Zeng},
    year={2020},
    eprint={2009.04417},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={quant-ph}
}

A list of papers citing Mitiq can be found here.

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