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Leakage is a particularly damaging error that occurs when a qubit state falls out of its two-level computational subspace. Compared to independent depolarizing noise, leaked qubits may produce many more configurations of harmful correlated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Natalie C. Brown , Michael Newman , Kenneth R. Brown

We present a universal fault-tolerant quantum computing architecture based on identical particle qubits (IPQs), where we find that the first-order IPQ - bath interaction fundamentally differs from the conventional first-order qubit-bath…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 S. L. Wu , Lian-Ao Wu

Bosonic codes encode quantum information into a single infinite-dimensional physical system endowed with error correction capabilities. This reduces the need for complex management of many physical constituents compared with standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Long D. H. My , Shushen Qin , Hui Khoon Ng

We consider the combined effect of readout errors and coherent errors, i.e., deterministic phase rotations, on the surface code. We use a recently developed numerical approach, via a mapping of the physical qubits to Majorana fermions. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-22 Áron Márton , János K. Asbóth

Surface codes$\unicode{x2014}$leading candidates for quantum error correction (QEC)$\unicode{x2014}$and entanglement phases$\unicode{x2014}$a key notion for many-body quantum dynamics$\unicode{x2014}$have heretofore been unrelated. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Jan Behrends , Florian Venn , Benjamin Béri

We propose a family of surface codes with general lattice structures, where the error-tolerances against bit and phase errors can be controlled asymmetrically by changing the underlying lattice geometries. The surface codes on various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Keisuke Fujii , Yuuki Tokunaga

The realistic coherent errors could induce very different behaviors compared with their stochastic counterparts in the quantum error correction (QEC) and fault tolerant quantum computation. Their impacts are believed to be very subtle, more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-02 Yuanchen Zhao , Dong E. Liu

We study the effect of continuous quantum error correction in the case where each qubit in a codeword is subject to a general Hamiltonian interaction with an independent bath. We first consider the scheme in the case of a trivial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-24 Ognyan Oreshkov , Todd A. Brun

Quantum error correction becomes a practical possibility only if the physical error rate is below a threshold value that depends on a particular quantum code, syndrome measurement circuit, and decoding algorithm. Here we present an…

Traditional quantum error-correcting codes are designed for the depolarizing channel modeled by generalized Pauli errors occurring with equal probability. Amplitude damping channels model, in general, the decay process of a multilevel atom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Markus Grassl , Linghang Kong , Zhaohui Wei , Zhang-Qi Yin , Bei Zeng

Continuous-variable systems protected by bosonic quantum error-correcting codes have emerged as a promising platform for quantum information processing. To date, design of codewords has centered on optimizing the occupation of basis states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Linshu Li , Dylan J. Young , Victor V. Albert , Kyungjoo Noh , Chang-Ling Zou , Liang Jiang

Asymmetric quantum error-correcting codes are quantum codes defined over biased quantum channels: qubit-flip and phase-shift errors may have equal or different probabilities. The code construction is the Calderbank-Shor-Steane construction…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Johan P. Hansen

The construction of topological error correction codes requires the ability to fabricate a lattice of physical qubits embedded on a manifold with a non-trivial topology such that the quantum information is encoded in the global degrees of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 James M. Auger , Hussain Anwar , Mercedes Gimeno-Segovia , Thomas M. Stace , Dan E. Browne

We analyze quantum state preservation in open quantum systems using quantum error-correcting (QEC) codes explicitly embedded in microscopic system-bath models. Rather than assuming abstract quantum channels, we consider multi-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Nirupam Basak , Goutam Paul , Pritam Chattopadhyay

Surface codes are among the best candidates to ensure the fault-tolerance of a quantum computer. In order to avoid the accumulation of errors during a computation, it is crucial to have at our disposal a fast decoding algorithm to quickly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Nicolas Delfosse , Gilles Zémor

In many physical systems it is expected that environmental decoherence will exhibit an asymmetry between dephasing and relaxation that may result in qubits experiencing discrete phase errors more frequently than discrete bit errors. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. M. Stephens , Z. W. E. Evans , S. J. Devitt , L. C. L. Hollenberg

The realization of quantum error correction is an essential ingredient for reaching the full potential of fault-tolerant universal quantum computation. Using a range of different schemes, logical qubits can be redundantly encoded in a set…

Quantum error correcting codes have a distance parameter, conveying the minimum number of single spin errors that could cause error correction to fail. However, the success thresholds of finite per-qubit error rate that have been proven for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-26 Alastair Kay

The well-known increase of the decoherence rate with the temperature, for a quantum system coupled to a linear thermal bath, holds no longer for a different bath dynamics. This is shown by means of a simple classical non-linear bath, as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-23 A. Montina , F. T. Arecchi

Bosonic systems offer unique advantages for quantum error correction, as a single bosonic mode provides a large Hilbert space to redundantly encode quantum information. However, previous studies have been limited to exploiting symmetries in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Dong-Long Hu , Weizhou Cai , Chang-Ling Zou , Ze-Liang Xiang