A proposal for self-correcting stabilizer quantum memories in 3 dimensions (or slightly less)
Abstract
We propose a family of local CSS stabilizer codes as possible candidates for self-correcting quantum memories in 3D. The construction is inspired by the classical Ising model on a Sierpinski carpet fractal, which acts as a classical self-correcting memory. Our models are naturally defined on fractal subsets of a 4D hypercubic lattice with Hausdorff dimension less than 3. Though this does not imply that these models can be realised with local interactions in 3D Euclidean space, we also discuss this possibility. The X and Z sectors of the code are dual to one another, and we show that there exists a finite temperature phase transition associated with each of these sectors, providing evidence that the system may robustly store quantum information at finite temperature.
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@article{arxiv.1411.7046,
title = {A proposal for self-correcting stabilizer quantum memories in 3 dimensions (or slightly less)},
author = {Courtney G. Brell},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.7046},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
16 pages, 6 figures. In v2, erroneous argument about embeddability into R3 was removed. In v3, minor changes to match journal version