English
Related papers

Related papers: No physics required! A visual-based introduction t…

200 papers

Long distance quantum communication will require the use of quantum repeaters to overcome the exponential attenuation of signal with distance. One class of such repeaters utilizes quantum error correction to overcome losses in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Filip Rozpędek , Kaushik P. Seshadreesan , Paul Polakos , Liang Jiang , Saikat Guha

This is an expository article aiming to introduce the reader to the underlying mathematics and geometry of quantum error correction. Information stored on quantum particles is subject to noise and interference from the environment. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Simeon Ball , Aina Centelles , Felix Huber

We give an introduction to the theory of quantum error correction using stabilizer codes that is geared towards the working computer scientists and mathematicians with an interest in exploring this area. To this end, we begin with an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Zachary P. Bradshaw , Jeffrey J. Dale , Ethan N. Evans

In the field of fault-tolerant quantum computing, continuous-variable systems can be utilized to protect quantum information from noise through the use of bosonic codes. These codes map qubit-type quantum information onto the larger bosonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Yu Zheng , Alessandro Ferraro , Anton Frisk Kockum , Giulia Ferrini

Quantum information platforms made great progress in the control of many-body entanglement and the implementation of quantum error correction, but it remains a challenge to realize both in the same setup. Here, we propose a mixture of two…

Bosonic quantum error correction codes encode logical qubits in the Hilbert space of one or multiple harmonic oscillators. A prominent class of bosonic codes is that of Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) codes of which implementations have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Leon H. Bohnmann , David F. Locher , Johannes Zeiher , Markus Müller

Quantum kernel methods (QKMs) have emerged as a prominent framework for supervised quantum machine learning. Unlike variational quantum algorithms, which rely on gradient-based optimisation and may suffer from issues such as barren…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 John Tanner , Chon-Fai Kam , Jingbo Wang

Bosonic quantum error correction is a viable option for realizing error-corrected quantum information processing in continuous-variable bosonic systems. Various single-mode bosonic quantum error-correcting codes such as cat, binomial, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 Kyungjoo Noh , Christopher Chamberland

GKP codes encode a qubit in displaced phase space combs of a continuous-variable (CV) quantum system and are useful for correcting a variety of high-weight photonic errors. Here we propose atomic ensemble analogues of the single-mode CV GKP…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Sivaprasad Omanakuttan , T. J. Volkoff

Quantum error correction is important to quantum information processing, which allows us to reliably process information encoded in quantum error correction codes. Efficient quantum error correction benefits from the knowledge of error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-12 Ming-Xia Huo , Ying Li

An outstanding challenge for quantum information processing using bosonic systems is Gaussian errors such as excitation loss and added thermal noise errors. Thus, bosonic quantum error correction (QEC) is essential. Most bosonic QEC schemes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Kyungjoo Noh , S. M. Girvin , Liang Jiang

Active quantum error correction using qubit stabilizer codes has emerged as a promising, but experimentally challenging, engineering program for building a universal quantum computer. In this review we consider the formalism of qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-13 Barbara M. Terhal

Quantum error correction codes in continuous variables (also called CV codes, or single-mode bosonic codes) have recently been identified to be a technologically viable option for building fault-tolerant quantum computers. The best-known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Allan D. C. Tosta , Thiago O. Maciel , Leandro Aolita

The Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) error correcting code uses a bosonic mode to encode a logical qubit, and has the attractive property that its logical Clifford gates can be implemented using Gaussian unitary gates. In contrast, a direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Minh T. P. Nguyen , Mackenzie H. Shaw

Continuous-variable cluster states (CVCSs) can be supplemented with Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) states to form a hybrid cluster state with the power to execute universal, fault-tolerant quantum computing in a measurement-based fashion.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-09 Giacomo Pantaleoni , Ben Q. Baragiola , Nicolas C. Menicucci

Continuous-variable bosonic systems stand as prominent candidates for implementing quantum computational tasks. While various necessary criteria have been established to assess their resourcefulness, sufficient conditions have remained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Cameron Calcluth , Nicolas Reichel , Alessandro Ferraro , Giulia Ferrini

The Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) code may be used to overcome noise in continuous variable quantum systems. However, preparing GKP states remains experimentally challenging. We propose a method for preparing GKP states by engineering a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Xanda C. Kolesnikow , Raditya Weda Bomantara , Andrew C. Doherty , Arne L. Grimsmo

Proving threshold theorems for fault-tolerant quantum computation is a burdensome endeavor with many moving parts that come together in relatively formulaic but lengthy ways. It is difficult and rare to combine elements from multiple papers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Zhiyang He , Quynh T. Nguyen , Christopher A. Pattison

The quantum computing devices of today have tens to hundreds of qubits that are highly susceptible to noise due to unwanted interactions with their environment. The theory of quantum error correction provides a scheme by which the effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 Akshaya Jayashankar , Prabha Mandayam

Quantum error-correcting codes are constructed that embed a finite-dimensional code space in the infinite-dimensional Hilbert space of a system described by continuous quantum variables. These codes exploit the noncommutative geometry of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Daniel Gottesman , Alexei Kitaev , John Preskill