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Periodically-driven or Floquet systems can realize anomalous topological phenomena that do not exist in any equilibrium states of matter, whose classification and characterization require new theoretical ideas that are beyond the…

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Near-resonant periodic driving of quantum systems promises the implementation of a large variety of novel effective Hamiltonians. The challenge of Floquet engineering lies in the preparation and measurement of the desired quantum state. We…

The interplay between Floquet periodically driving and non-Hermiticity could bring about intriguing novel phenomena with anomalous Floquet topological phases of a finite-size, tight-binding lattice model. How to efficiently investigate on…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-04 Yifei Xia , Xiumei Wang , Yali Li , Xingping Zhou

The recent discoveries of higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) have shifted the paradigm of topological materials, which was previously limited to topological states at boundaries of materials, to those at boundaries of boundaries,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Weiwei Zhu , Haoran Xue , Jiangbin Gong , Yidong Chong , Baile Zhang

Coherent errors are a dominant noise process in many quantum computing architectures. Unlike stochastic errors, these errors can combine constructively and grow into highly detrimental overrotations. To combat this, we introduce a simple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Dripto Debroy , Muyuan Li , Michael Newman , Kenneth R. Brown

We develop a family of quantum accreditation protocols for quantum circuits with non-Clifford two-qubit gates. The latter includes families of gates such as the fSim and XY families of gates, native to existing hardwares. We provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Andrew Jackson , Theodoros Kapourniotis , Animesh Datta

The complete characterization of a generic $d$-dimensional Floquet topological phase is usually hard for the requirement of information about the micromotion throughout the entire driving period. In a recent work [L. Zhang et al., Phys.…

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Quantum computers hold the promise of solving computational problems which are intractable using conventional methods. For fault-tolerant operation quantum computers must correct errors occurring due to unavoidable decoherence and limited…

We introduce a natural generalization of staircase codes in which each bit is protected by arbitrarily many component codewords rather than two. This enables powerful energy-efficient FEC based on iterative decoding of Hamming components.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Mohannad Shehadeh , Frank R. Kschischang , Alvin Y. Sukmadji

Staircase codes (SCCs) are typically decoded using iterative bounded-distance decoding (BDD) and hard decisions. In this paper, a novel decoding algorithm is proposed, which partially uses soft information from the channel. The proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-05 Yi Lei , Alex Alvarado , Bin Chen , Xiong Deng , Zizheng Cao , Jianqiang Li , Kun Xu

We introduce simple qubit-encodings and logic gates which eliminate the need for certain difficult single-qubit operations in superconducting phase-qubits, while preserving universality. The simplest encoding uses two physical qubits per…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 Daniel A. Lidar , Lian-Ao Wu , Alexandre Blais

Two new qubit stabilizer codes with parameters $[77, 0, 19]_2$ and $[90, 0, 22]_2$ are constructed for the first time by employing additive symplectic self-dual $\F_4$ codes from multidimensional circulant (MDC) graphs. We completely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Padmapani Seneviratne , Hannah Cuff , Alexandra Koletsos , Kerry Seekamp , Adrian Thnanopavarn

Bosonic codes represent a promising route toward quantum error correction in continuous-variable systems, with direct relevance to experimental platforms such as circuit QED and optomechanics. However, their preparation and stabilization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Zheping Wu , Lingzhen Guo , Haobin Shi , Wei-Wei Zhang

The stabiliser formalism plays a central role in quantum computing, error correction, and fault tolerance. Conversions between and verifications of different specifications of stabiliser states and Clifford gates are important components of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-09 Nadish de Silva , Wilfred Salmon , Ming Yin

Two classes of turbo codes over high-order finite fields are introduced. The codes are derived from a particular protograph sub-ensemble of the (dv=2,dc=3) low-density parity-check code ensemble. A first construction is derived as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Gianluigi Liva , Enrico Paolini , Sandro Scalise , Marco Chiani

Characterizing time-periodic Hamiltonians is pivotal for validating and controlling driven quantum platforms, yet prevailing and unadjusted reconstruction methods demand dense time-domain sampling and heavy post-processing. We introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Keren Li

Fault-tolerant operations based on stabilizer codes are the state of the art in suppressing error rates in quantum computations. Most such codes do not permit a straightforward implementation of non-Clifford logical operations, which are…

Encoding quantum information in a quantum error correction (QEC) code offers protection against decoherence and enhances the fidelity of qubits and gate operations. One of the fundamental challenges of QEC is to construct codes with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Jasper Johannes Postema , Servaas J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans

We report the theoretical discovery and characterization of higher-order Floquet topological phases dynamically generated in a periodically driven system with mirror symmetries. We demonstrate numerically and analytically that these phases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Martin Rodriguez-Vega , Abhishek Kumar , Babak Seradjeh