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Quantum codes do not increase fidelity against isotropic errors

Quantum Physics 2022-01-24 v1

Abstract

Given an mm-qubit Φ0\Phi_0 and an (n,m)(n,m)-quantum code C\mathcal{C}, let Φ\Phi be the nn-qubit that results from the C\mathcal{C}-encoding of Φ0\Phi_0. Suppose that the state Φ\Phi is affected by an isotropic error (decoherence), becoming Ψ\Psi, and that the corrector circuit of C\mathcal{C} is applied to Ψ\Psi, obtaining the quantum state Φ~\tilde\Phi. Alternatively, we analyze the effect of the isotropic error without using the quantum code C\mathcal{C}. In this case the error transforms Φ0\Phi_0 into Ψ0\Psi_0. Assuming that the correction circuit does not introduce new errors and that it does not increase the execution time, we compare the fidelity of Ψ\Psi, Φ~\tilde\Phi and Ψ0\Psi_0 with the aim of analyzing the power of quantum codes to control isotropic errors. We prove that F(Ψ0)F(Φ~)F(Ψ)F(\Psi_0) \geq F(\tilde\Phi) \geq F(\Psi). Therefore the best option to optimize fidelity against isotropic errors is not to use quantum codes.

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@article{arxiv.2201.08589,
  title  = {Quantum codes do not increase fidelity against isotropic errors},
  author = {J. Lacalle and L. M. Pozo-Coronado and A. L. Fonseca de Oliveira and R. Martin-Cuevas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.08589},
  year   = {2022}
}
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