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Less Bacon More Threshold

Quantum Physics 2023-05-23 v1

Abstract

We give the Bacon-Shor code a threshold purely by deleting gates from its circuit. Specifically: we use lattice surgery to concatenate the Bacon-Shor code with itself using local planar connectivity, and observe that the resulting circuit is a subset of the circuit that would be used by a larger Bacon-Shor code.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2305.12046,
  title  = {Less Bacon More Threshold},
  author = {Craig Gidney and Dave Bacon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.12046},
  year   = {2023}
}
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