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The Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) error correcting code encodes a finite dimensional logical space in one or more bosonic modes, and has recently been demonstrated in trapped ions and superconducting microwave cavities. In this work we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Mackenzie H. Shaw , Andrew C. Doherty , Arne L. Grimsmo

The existence of quantum error correcting codes is one of the most counterintuitive and potentially technologically important discoveries of quantum information theory. However, standard error correction refers to abstract quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Patrick Hayden , Sepehr Nezami , Sandu Popescu , Grant Salton

Quantum error correction and symmetry arise in many areas of physics, including many-body systems, metrology in the presence of noise, fault-tolerant computation, and holographic quantum gravity. Here we study the compatibility of these two…

We present a general approach to error detection of bosonic quantum error-correction codes via an adaptive quantum phase estimation algorithm assisted by a single ancilla qubit. The approach is applicable to a broad class of bosonic codes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Yuan-De Jin , Shi-Yu Zhang , Ulrik L. Andersen , Wen-Long Ma

A physical realization of self correcting quantum code would be profoundly useful for constructing a quantum computer. In this theoretical work, we provide a partial solution to major challenges preventing self correcting quantum code from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-01 Eliot Kapit , John T. Chalker , Steven H. Simon

Stabilization of encoded logical qubits using quantum error correction is key to the realization of reliable quantum computers. While qubit codes require many physical systems to be controlled, oscillator codes offer the possibility to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 Brennan de Neeve , Thanh Long Nguyen , Tanja Behrle , Jonathan Home

Noise is one of the central obstacles to building useful quantum computers, and quantum error correction (QEC) provides the framework for protecting quantum information against it. Unlike classical error correction, QEC must preserve…

Reliable quantum memory is essential for scalable quantum networks and fault-tolerant photonic quantum computing. We present a quantitative analysis of an all-optical quantum memory architecture in which a Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP)…

The GKP encoding is a top contender among bosonic codes for fault-tolerant quantum computation. Analysis of the GKP code is complicated by the fact that finite-energy code states leak out of the ideal GKP code space and are not orthogonal.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Mahnaz Jafarzadeh , Jonathan Conrad , Rafael N. Alexander , Ben Q. Baragiola

To use quantum systems for technological applications we first need to preserve their coherence for macroscopic timescales, even at finite temperature. Quantum error correction has made it possible to actively correct errors that affect a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-24 Benjamin J. Brown , Daniel Loss , Jiannis K. Pachos , Chris N. Self , James R. Wootton

Magic state distillation and injection is a promising strategy towards universal fault tolerant quantum computation, especially in architectures based on the bosonic Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) codes where non-Clifford gates remain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Jérémie Boudreault , Ross Shillito , Jean-Baptiste Bertrand , Baptiste Royer

Although the similarity between non-stabilizer states -- also known as magic states -- in discrete-variable systems and non-Gaussian states in continuous-variable systems has widely been recognized, the precise connections between these two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Oliver Hahn , Giulia Ferrini , Ryuji Takagi

We propose an error correction coding algorithm for continuous quantum variables. We use this algorithm to construct a highly efficient 5-wavepacket code which can correct arbitrary single wavepacket errors. We show that this class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Samuel L. Braunstein

The constituent parts of a quantum computer are inherently vulnerable to errors. To this end we have developed quantum error-correcting codes to protect quantum information from noise. However, discovering codes that are capable of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Benjamin J. Brown , Naomi H. Nickerson , Dan E. Browne

Continuous-Variable (CV) devices are a promising platform for demonstrating large-scale quantum information protocols. In this framework, we define a general quantum computational model based on a CV hardware. It consists of vacuum input…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Tom Douce , Damian Markham , Elham Kashefi , Peter van Loock , Giulia Ferrini

We describe new implementations of quantum error correction that are continuous in time, and thus described by continuous dynamical maps. We evaluate the performance of such schemes using numerical simulations, and comment on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mohan Sarovar , G. J. Milburn

The use of geometric and symmetry techniques in quantum and classical information processing has a long tradition across the physical sciences as a means of theoretical discovery and applied problem solving. In the modern era, the emergent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Elija Perrier

We propose a new scheme for quantum error correction using robust continuous variable probe modes, rather than fragile ancilla qubits, to detect errors without destroying data qubits. The use of such probe modes reduces the required number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fumiko Yamaguchi , Kae Nemoto , William J. Munro

Continuous-variable cluster states allow for fault-tolerant measurement-based quantum computing when used in tandem with the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) encoding of a qubit into a bosonic mode. For quad-rail-lattice macronode cluster…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Blayney W. Walshe , Rafael N. Alexander , Nicolas C. Menicucci , Ben Q. Baragiola

We realize a hardware-native time--frequency Gottesman--Kitaev--Preskill (GKP) logical qubit encoded in the continuous phase space of single photons, establishing a propagating photonic implementation of bosonic grid encoding. Finite-energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Tai Hyun Yoon