Application-Aware Benchmarking of NISQ Hardware

Kurzfassung

Recent experiments have hinted towards an upcoming era of quantum utility, in which quantum hardware is able to outperform classical simulation methods for a variety of real-world applications. In this work, we show how application-inspired families of Clifford circuits can be used to benchmark the capabilities of current hardware for running certain applications, providing a prediction as to how measured expectation value fidelities scale with circuit depth. Considering the specific example of simulating kicked-Ising circuits, we benchmark a 127-qubit superconducting device and suggest how our circuits can also be used to benchmark recent classical simulation methods.