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Error correction code is a major part of the communication physical layer, ensuring the reliable transfer of data over noisy channels. Recently, neural decoders were shown to outperform classical decoding techniques. However, the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yoni Choukroun , Lior Wolf

A method to combine two quantum error-correcting codes is presented. Even when starting with additive codes, the resulting code might be non-additive. Furthermore, the notion of the erasure space is introduced which gives a full…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Markus Grassl , Thomas Beth

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 investigate the performance of a quantum error-correcting code when pushed beyond its intended capacity to protect information against errors, presenting formulae for the probability of failure when the errors affect more qudits than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Scott

A long-standing challenge in quantum error correction is the infeasibility of universal transversal gates, as shown by the Eastin-Knill theorem. We obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for a quantum code to have universal transversal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Pragati Gupta , Andrea Morello , Barry C. Sanders

Quantum computers have advanced rapidly in qubit count and gate fidelity. However, large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing still relies on quantum error correction code (QECC) to suppress noise. Manually or experimentally verifying the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Kean Chen , Yuhao Liu , Wang Fang , Jennifer Paykin , Xin-Chuan Wu , Albert Schmitz , Steve Zdancewic , Gushu Li

The leading long-distance 1-loop quantum corrections to the Coulomb potential are derived for scalar QED and their gauge-independence is explicitly checked. The potential is obtained from the direct calculation of the 2-particle scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Helayel-Neto , A. Penna-Firme , I. L. Shapiro

We show that the multiplicative domain of a completely positive map yields a new class of quantum error correcting codes. In the case of a unital quantum channel, these are precisely the codes that do not require a measurement as part of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Man-Duen Choi , Nathaniel Johnston , David W. Kribs

Topological quantum error correction codes are currently among the most promising candidates for efficiently dealing with the decoherence effects inherently present in quantum devices. Numerically, their theoretical error threshold can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Ruben S. Andrist , Helmut G. Katzgraber , H. Bombin , M. A. Martin-Delgado

The surface code represents a promising candidate for fault-tolerant quantum computation due to its high error threshold and experimental accessibility with nearest-neighbor interactions. However, current exact surface code threshold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 SiYing Wang , ZhiXin Xia , Yue Yan , Xiang-Bin Wang

We show that one of the Shor-Laflamme weight enumerators of a codeword stabilized quantum code may be interpreted as the distance enumerator of an associated classical code.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-16 Andrew Nemec , Andreas Klappenecker

Using 4-dimensional arithmetic hyperbolic manifolds, we construct some new homological quantum error correcting codes. They are LDPC codes with linear rate and distance $n^\epsilon$. Their rate is evaluated via Euler characteristic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Larry Guth , Alexander Lubotzky

We solve the fundamental quantum error correction problem for bi-unitary channels on two-qubit Hilbert space. By solving an algebraic compression problem, we construct qubit codes for such channels on arbitrary dimension Hilbert space, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Man-Duen Choi , David W. Kribs , Karol Zyczkowski

We derive bounds on general quantum error correcting codes against the displacement noise channel. The bounds limit the distances attainable by codes and also apply in an approximate setting. Our main result is a quantum analogue of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Ansgar G. Burchards

We extend the recently introduced notion of tensor enumerator to the circuit enumerator. We provide a mathematical framework that offers a novel method for analyzing circuits and error models without resorting to Monte Carlo techniques. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-31 Alon Kukliansky , Brad Lackey

We present a quantum error correcting code that is invariant under the conditional time evolution between spontaneous emissions and which can correct for one general error. The code presented here generalizes previous error correction codes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. B. Plenio , V. Vedral , P. L. Knight

A quantum error-correcting code is defined to be a unitary mapping (encoding) of k qubits (2-state quantum systems) into a subspace of the quantum state space of n qubits such that if any t of the qubits undergo arbitrary decoherence, not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 A. R. Calderbank , Peter W. Shor

I. This paper is devoted to the problem of error detection with quantum codes. In the first part we examine possible problem settings for quantum error detection. Our goal is to derive a functional that describes the probability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexei Ashikhmin , Alexander Barg , Emanuel Knill , Simon Litsyn

Fair threshold estimation for bivariate bicycle (BB) codes on the quantum erasure channel runs into two recurring problems: decoder-baseline unfairness and the conflation of finite-size pseudo-thresholds with true asymptotic thresholds. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Tushar Pandey

In adversarial settings, where attackers can deliberately and strategically corrupt quantum data, standard quantum error correction reaches its limits. It can only correct up to half the code distance and must output a unique answer.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Rahul Arvind , Nikhil Bansal , Dax Enshan Koh , Tobias Haug , Kishor Bharti