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Constructions and performance of hyperbolic and semi-hyperbolic Floquet codes

Quantum Physics 2024-11-25 v2

Abstract

We construct families of Floquet codes derived from colour code tilings of closed hyperbolic surfaces. These codes have weight-two check operators, a finite encoding rate and can be decoded efficiently with minimum-weight perfect matching. We also construct semi-hyperbolic Floquet codes, which have improved distance scaling, and are obtained via a fine-graining procedure. Using a circuit-based noise model that assumes direct two-qubit measurements, we show that semi-hyperbolic Floquet codes can be 48×48\times more efficient than planar honeycomb codes and therefore over 100×100\times more efficient than alternative compilations of the surface code to two-qubit measurements, even at physical error rates of 0.3%0.3\% to 1%1\%. We further demonstrate that semi-hyperbolic Floquet codes can have a teraquop footprint of only 32 physical qubits per logical qubit at a noise strength of 0.1%0.1\%. For standard circuit-level depolarising noise at p=0.1%p=0.1\%, we find a 30×30\times improvement over planar honeycomb codes and a 5.6×5.6\times improvement over surface codes. Finally, we analyse small instances that are amenable to near-term experiments, including a Floquet code derived from the Bolza surface that encodes four logical qubits into 16 physical qubits.

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@article{arxiv.2308.03750,
  title  = {Constructions and performance of hyperbolic and semi-hyperbolic Floquet codes},
  author = {Oscar Higgott and Nikolas P. Breuckmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.03750},
  year   = {2024}
}

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21 pages, 17 figures

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