Transversal switching between generic stabilizer codes
Quantum Physics
2018-01-31 v4
Abstract
We propose a randomized variant of the stabilizer rewiring algorithm (SRA), a method for constructing a transversal circuit mapping between any pair of stabilizer codes. As gates along this circuit are applied, the initial code is deformed through a series of intermediate codes before reaching the final code. With this randomized variant, we show that there always exists a path of deformations which preserves the code distance throughout the circuit, while using at most linear overhead in the distance. Furthermore, we show that a random path will almost always suffice, and discuss prospects for implementing general fault-tolerant code switching circuits.
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@article{arxiv.1709.09282,
title = {Transversal switching between generic stabilizer codes},
author = {Cupjin Huang and Michael Newman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.09282},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
9 pages, 4 figures, removed erroneous fault-tolerance claim