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The surface code is a promising candidate for fault-tolerant quantum computation and has been implemented in many quantum hardware platforms. In this work, we propose a new non-local unitary circuit to encode a surface code state based on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Pei-Kai Tsai , Shruti Puri

In fault-tolerant quantum computation, the preparation of logical states is a ubiquitous subroutine, yet significant challenges persist even for the simplest states required. In the present work, we present a unitary, scalable,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Luis Colmenarez , Remmy Zen , Jan Olle , Florian Marquardt , Markus Müller

The surface code is the most studied error-correcting code thanks to its high threshold, simple decoding, and locality in two dimensions (2D). A key component of any code is its encoding circuit, which maps an unencoded state to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Jahan Claes

Surface codes are a promising method of quantum error correction and the basis of many proposed quantum computation implementations. However, their efficient decoding is still not fully explored. Recently, approaches based on machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Thomas Wagner , Hermann Kampermann , Dagmar Bruß

Surface codes are one of the most important topological stabilizer codes in the theory of quantum error correction. In this paper, we provide an efficient way to obtain surface codes through Measurement-based quantum computation (MBQC)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Priyam Srivastava , Vaibhav Katyal , Ankur Raina

Number-conserved subspace encoding reduces resources needed for quantum simulations, but scalable complexity trade-off bounds for $M$ modes and $N$ particles with $\mathcal{O}(N\log M)$ qubits have remained unknown. We study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 M. H. Cheng , Yu-Cheng Chen , Qian Wang , V. Bartsch , M. S. Kim , Alice Hu , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

We introduce a framework which allows to systematically and arbitrarily scale the code distance of local fermion-to-qubit encodings in one and two dimensions without growing the weights of stabilizers. This is achieved by embedding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Manuel G. Algaba , Miha Papič , Inés de Vega , Alessio Calzona , Fedor Šimkovic

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 study how well topological quantum codes can tolerate coherent noise caused by systematic unitary errors such as unwanted $Z$-rotations. Our main result is an efficient algorithm for simulating quantum error correction protocols based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-01 Sergey Bravyi , Matthias Englbrecht , Robert Koenig , Nolan Peard

We study exact decoding for the toric code and for planar and rotated surface codes under the standard independent \(X/Z\) noise model, focusing on Separate Minimum Weight (SMW) decoding and Separate Most Likely Coset (SMLC) decoding. For…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Louay Bazzi

We consider the problem of preparing specific encoded resource states for the toric code by local, time-independent interactions with a memoryless environment. We propose a construction of such a dissipative encoder which converts product…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 John Dengis , Robert Koenig , Fernando Pastawski

In recent years, surface codes have become a leading method for quantum error correction in theoretical large scale computational and communications architecture designs. Their comparatively high fault-tolerant thresholds and their natural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-21 Dominic Horsman , Austin G. Fowler , Simon Devitt , Rodney Van Meter

A linear error correcting code is a subspace of a finite-dimensional space over a finite field with a fixed coordinate system. Such a code is said to be locally recoverable with locality $r$ if, for every coordinate, its value at a codeword…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Cecília Salgado , Anthony Várilly-Alvarado , José Felipe Voloch

A quantum error correcting protocol can be substantially improved by taking into account features of the physical noise process. We present an efficient decoder for the surface code which can account for general noise features, including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Andrew S. Darmawan , David Poulin

The surface code is designed to suppress errors in quantum computing hardware and currently offers the most believable pathway to large-scale quantum computation. The surface code requires a 2-D array of nearest-neighbor coupled qubits that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-04 Austin G. Fowler

The surface code is a promising platform for a quantum memory, but its threshold under coherent errors remains incompletely understood. We study maximum-likelihood decoding of the square-lattice surface code in the presence of single-qubit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-05 Stephen W. Yan , Yimu Bao , Sagar Vijay

We describe a space-time optimized circuit for the table lookup subroutine from lattice-surgery surface code primitives respecting 2D grid connectivity. Table lookup circuits are ubiquitous in quantum computing, allowing the presented…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Thomas Häner , Vadym Kliuchnikov , Martin Roetteler , Mathias Soeken

The fragile nature of quantum information limits our ability to construct large quantities of quantum bits suitable for quantum computing. An important goal, therefore, is to minimize the amount of resources required to implement quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-11 Adam Paetznick , Austin G. Fowler

Simulating a fermionic system on a quantum computer requires encoding the anti-commuting fermionic variables into the operators acting on the qubit Hilbert space. The most familiar of which, the Jordan-Wigner transformation, encodes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-25 Riley W. Chien , James D. Whitfield

The surface code is a quantum error-correcting code for one logical qubit, protected by spatially localized parity checks in two dimensions. Due to fundamental constraints from spatial locality, storing more logical qubits requires either…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Yifan Hong , Matteo Marinelli , Adam M. Kaufman , Andrew Lucas
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