Self-dual bivariate bicycle codes with transversal Clifford gates
Abstract
Bivariate bicycle codes are promising candidates for high-threshold, low-overhead fault-tolerant quantum memories. Meanwhile, color codes are the most prominent self-dual CSS codes, supporting transversal Clifford gates that have been demonstrated experimentally. In this work, we combine these advantages and introduce a broad family of self-dual bivariate bicycle codes. These codes achieve higher encoding rates than surface and color codes while admitting transversal CNOT, Hadamard, and gates. In particular, we enumerate weight-8 self-dual bivariate bicycle codes with up to physical qubits, realized on twisted tori that enhance code distance and improve stabilizer locality. Representative examples include codes with parameters : , , , , , , and .
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@article{arxiv.2510.05211,
title = {Self-dual bivariate bicycle codes with transversal Clifford gates},
author = {Zijian Liang and Yu-An Chen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.05211},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
7+2 pages, 3 figures; v2: typos fixed, figures updated