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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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Zijian Liang , Yu-An Chen

Certain notorious nonlinear binary codes contain more codewords than any known linear code. These include the codes constructed by Nordstrom-Robinson, Kerdock, Preparata, Goethals, and Delsarte-Goethals. It is shown here that all these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-16 A. Roger Hammons, , P. Vijay Kumar , A. R. Calderbank , N. J. A. Sloane , Patrick Solé

Recently, operator quantum error-correcting codes have been proposed to unify and generalize decoherence free subspaces, noiseless subsystems, and quantum error-correcting codes. This note introduces a natural construction of such codes in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-13 Andreas Klappenecker , Pradeep Kiran Sarvepalli

Let $R=\mathbb{F}_{2^{m}}+u\mathbb{F}_{2^{m}}+\cdots+u^{k}\mathbb{F}_{2^{m}}$ , where $\mathbb{F}_{2^{m}}$ is a finite field with $2^{m}$ elements, $m$ is a positive integer, $u$ is an indeterminate with $u^{k+1}=0.$ In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Yongsheng Tang , Shixin Zhu , Xiaoshan Kai , Jian Ding

In this work, we study distributions of unitaries generated by random quantum circuits containing only symmetry-respecting gates. We develop a unified approach applicable to all symmetry groups and obtain an equation that determines the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 Hanqing Liu , Austin Hulse , Iman Marvian

We introduce a Gray map from $\mathbb{F}_{2^{m}}+u\mathbb{F}_{2^{m}}$ to $\mathbb{F}_{2}^{2m}$ and study $(1+u)$-constacyclic codes over $\mathbb{F}_{2^{m}}+u\mathbb{F}_{2^{m}},$ where $u^{2}=0.$ It is proved that the image of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Yongsheng Tang , Ting Yao , Shixin Zhu , Xiaoshan Kai

A Space-Time Block Code (STBC) in $K$ symbols (variables) is called $g$-group decodable STBC if its maximum-likelihood decoding metric can be written as a sum of $g$ terms such that each term is a function of a subset of the $K$ variables…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Sanjay Karmakar , B. Sundar Rajan

The Clifford hierarchy is a nested sequence of sets of quantum gates that can be fault-tolerantly performed using gate teleportation within standard quantum error correction schemes. The groups of Pauli and Clifford gates constitute the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Nadish de Silva , Oscar Lautsch

We consider random quantum circuits (RQC) on arbitrary connected graphs whose edges determine the allowed $2$-qudit interactions. Prior work has established that such $n$-qudit circuits with local dimension $q$ on 1D, complete, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Shivan Mittal , Nicholas Hunter-Jones

Symmetry is at the heart of coding theory. Codes with symmetry, especially cyclic codes, play an essential role in both theory and practical applications of classical error-correcting codes. Here we examine symmetry properties for codeword…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-30 Salman Beigi , Jianxin Chen , Markus Grassl , Zhengfeng Ji , Qiang Wang , Bei Zeng

Applying single-qubit Clifford unitaries to a Pauli stabilizer code produces a Clifford-deformed variant whose stabilizers remain Pauli operators, but with locally rotated Pauli axes. Such deformations provide a simple way to tailor a fixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Jagannath Das , Sayandip Dhara , Pedro Medina , Arthur Pesah , Arpit Dua

In quantum coding theory, stabilizer codes are probably the most important class of quantum codes. They are regarded as the quantum analogue of the classical linear codes and the properties of stabilizer codes have been carefully studied in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 Ching-Yi Lai , Chung-Chin Lu

We propose a scheme for detecting and correcting faults in any Clifford circuit. The scheme is based on the observation that the set of all possible outcome bit-strings of a Clifford circuit is a linear code, which we call the outcome code.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Nicolas Delfosse , Adam Paetznick

Random quantum circuits are proficient information scramblers and efficient generators of randomness, rapidly approximating moments of the unitary group. We study the convergence of local random quantum circuits to unitary $k$-designs.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-31 Nicholas Hunter-Jones

We study locality preserving automorphisms of operator algebras on $D$-dimensional uniform lattices of prime $p$-dimensional qudits (QCA), specializing in those that are translation invariant (TI) and map every prime $p$-dimensional Pauli…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-20 Jeongwan Haah

One of the most promising routes towards fault-tolerant quantum computation utilizes topological quantum error correcting codes, such as the $\mathbb{Z}_2$ surface code. Logical qubits can be encoded in a variety of ways in the surface…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-11 Ali Lavasani , Maissam Barkeshli

In this work, we introduce constructions for non-Abelian qLDPC codes obtained by gauging transversal Clifford gates using measurement and feedback. In particular, we identify two qualitatively different approaches to gauging qLDPC codes to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Maine Christos , Chiu Fan Bowen Lo , Vedika Khemani , Rahul Sahay

Understanding the complexity of quantum states and circuits is a central challenge in quantum information science, with broad implications in many-body physics, high-energy physics and quantum learning theory. A common way to model the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Oxana Shaya , Zoë Holmes , Christoph Hirche , Armando Angrisani

In order to perform universal fault-tolerant quantum computation, one needs to implement a logical non-Clifford gate. Consequently, it is important to understand codes that implement such gates transversally. In this paper, we adopt an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-20 Narayanan Rengaswamy , Robert Calderbank , Michael Newman , Henry D. Pfister

Topological codes have many desirable properties that allow fault-tolerant quantum computation with relatively low overhead. A core challenge for these codes, however, is to achieve a low-overhead universal gate set with limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Julio C. Magdalena de la Fuente , Noa Feldman , Jens Eisert , Andreas Bauer