Diurnal Noise in Superconducting Quantum Processors is Deterministic and Correctable Using Solar-Angular Position

Superconducting quantum processors exhibit strong non-stationary noise that correlates with local time of day. Using 54,321 publicly available calibration cycles from the 127-qubit IBM Quantum processor ibm_brisbane (November 2024 -- February 2025), we demonstrate that 91--94% of single-qubit frequency drift and two-qubit crosstalk variation is deterministic and driven by local solar elevation angle. We introduce a real-time feed-forward phase correction of the form $\Delta\phi_k(t)=-\alpha_k\sin(\theta_\odot(t))-\beta_k\cos(\theta_\odot(t))$, where $\theta_\odot(t)$ is the true solar azimuth computed from civil time and geographic coordinates. This hardware-free mitigation reduces effective thermal drift by a factor of 11.3 and CZ-gate error peaks by 87% during solar noon. When applied to variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) circuits for the $H_{2}O$ molecule (32 qubits, UCCSD ansatz), the method restores chemical accuracy (1.9 mHa error) in 19 iterations versus divergence without correction. These results establish that a significant fraction of previously irreducible noise in near-term quantum devices is environmentally deterministic and can be compensated using only the solar-angular coordinate.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2025-12-08
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17893323
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Quantum Information and Cryptography
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Diurnal Noise in Superconducting Quantum Processors is Deterministic and Correctable Using Solar-Angular Position

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Diurnal Noise in Superconducting Quantum Processors is Deterministic and Correctable Using Solar-Angular Position

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Abstract

Superconducting quantum processors exhibit strong non-stationary noise that correlates with local time of day. Using 54,321 publicly available calibration cycles from the 127-qubit IBM Quantum processor ibm_brisbane (November 2024 -- February 2025), we demonstrate that 91--94% of single-qubit frequency drift and two-qubit crosstalk variation is deterministic and driven by local solar elevation angle. We introduce a real-time feed-forward phase correction of the form $\Delta\phi_k(t)=-\alpha_k\sin(\theta_\odot(t))-\beta_k\cos(\theta_\odot(t))$, where $\theta_\odot(t)$ is the true solar azimuth computed from civil time and geographic coordinates. This hardware-free mitigation reduces effective thermal drift by a factor of 11.3 and CZ-gate error peaks by 87% during solar noon. When applied to variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) circuits for the $H_{2}O$ molecule (32 qubits, UCCSD ansatz), the method restores chemical accuracy (1.9 mHa error) in 19 iterations versus divergence without correction. These results establish that a significant fraction of previously irreducible noise in near-term quantum devices is environmentally deterministic and can be compensated using only the solar-angular coordinate.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Techniques of Informatics and Microelectronics for Integrated Systems Architecture (FR)
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