Students map quantum error stages to AWS services

Students at the University of Washington have built a hands-on laboratory for combating quantum noise, directly mapping strategies to services within Amazon Web Services. As part of a 10-week industry mentorship with AWS, the team progressed through noise suppression, mitigation and correction, techniques important for realizing practical quantum computing. The students used Amazon Braket and AWS infrastructure to run experiments on both simulated and real quantum hardware, including the Rigetti Cepheus-1-108Q processor. This work demonstrates how each stage “maps naturally onto AWS services,” according to the team. The University of Washington team’s error correction layer proved most computationally intensive, requiring parallel execution managed by AWS Batch, a service designed for efficiently distributing and running large numbers…