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Quantum error correction is essential for achieving fault-tolerant quantum computing. Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) codes are particularly effective at correcting continuous noise, such as Gaussian noise and loss, and can significantly…

We review some of the recent efforts in devising and engineering bosonic qubits for superconducting devices, with emphasis on the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) qubit. We present some new results on decoding repeated GKP error correction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-08 Barbara M. Terhal , Jonathan Conrad , Christophe Vuillot

In order to achieve fault-tolerant quantum computing, we make use of quantum error correction schemes designed to protect the logical information of the system from decoherence. A promising way to preserve such information is to use the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Marc-Antoine Roy , Thomas Pousset , Baptiste Royer

The Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) code is an important type of bosonic quantum error-correcting code. Since the GKP code only protects against small shift errors in $\hat{p}$ and $\hat{q}$ quadratures, it is necessary to concatenate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Jiaxuan Zhang , Jian Zhao , Yu-Chun Wu , Guo-Ping Guo

The Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) code, being information theoretically near optimal for quantum communication over Gaussian thermal-loss optical channels, is likely to be the encoding of choice for advanced quantum networks of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Mohadeseh Azari , Paul Polakos , Kaushik P. Seshadreesan

To be useful, quantum computers will be required to successfully correct errors occurring at the hardware level. Bosonic codes provide a hardware-efficient option for error correction, but fault-tolerance further requires that the available…

Quantum repeaters are a promising platform for realizing long-distance quantum communication and thus could form the backbone of a secure quantum internet, a scalable quantum network, or a distributed quantum computer. Repeater protocols…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-09 Kosuke Fukui , Rafael N. Alexander , Peter van Loock

Concatenation of a bosonic code with a qubit code is one of the promising ways to achieve fault-tolerant quantum computation. As one of the most important bosonic codes, Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) code is proposed to correct small…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-04 Zhifei Li , Daiqin Su

GKP states, introduced by Gottesman, Kitaev, and Preskill, are continuous variable logical qubits that can be corrected for errors caused by phase space displacements. Their experimental realization is challenging, in particular using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-09 Éloi Descamps , Arne Keller , Pérola Milman

The Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) code is an exciting route to fault-tolerant quantum computing since Gaussian resources and GKP Pauli-eigenstate preparation are sufficient to achieve universal quantum computing. In this work, we provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Mackenzie H. Shaw , Andrew C. Doherty , Arne L. Grimsmo

Continuous-variable measurement-based quantum computation, which requires deterministically generated large-scale cluster state, is a promising candidate for practical, scalable, universal, and fault-tolerant quantum computation. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Peilin Du , Jing Zhang , Tiancai Zhang , Rongguo Yang , Jiangrui Gao

Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) states are a central resource for fault-tolerant optical continuous-variable quantum computing and communication. However, their realization in the optical domain remains to be demonstrated. Here we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 Jacob Hastrup , Ulrik L. Andersen

We propose a quantum error correction protocol for continuous-variable finite-energy, approximate Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) states undergoing small Gaussian random displacement errors, based on the scheme of Glancy and Knill [Phys.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Kwok Ho Wan , Alex Neville , W. S. Kolthammer

Hilbert space dimension is a key resource for quantum information processing. A large Hilbert space is not only an essential requirement for quantum error correction, but it can also be advantageous for realizing gates and algorithms more…

Graph states are a central resource in measurement-based quantum information processing. In the photonic qubit architecture based on Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) encoding, the generation of high-fidelity graph states composed of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Kaushik P. Seshadreesan , Prajit Dhara , Ashlesha Patil , Liang Jiang , Saikat Guha

The Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) encoding of a qubit within an oscillator provides a number of advantages when used in a fault-tolerant architecture for quantum computing, most notably that Gaussian operations suffice to implement all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-09 Keith R. Motes , Ben Q. Baragiola , Alexei Gilchrist , Nicolas C. Menicucci

Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) qubits, known for their exceptional error-correction capabilities, are highly coveted in quantum computing. However, generating optical GKP qubits has been a significant challenge. Measurement-based methods,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-06 Andrew J. Pizzimenti , Daniel Soh

Quantum error correction (QEC) plays an essential role in fault-tolerantly realizing quantum algorithms of practical interest. Among different approaches to QEC, encoding logical quantum information in harmonic oscillator modes has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Mao Lin , Christopher Chamberland , Kyungjoo Noh

Continuous-variable quantum computing architectures based upon the Gottesmann-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) encoding have emerged as a promising candidate because one can achieve fault-tolerance with a probabilistic supply of GKP states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Matthew P. Stafford , Nicolas C. Menicucci

To implement fault-tolerant quantum computation with continuous variables, Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) qubits have been recognized as an important technological element. However, the analog outcome of GKP qubits, which includes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-13 Kosuke Fukui , Akihisa Tomita , Atsushi Okamoto