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Fault-tolerant syndrome extraction is a key ingredient in implementing fault-tolerant quantum computations. While conventional methods use a number of extra qubits linear in the weight of the syndrome, several improvements have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Benjamin Anker , Milad Marvian

We discuss single-shot decoding of quantum Calderbank-Shor-Steane codes with faulty syndrome measurements. We state the problem as a joint source-channel coding problem. By adding redundant rows to the code's parity-check matrix we obtain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Aldo Cumitini , Stefano Tinelli , Balázs Matuz , Francisco Lázaro , Luca Barletta

A fault-tolerant error correction (FTEC) protocol with a high error suppression rate and low overhead is very desirable for the near-term implementation of quantum computers. In this work, we develop a distance-preserving flag FTEC protocol…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Balint Pato , Theerapat Tansuwannont , Kenneth R. Brown

This work presents a generalized period decomposition approach, significantly improving the practical reliability of Shor's quantum factoring algorithm. Although Shor's algorithm theoretically enables polynomial-time integer factorization,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Chih-Chen Liao , Chia-Hsin Liu , Yun-Cheng Tsai

We study a class of gauge fixings of the Bacon-Shor code at the circuit level, which includes a subfamily of generalized surface codes. We show that for these codes, fault tolerance can be achieved by direct measurements of the stabilizers.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Shilin Huang , Kenneth R. Brown

In this paper we consider splitting methods for nonlinear ordinary differential equations in which one of the (partial) flows that results from the splitting procedure can not be computed exactly. Instead, we insert a well-chosen state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-27 Lukas Einkemmer , Alexander Ostermann

Quantum error correction (QEC) entails the encoding of quantum information into a QEC code space, measuring error syndromes to properly locate and identify errors, and, if necessary, applying a proper recovery operation. Here we compare…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Yaakov S. Weinstein

Shor's algorithm is one of the most prominent quantum algorithms, yet finding efficient implementations remains an active research challenge. While many approaches focus on low-level modular arithmetic optimizations, a broader perspective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Moritz Schmidt , Abhoy Kole , Leon Wichette , Rolf Drechsler , Frank Kirchner , Elie Mounzer

The error correcting capabilities of the Calderbank-Shor-Steane [[7,1,3]] quantum code, together with a fault-tolerant syndrome extraction by means of several ancilla states, have been numerically studied. A simple probability expression to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pedro J. Salas

We introduce a fault-tolerant protocol for code concatenation of a generalized Shor code using a butterfly network architecture with high noise thresholds and low ancilla overhead to allow implementation on current devices. We develop a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Grace M. Sommers , Michael Foss-Feig , David Hayes , David A. Huse , Michael J. Gullans

We demonstrate that small quantum memories, realized via quantum error correction in multi-qubit devices, can benefit substantially by choosing a quantum code that is tailored to the relevant error model of the system. For a biased noise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-11 Alan Robertson , Christopher Granade , Stephen D. Bartlett , Steven T. Flammia

The integration of quantum error correction codes and homomorphic encryption schemes is essential for achieving fault-tolerant secure cloud quantum computing. However, owing to the significant overheads associated with these schemes, their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 IlKwon Sohn , Boseon Kim , Kwangil Bae , Wonhyuk Lee

Logical T state preparation is a major overhead source in fault tolerant architectures built from stabilizer operations. Existing protocols, however, are reported under different code families, noise models, postselection rules, and cost…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Jianshuo Gao , Xiao Yuan , Yuan Yao

In this paper we introduce a general fault-tolerant quantum error correction protocol using flag circuits for measuring stabilizers of arbitrary distance codes. In addition to extending flag error correction beyond distance-three codes for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-09 Christopher Chamberland , Michael E. Beverland

Quantum algorithms face significant challenges due to qubit susceptibility to environmental noise, and quantum error correction typically requires prohibitive resource overhead. This paper proposes that quantum algorithms may possess…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Fusheng Yang , Zhipeng Liang , Zhengzhong Yi , Xuan Wang

Syndrome extraction in the planar color code is complicated by high weight stabilizers and hook errors that can reduce the circuit-level distance. With a single auxiliary qubit per plaquette, any spatially uniform circuit halves the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Gilad Kishony , Austin Fowler

In this work, we study quantum error-correcting codes obtained by using Steane-enlargement. We apply this technique to certain codes defined from Cartesian products previously considered by Galindo et al. in [4]. We give bounds on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-26 René Bødker Christensen , Olav Geil

We investigate the performance of two quantum error-correcting codes, the surface code and the Bacon-Shor code, for implementation with spin qubits in silicon. In each case, we construct a logical qubit using a planar array of quantum dots,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Mauricio Gutiérrez , Juan S. Rojas-Arias , David Obando , Chien-Yuan Chang

Quantum error correction protects fragile quantum information by encoding it into a larger quantum system. These extra degrees of freedom enable the detection and correction of errors, but also increase the operational complexity of the…

We propose a scheme that converts a stabilizer code into another stabilizer code in a fault tolerant manner. The scheme first puts both codes in specific forms, and proceeds the conversion from a source code to a target code by applying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 Yongsoo Hwang , Byung-Soo Choi , Young-chai Ko , Jun Heo