What happens when I use QSE?#
A figure for the typical workflow for QSE is shown below:
Workflow of the QSE technique in Mitiq, detailed in the What happens when I use QSE? section.#
The QSE workflow in Mitiq is divided into two steps
Generate the code and overlap Hamiltonian
Perform a classical minimization problem in order to retrieve the error-mitigated expectation value.
Similar to the workflow of other mitigation techniques on Mitiq, a user will have to provide an input circuit, an executor and an observable for which to compute the error-mitigated expectation value. Furthermore, this technique relies on choosing a basis of expansion operators (the check operators), and a Hamiltonian which defines the state with least amount of errors.
This method will perform the necessary computation in order to project to a state that minimizes the energy of the state with respect to the Hamiltonian. It will then return the error-mitigated expected value by solving the generalized eigenvalue problem.