Error characterization in Quantum Information Processing: a protocol for analyzing spatial correlations and its experimental implementation

Abstract

We present a protocol for error characterization and its experimental implementation with 4 qubits in liquid state NMR. The method is designed to retrieve information about spatial correlations and scales as $O(n^w)$, where $w$ is the maximum number of qubits that have non-negligible interaction. We discuss the practical aspects regarding accuracy and implementation.

Added extra comments to version 2. Accepted in PRA