Characterizing the Effects of Zero-Noise Extrapolation on a QAOA Workflow
M. Vénere, Adriano Lusso, Victor Onofre, Alberto Maldonado-Romo, Marco Domenico Santambrogio · 2024
The effects of noise on NISQ devices strongly limit the current applicability of quantum combinatorial optimization algorithms. In this work, we integrate ZNE, an error mitigation technique, into the QAOA, thus adding further reliability to the method. We also perform a benchmark to assess the effects of mitigation on the exploration of the parameters space performed by the optimizer.