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Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Fabian Steiner , Steffen Dempfle , Amir Ingber , Tsachy Weissman

Scalable realisation of quantum computing is reliant on the development of fault tolerant devices. Analysis of quantum error correction protocols typically considers incoherent noise models or noise-free syndrome measurements. While this is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Ben Harper , Azar C. Nakhl , Martin Sevior , Muhammad Usman

We utilize the symmetry groups of regular tessellations on two-dimensional surfaces of different constant curvatures, including spheres, Euclidean planes and hyperbolic planes, to encode a qubit or qudit into the physical degrees of freedom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Yixu Wang , Yijia Xu , Zi-Wen Liu

We describe two implementations of the optimal error correction algorithm known as the maximum likelihood decoder (MLD) for the 2D surface code with a noiseless syndrome extraction. First, we show how to implement MLD exactly in time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 Sergey Bravyi , Martin Suchara , Alexander Vargo

Point containment queries on trimmed surfaces are fundamental to CAD modeling, solid geometry processing, and surface tessellation. Existing approaches such as ray casting and generalized winding numbers often face limitations in robustness…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Anchang Bao , Enya Shen , Jianmin Wang

The fragile nature of quantum information limits our ability to construct large quantities of quantum bits suitable for quantum computing. An important goal, therefore, is to minimize the amount of resources required to implement quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-11 Adam Paetznick , Austin G. Fowler

Surface codes are quantum error correcting codes normally defined on 2D arrays of qubits. In this paper, we introduce a surface code design based on the fact that the severity of bit flip and phase flip errors in the physical quantum…

Parallel tensor network contraction algorithms have emerged as the pivotal benchmarks for assessing the classical limits of computation, exemplified by Google's demonstration of quantum supremacy through random circuit sampling. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Jin Lee , Sofia Gonzalez-Garcia , Zheng Zhang , Haewon Jeong

The surface code is one of the most popular quantum error correction codes. It comes with efficient decoders, such as the Minimum Weight Perfect Matching (MWPM) decoder and the Union-Find (UF) decoder, allowing for fast quantum error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Nicolas Delfosse , Adam Paetznick , Jeongwan Haah , Matthew B. Hastings

This paper reports the investigations done to adapt the Characteristic Boundary Conditions (CBC) to the Lattice-Boltzmann formalism for high Reynolds number applications. Three CBC formalisms are implemented and tested in an open source LBM…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-27 Gauthier Wissocq , Nicolas Gourdain , Orestis Malaspinas , Alexandre Eyssartier

As the leading candidate of quantum error correction codes, surface code suffers from significant overhead, such as execution time. Reducing the circuit's execution time not only enhances its execution efficiency but also improves fidelity.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Mingzheng Zhu , Hao Fu , Jun Wu , Chi Zhang , Wei Xie , Xiang-Yang Li

Existing real-time decoders for surface codes are limited to isolated logical qubits and do not support logical operations involving multiple logical qubits. We present DECONET, a first-of-its-kind decoding system that scales to thousands…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Namitha Liyanage , Yue Wu , Emmet Houghton , Lin Zhong

Quantum computing is currently strongly limited by the impact of noise, in particular introduced by the application of two-qubit gates. For this reason, reducing the number of two-qubit gates is of paramount importance on noisy…

Topological codes have many desirable properties that allow fault-tolerant quantum computation with relatively low overhead. A core challenge for these codes, however, is to achieve a low-overhead universal gate set with limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Julio C. Magdalena de la Fuente , Noa Feldman , Jens Eisert , Andreas Bauer

We consider realistic, multi-parameter error models and investigate the performance of the surface code for three possible fault-tolerant superconducting quantum computer architectures. We map amplitude and phase damping to a diagonal Pauli…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-21 Joydip Ghosh , Austin G. Fowler , Michael R. Geller

The surface code is one of the leading quantum error correction codes for realizing large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC). One major challenge in realizing surface-code-based FTQC is the extremely large number of qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Kohei Fujiu , Shota Nagayama , Shin Nishio , Hideaki Kawaguchi , Takahiko Satoh

We propose a simplified version of the Kitaev's surface code in which error correction requires only three-qubit parity measurements for Pauli operators XXX and ZZZ. The new code belongs to the class of subsystem stabilizer codes. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-19 Sergey Bravyi , Guillaume Duclos-Cianci , David Poulin , Martin Suchara

Physical-layer network coding (PNC) is a communications paradigm that exploits overlapped transmissions to boost the throughput of wireless relay networks. A high point of PNC research was a theoretical proof that PNC that makes use of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Yihua Tan , Soung Chang Liew , Tao Huang

Future quantum computers will require quantum error correction for faithful operation. The correction capabilities come with an overhead for performing fault-tolerant logical operations on the encoded qubits. One of the most resource…

We propose a two-layer coding architecture for communication of multiple users over a shared slotted medium enabling joint collision resolution and decoding. Each user first encodes its information bits with an outer code for reliability,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-18 MohammadReza Ebrahimi , Farshad Lahouti , Victoria Kostina