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"Scalable testing of quantum error correction" by Jens Palsberg (UCLA)

QUBITS Seminar where Jens Palsberg (UCLA) will present a scalable approach to testing quantum error correction, combining stratified fault injection with extrapolation to enable efficient benchmarking at larger code distances and low physical error rates.

Info about event

Time

Monday 28 September 2026,  at 02:15 - 16:00

Location

Aarhus University, Auditorium 1593-012

Organizer

Quantum Campus Aarhus (QCA)

Price

Free - no registration DKK

About the talk

The standard method for benchmarking quantum error correction is randomized fault-injection testing. The state-of-the-art tool Stim is efficient for error-correction implementations with distances of up to 10, but scales poorly to larger distances for low physical error rates.

In this talk, I will present a scalable approach that combines stratified fault injection with extrapolation. The insight is that some of the fault space can be sampled efficiently, after which extrapolation is sufficient to complete the testing task. As a result, our tool scales to distance 17 for a physical error rate of 0.0005 with a two-hour time budget on a desktop. For this case, it estimated a logical error rate of $1.5 \times 10^{-11}$ with high confidence.

About the speaker

Jens Palsberg is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research interests span the areas of programming languages, software engineering, and quantum computing.

He is the director of the UCLA-Amazon Science Hub for Humanity and Artificial Intelligence, the co-director of the UCLA Center for Quantum Science and Engineering, and an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing. In 2012, he received the ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award, and in 2023, he received an Excellence in Teaching Award from the UCLA Samueli Engineering School for his courses on quantum computing. In Fall 2026, he is a visiting professor at Aarhus University.