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We investigate cat codes that can correct multiple excitation losses and identify two types of logical errors: bit-flip errors due to excessive excitation loss and dephasing errors due to quantum back-action from the environment. We show…

Quantum synchronizable codes are kinds of quantum error-correcting codes that can not only correct the effects of quantum noise on qubits but also the misalignment in block synchronization. In this paper, the quantum synchronizable codes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Tao Wang , Tongjiang Yan , Xueting Wang

Quantum error correction and symmetries play central roles in quantum information science and physics. It is known that quantum error-correcting codes that obey (are covariant with respect to) continuous symmetries in a certain sense cannot…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Linghang Kong , Zi-Wen Liu

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

Quantum error correction (QEC) is indispensable for scalable quantum computing, but implementing it with minimal hardware overhead remains a central challenge. Large spin systems with collective degrees of freedom offer a promising route to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Charlotte Franke , Dorian A. Gangloff

Quantum repeaters that incorporate quantum error correction codes have been shown to be a promising alternative compared with the original quantum repeaters that rely upon probabilistic quantum error detection depending on classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Stefan Häussler , Peter van Loock

Quantum computing holds the promise of solving classically intractable problems. Enabling this requires scalable and hardware-efficient quantum processors with vanishing error rates. This perspective manuscript describes how bosonic codes,…

This paper investigates the design of low-complexity error correction codes for the verification step in continuous variable quantum key distribution (CVQKD) systems. We design new coding schemes based on quasi-cyclic repeat-accumulate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Sarah J. Johnson , Vikram A. Chandrasetty , Andrew M. Lance

Robust continuous-variable (CV) quantum information processing requires correcting realistic errors in bosonic systems, but all existing schemes rely on auxiliary Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) states which the preparation and operation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Negin Razian , En-Jui Chang , Hoi-Kwan Lau

Hybrid continuous-variable--discrete-variable (CV--DV) architectures process quantum information in bosonic modes and qubits, but noise limits their performance. To reduce the noise, existing DV error correction must be complemented by CV…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Mohammad Nobakht , Ivan Kassal

Realizing a large-scale quantum computer requires hardware platforms that can simultaneously achieve universality, scalability, and fault tolerance. As a viable pathway to meeting these requirements, quantum computation based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Kosuke Fukui , Shuntaro Takeda

Concatenated coding provides a general strategy to achieve the desired level of noise protection in quantum information storage and transmission. We report the implementation of a concatenated quantum error-correcting code able to correct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nicolas Boulant , Lorenza Viola , Evan M. Fortunato , David G. Cory

We examine general Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) codes for continuous-variable quantum error correction, including concatenated GKP codes, through the lens of lattice theory, in order to better understand the structure of this class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-14 Jonathan Conrad , Jens Eisert , Francesco Arzani

The cat code is a promising encoding scheme for bosonic quantum error correction as it allows for correction against losses--the dominant error mechanism in most bosonic systems. However, for losses to be detected efficiently without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-30 Jacob Hastrup , Ulrik Lund Andersen

Concatenating bosonic error-correcting codes with qubit codes can substantially boost the error-correcting power of the original qubit codes. It is not clear how to concatenate optimally, given there are several bosonic codes and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Yijia Xu , Yixu Wang , En-Jui Kuo , Victor V. Albert

Given some group $G$ of logical gates, for instance the Clifford group, what are the quantum encodings for which these logical gates can be implemented by simple physical operations, described by some physical representation of $G$? We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Aurélie Denys , Anthony Leverrier

Quantum synchronizable codes are quantum error-correcting codes designed to correct the effects of both quantum noise and block synchronization errors. While it is known that quantum synchronizable codes can be constructed from cyclic codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-19 Yixuan Xie , Jinhong Yuan , Yuichiro Fujiwara

Quantum synchronizable error-correcting codes are special quantum error-correcting codes that are designed to correct both the effect of quantum noise on qubits and misalignment in block synchronization. It is known that in principle such a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-17 Yuichiro Fujiwara , Peter Vandendriessche

Continuous variable (CV) quantum computation offers an alternative to qubit-based computing by exploiting the infinite-dimensional Hilbert space of bosonic modes. Despite recent progress, superconducting platforms have yet to demonstrate a…

With the significance of continuous-variable quantum computing increasing thanks to the achievements of light-based quantum hardware, making it available to learner audiences outside physics has been an important yet seldom-tackled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Richard A. Wolf , Pavithran Iyer