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Code conversion with the quantum Golay code for a universal transversal gate set

Quantum Physics 2024-04-22 v3

Abstract

The [[7,1,3]][[7,1,3]] Steane code and [[23,1,7]][[23,1,7]] quantum Golay code have been identified as good candidates for fault-tolerant quantum computing via code concatenation. These two codes have transversal implementations of all Clifford gates, but require some other scheme for fault-tolerant TT gates. Using magic states, Clifford operations, and measurements is one common scheme, but magic state distillation can have a large overhead. Code conversion is one avenue for implementing a universal gate set fault-tolerantly without the use of magic state distillation. Analogously to how the [[7,1,3]][[7,1,3]] Steane code can be fault-tolerantly converted to and from the [[15,1,3]][[15,1,3]] Reed-Muller code which has a transversal TT gate, the [[23,1,7]][[23,1,7]] Golay code can be converted to a [[95,1,7]][[95,1,7]] triorthogonal code with a transversal TT gate. A crucial ingredient to this procedure is the [[49,1,5]][[49,1,5]] triorthogonal code, which can itself be seen as related to the self-dual [[17,1,5]][[17,1,5]] 2D color code. Additionally, a method for code conversion based on a transversal CNOT between the codes, rather than stabilizer measurements, is described.

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@article{arxiv.2307.14425,
  title  = {Code conversion with the quantum Golay code for a universal transversal gate set},
  author = {Matthew Sullivan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.14425},
  year   = {2024}
}

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11 pages, 3 figures, equivalent to published version