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Bosonic quantum computing with near-term devices and beyond

Quantum Physics 2025-12-18 v1

Abstract

(Abridged.) This thesis investigates scalable fault-tolerant quantum computation through the development of bosonic quantum codes, quantum LDPC codes, and decoding protocols that connect continuous-variable and discrete-variable error correction. We investigate superconducting microwave implementations of continuous-variable quantum computing, including the deterministic generation of cubic phase states, and introduce the dissipatively stabilized squeezed cat qubit, a noise-biased bosonic encoding with enhanced error suppression and faster gates. The performance of rotation-symmetric and GKP codes is analyzed under realistic noise and measurement models, revealing key trade-offs in measurement-based schemes. To integrate bosonic codes into larger architectures, we develop decoding methods that exploit analog syndrome information, enabling quasi-single-shot decoding in concatenated systems. On the discrete-variable side, we introduce localized statistics decoding, a highly parallelizable decoder for quantum LDPC codes, and propose quantum radial codes, a new family of single-shot LDPC codes with low overhead and strong circuit-level performance. Finally, we present fault complexes, a homological framework for analyzing faults in dynamic quantum error correction protocols. Extending the role of homology in static CSS codes, fault complexes provide a general language for the design and analysis of fault-tolerant schemes.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2512.15063,
  title  = {Bosonic quantum computing with near-term devices and beyond},
  author = {Timo Hillmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.15063},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

PhD thesis, 101 pages, some typos corrected over https://research.chalmers.se/publication/544855

R2 v1 2026-07-01T08:28:30.997Z