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Quantum Information and Computation     ISSN: 1533-7146      published since 2001
Vol.19 No.15&16 December 2019  

Variance of the sum of independent quantum computing errors (pp1294-1312)
          
Jesus Lacalle and Luis Miguel Pozo Coronado
         
doi: https://doi.org/10.26421/QIC19.15-16-3
Abstracts: The sum of quantum computing errors is the key element both for the estimation and control of errors in quantum computing and for its statistical study. In this article we analyze the sum of two independent quantum computing errors, X_1 and X_2, and we obtain the formula of the variance of the sum of these errors: V(X_1+X_2)=V(X_1)+V(X_2)-\frac{V(X_1)V(X_2)}{2}. We conjecture that this result holds true for general quantum computing errors and we prove the formula for independent isotropic quantum computing errors.
Key words:
Quantum computing errors; variance; isotropic quantum computing errors; random variables on spheres

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