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Error-detected surgery on Iceberg codes

Quantum Physics 2026-08-06 v1

Abstract

We construct explicit error-detecting surgery gadgets---small systems of auxiliary qubits and checks---for the high-rate Iceberg codes [[2N,2N2,2]][[2N,2N-2,2]], to perform fault-detected measurements of logical Pauli products. The construction follows the perspective of surgery as the gauging of a logical operator, regarded as a symmetry of the code. We give a complete classification of logical Pauli operators under the permutation automorphism group of the Iceberg code, reducing the construction to one gadget per orbit, and we verify with circuit-level simulations that the gadgets are fault-detecting, with the expected post-selected logical error rate. The gadgets require reconfigurable long-range connectivity, available on platforms such as neutral-atom arrays, making an error-detected demonstration of Pauli-based computation a natural near-term experiment. The paper doubles as a self-contained introduction to gauging and code surgery, developed alongside a simple worked example.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2608.06187,
  title  = {Error-detected surgery on Iceberg codes},
  author = {Andrea Di Fini and Samuel Crew and Laura Pecorari and Guido Pupillo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.06187},
  year   = {2026}
}