Depth Before Noise Wins

A NISQ device has a two-qubit gate error rate of 5×10−35 \times 10^{-3} and negligible single-qubit error. A transpiled circuit contains 120 two-qubit gates arranged into 24 layers. Assuming independent errors, roughly what fraction of shots complete with no gate error at all?

A

About 0.995

B

About 0.55

C

About 0.40

D

About 0.89