The continuous path from error mitigation to fault-tolerant quantum computing

Quantum error mitigation and quantum error correction are often framed as tools for different eras of quantum computing: mitigation for near-term devices and correction for scalable fault tolerance.

In practice, however, we see a continuous path from error mitigation to error correction.

Explore the continuum from error mitigation to error correction yourself with the tutorials and learning resources on IBM Quantum Platform.

Released as a beta service late last year, the directed execution model made error mitigation configurable on the client side to enable experimentation with advanced error mitigation capabilities.

Even in the era of fault-tolerant quantum computing, we expect error mitigation and post-selection to work together with qLDPC error correction to provide better logical performance with the same hardware.