Parafermion stabilizer codes
Quantum Physics
2014-10-30 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract
We define and study parafermion stabilizer codes which can be viewed as generalizations of Kitaev's one dimensional model of unpaired Majorana fermions. Parafermion stabilizer codes can protect against low-weight errors acting on a small subset of parafermion modes in analogy to qudit stabilizer codes. Examples of several smallest parafermion stabilizer codes are given. A locality preserving embedding of qudit operators into parafermion operators is established which allows one to map known qudit stabilizer codes to parafermion codes. We also present a local 2D parafermion construction that combines topological protection of Kitaev's toric code with additional protection relying on parity conservation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1409.4724,
title = {Parafermion stabilizer codes},
author = {Utkan Güngördü and Rabindra Nepal and Alexey A. Kovalev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.4724},
year = {2014}
}