Benchmarking near-term devices with quantum error correction

Now that ever more sophisticated devices for quantum computing are being developed, we require ever more sophisticated benchmarks. This includes a need to determine how well these devices support the techniques required for quantum error correction. In this paper we introduce the texttt{topological_codes} module of Qiskit-Ignis, which is designed to provide the tools necessary to perform such tests. Specifically, we use the texttt{RepetitionCode} and texttt{GraphDecoder} classes to run tests based on the repetition code and process the results. As an example, data from a 43 qubit code running on IBMs emph{Rochester} device is presented.