Hardware Acceleration of Near-Term Quantum Computation

Achieving a practical computational advantage with near-term quantum computers will require contending with hardware errors, likely through a combination of a carefully chosen application and the use of techniques to mitigate errors. A number of both possible near-term applications and error mitigation techniques have been demonstrated, but there is still an open question about the practicality of these approaches given both practical limitations to these methods as well as the execution time required to enact them. Here we will discuss how using advanced control system techniques at runtime may speed up and improve the performance of near-term quantum computation.