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We introduce error-correcting codes that can correct for fermion parity-violating (quasiparticle poisoning) and parity-conserving errors in systems of complex fermions and of Majorana fermions. After establishing properties of fermion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 Sagar Vijay , Liang Fu

Operator quantum error correction provides a unified framework for the known techniques of quantum error correction such as the standard error correction model, the method of decoherence-free subspaces, and the noiseless subsystem method.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-25 Ri Qu , Bing-jian Shang , Yan-ru Bao , Yi-ping Ma

The unique features of quantum theory offer a powerful new paradigm for information processing. Translating these mathematical abstractions into useful algorithms and applications requires quantum systems with significant complexity and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Atharv Joshi , Kyungjoo Noh , Yvonne Y. Gao

Quantum error correction is rapidly seeing first experimental implementations, but there is a significant gap between asymptotically optimal error-correcting codes and codes that are experimentally feasible. Quantum LDPC codes range from…

The recently introduced detected-jump correcting quantum codes are capable of stabilizing qubit-systems against spontaneous decay processes arising from couplings to statistically independent reservoirs. These embedded quantum codes exploit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-31 G. Alber , Th. Beth , Ch. Charnes , A. Delgado , M. Grassl , M. Mussinger

Bosonic codes have seen a resurgence in interest for applications as varied as fault tolerant quantum architectures, quantum enhanced sensing, and entanglement distribution. Cat codes have been proposed as low-level elements in larger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Michael Hanks , Soovin Lee , Nicolo Lo Piparo , Shin Nishio , William J. Munro , Kae Nemoto , M. S. Kim

Graph codes play an important role in photonic quantum technologies as they provide significant protection against qubit loss, a dominant noise mechanism. Here, we develop methods to analyse and optimise measurement-based tolerance to qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Tom J. Bell , Love A. Pettersson , Stefano Paesani

Quantum error correction and symmetries play central roles in quantum information science and physics. It is known that quantum error-correcting codes covariant with respect to continuous symmetries cannot correct erasure errors perfectly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Linghang Kong , Zi-Wen Liu

Bosonic codes with rotational symmetry are currently one of the best performing quantum error correcting codes. Little is known about error propagation and code distance for these rotation codes in contrast with qubit codes and Bosonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Benjamin Marinoff , Miles Bush , Joshua Combes

The goal of combining beamforming and space-time coding in this work is to obtain full-diversity order and to provide additional received power (array gain) compared to conventional space-time codes. In our system, we consider a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-04-23 Siavash Ekbatani , Hamid Jafarkhani

Designing quantum error correcting codes that promise a high error threshold, low resource overhead and efficient decoding algorithms is crucial to achieve large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computation. The concatenated quantum Hamming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Menglong Fang , Daiqin Su

The theory of quantum error correction was established more than a decade ago as the primary tool for fighting decoherence in quantum information processing. Although great progress has already been made in this field, limited methods are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Zhuo Wang , Kai Sun , Hen Fan , Vlatko Vedral

We demonstrate that the performance of quantum error correction can be improved with noise-aware decoders that are calibrated to the likelihood of physical error configurations in a device. We show that noise-aware decoding increases the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Evan T. Hockings , Andrew C. Doherty , Robin Harper

A permutationally invariant n-bit code for quantum error correction can be realized as a subspace stabilized by the non-Abelian group S_n. The code corresponds to bases for the trivial representation, and all other irreducible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Harriet Pollatsek , Mary Beth Ruskai

The constituent parts of a quantum computer are inherently vulnerable to errors. To this end we have developed quantum error-correcting codes to protect quantum information from noise. However, discovering codes that are capable of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Benjamin J. Brown , Naomi H. Nickerson , Dan E. Browne

Physical qubits in a quantum computer are often represented by superposition states of single particles or excitations. Decay of the excitation itself is a fundamental error channel that is difficult to overcome via external drive or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Shruti Shirol , Sean van Geldern , Hanzhe Xi , Chen Wang

We propose a new scheme for quantum error correction using robust continuous variable probe modes, rather than fragile ancilla qubits, to detect errors without destroying data qubits. The use of such probe modes reduces the required number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fumiko Yamaguchi , Kae Nemoto , William J. Munro

The binomial code is renowned for its parity-mediated loss immunity and loss-error recoverability, while geometric phases are widely recognized for their intrinsic resilience against noise. Capitalizing on their complementary merits, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Dong-Sheng Li , Yang Xiao , Yu Wang , Yang Liu , Zhi-Cheng Shi , Ye-Hong Chen , Yi-Hao Kang , Yan Xia

A fundamental requirement for enabling fault-tolerant quantum information processing is an efficient quantum error-correcting code (QECC) that robustly protects the involved fragile quantum states from their environment. Just as classical…

We analyse a generalised quantum error correction code against photon loss where a logical qubit is encoded into a subspace of a single oscillator mode that is spanned by distinct multi-component cat states (coherent-state superpositions).…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Marcel Bergmann , Peter van Loock