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Table 1 Performance of IBM’s quantum devices in our Elitzur–Vaidman bomb experiments. The averaged efficiency η for all machines are listed in the first row, differ from the theoretical efficiency \(\eta =1/3\). The absolute error is calculated as \(\vert \eta -1/3 \vert \), relative error is \(\frac{ \vert 1/3-\eta \vert }{1/3}\), and standard deviation is \(\sqrt{ \sum_{i=1}^{n}\frac{(\eta _{i}-\eta )^{2}}{n}}\), with n is the total number of runs and \(\eta _{i}\) is the efficiency of the ith run. Device error is calculated using the fidelity of a circuit, which is estimated as the product of fidelities of the circuit’s component gates. This information from IBM can be found in our Github [22] for the time that we ran these experiments

From: Experimenting quantum phenomena on NISQ computers using high level quantum programming

 

Essex

Ourense

Burlington

London

Vigo

Valencia

x2

η

0.417

0.387

0.303

0.306

0.356

0.325

0.309

Absolute error

0.084

0.054

0.031

0.027

0.022

0.008

0.024

Relative error

25.1%

16.2%

9.2%

8.1%

6.7%

2.5%

7.3%

Standard deviation

0.034

0.047

0.060

0.029

0.017

0.025

0.028

Relative device error

9.3%

4.9%

6.2%

7.4%

4.1%

4.0%

5.3%

Absolute device error

0.039

0.019

0.019

0.023

0.015

0.013

0.016