Abstract
Generating and measuring entangled states, specifically a two-qubit Bell state (superposition of 00 and 11), are crucial benchmarks for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) hardware. This work benchmarks the fidelity of preparing this Bell state on different qubit pairs ([2, 3] and [7, 8]) on the ibm_kyiv processor over 5 runs. We employ the deviation from perfect correlation, measured by the probability of anti-correlated outcomes (01 or 10), as an analogy for unexpected decoupling in strongly correlated systems (e.g., economic indicators). Using a standard H+CNOT sequence (4096 measurements/run, SamplerV2 primitive), we characterized fidelity and applied mthree readout mitigation. Experimental raw results revealed significant variability, yielding mean anti-correlated probabilities of approx. 1.6% (std dev 0.3%) for layout [2, 3] and 9.2% (std dev 0.8%) for layout [7, 8]. This difference correlated strongly with calibration data, especially readout errors. Mitigation reduced anti-correlated probability to near-zero (at most 0.1%) for both layouts, achieving corrected correlated probabilities (00 or 11) of approx. 99.9-100.0%. The raw anti-correlated probability range provides an analogue for 'unexpected decoupling' likelihood under varying noise, while mitigation suggests isolating system dynamics from measurement noise. This work provides multi-run ibm_kyiv fidelity benchmarks, shows mitigation effectiveness, highlights variability linked to calibration, and quantifies the proposed economic analogy.
Supplementary materials
Title
Causal Loop
Description
Causal Loop Diagram of the Economic Decoupling Risk Analogy derived from Quantum Fidelity Measurements
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