Metrological Benchmarking of Random Quantum Circuits

arXiv:2609.39226 · quant-ph · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Terminology

• Benchmark — 24× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 22× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fisher Information — 21× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Quantum Circuits — 19× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hilbert Space — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantum Fisher Information (QFI) — 7× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Out-of-Time Order Correlator — 4× in this paper
• Fidelity — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Addressability — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Benchmarking near-term quantum computers via random circuit sampling
• A sharp phase transition in linear cross-entropy benchmarking
• A Universal Protocol for Quantum-Enhanced Sensing via Information Scrambling
• The Clifford group forms a unitary 3-design
• The Clifford group fails gracefully to be a unitary 4-design

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