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We propose the X$^3$Z$^3$ Floquet code, a dynamical code with improved performance under biased noise compared to other Floquet codes. The enhanced performance is attributed to a simplified decoding problem resulting from a persistent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 F. Setiawan , Campbell McLauchlan

The Bacon-Shor code is a quantum error correcting subsystem code composed of weight 2 check operators that admits a single logical qubit, and has distance $d$ on a $d \times d$ square lattice. We show that when viewed as a Floquet code, by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 M. Sohaib Alam , Eleanor Rieffel

The Floquet code utilizes a periodic sequence of two-qubit measurements to realize the topological order. After each measurement round, the instantaneous stabilizer group can be mapped to a honeycomb toric code, explaining the topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 DinhDuy Vu , Ali Lavasani , Jong Yeon Lee , Matthew P. A. Fisher

Dynamical stabilizer codes may offer a practical route to large-scale quantum computation. Such codes are defined by a schedule of error-detecting measurements, which allows for flexibility in their construction. In this work, we ask how…

Floquet codes define fault-tolerant protocols through periodic measurement sequences that drive a dynamically evolving stabilizer group. They provide a natural framework for hardware supporting two-qubit parity measurements but no unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Shoham Jacoby , Alex Retzker , Fernando Pastawski

Floquet codes are an intriguing generalisation of stabiliser and subsystem codes, which can provide good fault-tolerant characteristics while benefiting from reduced connectivity requirements in hardware. A recent question of interest has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Campbell McLauchlan , György P. Gehér , Alexandra E. Moylett

Dynamic quantum circuits integrate unitary evolution with mid-circuit measurement and feedforward, enabling conditional operations essential for efficient quantum algorithms and foundational for fault-tolerant quantum computation. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Christopher Tong , Liran Shirizly , Edward H. Chen , Derek S. Wang , Bibek Pokharel

Logical qubits can be protected against environmental noise by encoding them into a highly entangled state of many physical qubits and actively intervening in the dynamics with stabilizer measurements. In this work, we numerically optimize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Áron Márton , János K. Asbóth

We propose a new class of error-correcting dynamic codes in two and three dimensions that has no explicit connection to any parent subsystem code. The two-dimensional code, which we call the CSS honeycomb code, is geometrically similar to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-26 Margarita Davydova , Nathanan Tantivasadakarn , Shankar Balasubramanian

The majority of quantum error detection and correction protocols assume that the population in a qubit does not leak outside of its computational subspace. For many existing approaches, however, the physical qubits do possess more than two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 Joydip Ghosh , Austin G. Fowler , John M. Martinis , Michael R. Geller

Quantum error-correcting codes, such as subspace, subsystem, and Floquet codes, are typically constructed within the stabilizer formalism, which does not fully capture the idea of fault-tolerance needed for practical quantum computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Peter-Jan H. S. Derks , Alex Townsend-Teague , Ansgar G. Burchards , Jens Eisert

Quantum error correction (QEC) is considered a deciding component in enabling practical quantum computing. Stabilizer codes, and in particular topological surface codes, are promising candidates for implementing QEC by redundantly encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Josias Old , Stephan Tasler , Michael J. Hartmann , Markus Müller

The execution of quantum circuits on real systems has largely been limited to those which are simply time-ordered sequences of unitary operations followed by a projective measurement. As hardware platforms for quantum computing continue to…

In dynamic quantum circuits, classical information from mid-circuit measurements is fed forward during circuit execution. This emerging capability of quantum computers confers numerous advantages that can enable more efficient and powerful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 Elisa Bäumer , Vinay Tripathi , Alireza Seif , Daniel Lidar , Derek S. Wang

In this paper, we describe and experimentally demonstrate an error detection scheme that does not employ ancilla qubits or mid-circuit measurements. This is achieved by expanding the Hilbert space where a single logical qubit is encoded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Nicolas J. Guerrero , David E. Weeks

Quantum computing is an emerging technology that has the potential to achieve exponential speedups over their classical counterparts. To achieve quantum advantage, quantum principles are being applied to fields such as communications,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Arijit Mondal , Keshab K. Parhi

Superconducting qubits, while promising for scalability and long coherence times, contain more than two energy levels, and therefore are susceptible to errors generated by the leakage of population outside of the computational subspace.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-23 Joydip Ghosh , Austin G. Fowler

Despite the rapid development of quantum computing these years, state-of-the-art quantum devices still contain only a very limited number of qubits. One possible way to execute more realistic algorithms in near-term quantum devices is to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Xin Hong , Yuan Feng , Sanjiang Li , Mingsheng Ying

Quantum error-correcting codes are a vital technology for demonstrating reliable quantum computation. They require data qubits for encoding quantum information and ancillary qubits for taking error syndromes necessary for error correction.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Shintaro Sato , Yasunari Suzuki

Dynamic circuit operations -- measurements with feedforward -- are important components for future quantum computing efforts, but lag behind gates in the availability of characterization methods. Here we introduce a series of dynamic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Liran Shirizly , Luke C. G. Govia , David C. McKay