DETERMINING QUANTUM ERROR CORRECTION SCHEMES

A method, apparatus and product includes obtaining a logical representation of a quantum circuit that is implementable by a plurality of alternative physical representations of the quantum circuit, each of which implementing the logical representation with a different error correction scheme and defining error correction schemes for the quantum circuit. The defining error correction schemes includes implementing a search algorithm on the alternative physical representations, wherein the search algorithm is configured to search for a physical representation of the quantum circuit with an assignment of a plurality of physical qubits to a plurality of logical qubits that is defined in view of a quality score. A quality metric used to compute the quality score is monotonically correlated to error rates of logical output qubits of the quantum circuit when implementing each alternative physical representation. The assignment is utilized to define the error correction schemes for the quantum circuit.