Quantum computing is one of the most promising technology advances of the latest years. Qubits are highly sensitive to noise, which can make the output useless. Lately, it has been shown that superconducting qubits are extremely susceptible to external sources of faults, such as ionizing radiation. When adopted in large scale, radiation-induced errors are expected to become a serious challenge for qubits reliability. We propose an evaluation of the impact of transient faults in the execution of quantum circuits on superconducting chips. Inspired by the Architectural and Program Vulnerability Factors, widely used for classical computation, we propose the Quantum Vulnerability Factor (QVF) to measure the impact of qubit corruption on the circuit output. We model faults, and design a fault injector, based on the latest studies on real machines and radiation experiments. We report the finding of more than 388,000,000 fault injections, considering single and double faults, on three algorithms, identifying the faults and qubits that are more likely to impact the output. We give guidelines on how to map the qubits in real devices to reduce the output error and to reduce the probability of having a radiation-induced corruption modifying the output. Finally, we compare simulations with experiments on physical quantum computers.

A Systematic Methodology to Compute the Quantum Vulnerability Factors for Quantum Circuits / Oliveira, Daniel; Giusto, Edoardo; Baheri, Betis; Guan, Qiang; Montrucchio, Bartolomeo; Rech, Paolo. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DEPENDABLE AND SECURE COMPUTING. - ISSN 1545-5971. - (2024), pp. 1-15. [10.1109/TDSC.2023.3313934]

A Systematic Methodology to Compute the Quantum Vulnerability Factors for Quantum Circuits

Daniel Oliveira;Edoardo Giusto;Bartolomeo Montrucchio;Paolo Rech
2024

Abstract

Quantum computing is one of the most promising technology advances of the latest years. Qubits are highly sensitive to noise, which can make the output useless. Lately, it has been shown that superconducting qubits are extremely susceptible to external sources of faults, such as ionizing radiation. When adopted in large scale, radiation-induced errors are expected to become a serious challenge for qubits reliability. We propose an evaluation of the impact of transient faults in the execution of quantum circuits on superconducting chips. Inspired by the Architectural and Program Vulnerability Factors, widely used for classical computation, we propose the Quantum Vulnerability Factor (QVF) to measure the impact of qubit corruption on the circuit output. We model faults, and design a fault injector, based on the latest studies on real machines and radiation experiments. We report the finding of more than 388,000,000 fault injections, considering single and double faults, on three algorithms, identifying the faults and qubits that are more likely to impact the output. We give guidelines on how to map the qubits in real devices to reduce the output error and to reduce the probability of having a radiation-induced corruption modifying the output. Finally, we compare simulations with experiments on physical quantum computers.
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